Welcome to Radical Pamphlets Hear and Now, an audio production of the New Perennials Project at Middlebury College.

For centuries, pamphlets were utilized to demand reform, equality, and justice. Nowadays, they can offer common sense, and practical advice to slow down and attend the here and now, wherever you are.

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Written and read by Middlebury College student Mary Nagy-Benson urging her classmates, and all young people who spend four years on a college/university campus, to acknowledge and engage with the town or city in which it and they are situated.

In Nagy-Benson's words: "Too often, attending college can be made to feel like a necessary four-year detour through a quaint small town on the way to a career. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can turn a detour into a destination when we experience the joy and peace that comes with being together in this time and place."

Visit https://doi.org/10.57968/Middlebury.27661389 to read this pamphlet.

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Inspired by John Dewey and Henry David Thoreau, Matt Schlein, outdoor educator and founder of The Willowell Foundation and the Walden Project in Monkton, Vermont, calls out the many ways the indoor classroom-model of education fails all who participate in it, particularly students, and calls for alternatives that are alive with hope, compassion, wisdom, and respect for integrity of all who engage the educational enterprise.

In Schlein's words, "We need young people to feel hope, instead of the quiet desperation that pervades their daily experience. We need systems that go eyeball to eyeball with the challenges of this moment, responding with compassion and wisdom. We need to delight in this creation, to ask why, to dream, to create, and to envision a future replete with possibilities and hope."

Visit https://doi.org/10.57968/Middlebury.27655089 to read this pamphlet.

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