I recall a catch phrase from my 1991 Preschool Learning Association-accredited course for jobseekers wanting to work with the under-fives age range: "Play is a learners' work."
I recently received a news item about a game promoting nonviolence through co-operative games. This game is seeking sponsors.
Disarm the Base
A cooperative board game about disarming war planes.
Welcome to the disarmament movement. Thank you for volunteering to save lives and reveal the hypocrisy of those in power....
Who is devising and promoting this game?
And nonviolent activists using such methods have previously successful experience of helping a court to rule that UK Government broke its own rules regarding the armaments sales that the activists had opposed through nonviolent direct action! UK Government wanted to imprison the activists. Should not the UK Government 'key decision makers' involved have been tried for crimes against humanity instead?About the creator
Dissent Games (Jessica Metheringham)
Reading, UKDissent Games is run by Jessica Metheringham. Jess has worked on political campaigns for peace, social justice, and sustainability issues. She's interested in turning activists into board gamers, and maybe board gamers into activists.
By
contrast, I was recently struck by the promotion of militarisation of
children the BBC indulged in with televised news items about the winner
of a shoot them up 'action' game called 'Fortnite' that had huge prize
funds attached to it.
A Japanese friend I met in London when she was working
with disabled activists in the UK told me that such games were active in
Japan partially as a means of subduing the reflective learning
qualities associated with combating social injustice, while Japan's
phenomenon of karoshi parallels the mainland Chinese guolaosi.
What kind of society/world do the promoters of 'Fortnite' want to promote? And who are they? Do they have links with armaments industry and its profiteering at the expense of others' misery?
Hi Alan, congratulations on your new venture. I hope it goes well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Martin.
ReplyDeleteYou've long been a role model at speaking out fairly without tribalism and with community involvement exemplified by your Wembley Matters blog.
Thanks again for that.
Alan