Jen Wendland:
CLASS OF 2009
Wartburg CollegeClass of 2009
Waverly, IA
Jen's Story
Jen is from Little Canada, Minnesota. Jen's schools include Wartburg College. Jen later attended Wartburg College (International Relations) . Jen works(ed) at Whittier Alliance, Wartburg College.
Music Jen likes includes Sleep Fast Stereo, Deerhoof, The Pixies. Books Jen likes include Sound, Light and Breath - A Mindful Approach to Practice and Performance, The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros. Movies Jen likes include Lost in Translation, Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. TV shows Jen likes include Death Note, Pushing Daisies, The Office.
One of Jen's favorite quotes is:""Neoliberalism works best when there is a formal electoral democracy, but when the population is diverted from the information, access, and public forums necessary for meaningful participation in decision making. As neoliberal guru Milton Friedman put it in his *Capitalism and Freedom*, because profit-making is the essence of democracy, any government that pursues antimarket policies is being undemocratic, no matter how much informed popular support they might enjoy. Therefore it is best to restrict governments to the job of pro...Expand for more
tecting private property and enforcing contracts, and to limit political debate on minor issues. (The real matters of resource production and distribution and social organization should be determined by market forces.)"
--Robert McChesney, discussing facism and neoliberalism, and the relation of the two to the current paradigm in the US in an introduction to Chomsky's "Profit Over People"
"Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
--Cyril Connolly
"A country is not only what it doesâit is also what it puts up with, what it tolerates."
âKurt Tucholsky
"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."
--Arundhati Roy
"Cowardice asks, is it safe? Expediency asks, is it politic? Vanity asks, is it popular? But conscience asks, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him, it is right."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.".
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