Detroit Federation of Teachers http://www.youtube.com/dftmembers Smith Radio Show in Pennsylvania http://ricksmithshow.com/statebattles/michigan/cfaocc Report from BAMN Teacher/Occupier Nicole Conaway http://defendpubliceducation.com/2011/04/16/detroit-students-occupy-catherine-ferguson-academy-high-school/ Update: Students occupy Detroit school Catherine Ferguson Academy students protest pending privatizion of school By ROBERT GUTTERSOHN | The South End Updated: 3 hours ago http://thesouthend.wayne.edu/index.php/article/2011/04/ferguson_academy#comment828 Students, faculty take over Detroit school in protest April 15, 2011 […]
source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Under US political and economic Orwellian “leadership,” Americans are told: Our increasing national debt (public and private) is a “money supply.” Government is incapable of creating money to hire unemployed Americans to produce useful work, such as education and infrastructure, that return more to the economy than the cost of inputs […]
Remember when we used to say, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty?” Well, I have a new mantra. Like Mulder said, “Trust no one.” I was really excited to hear about “Coffee Party USA.” I signed up. And then, I went to their site. It is really polished. It talks about lots of action and it […]
source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The 7-minute video on the left by Dave Meslin is a useful reframe for a common complaint that people are somehow too selfish, stupid, and/or lazy to engage in our most important political and economic issues. You and I observe that ~95% of human beings are generally cooperative, intelligent when given […]
Does anyone remember the old story about the psychiatrist who showed his patient a drawing of a square and asked his patient what it reminded him of? The patient replied, “Sex. The doctor than showed him a picture of a circle, with the same question. Again, the patient replied, “Sex.” Finally the doctor produced a […]
Over the past few months, with the crisis in Japan, endless budget debates, and NATO bombings in Libya, very little media attention has been given to the steady trickle of Wikileaks releases and related stories. Nonetheless, one important news story, mostly overlooked by the main stream media, has been the alleged torture by the U.S. […]
In a stunning show of courage, public workers from SB Local #1072 of College Park, Maryland at the University of Maryland rallied on April 13th to demand their rights and express their grievances. Alongside them were university students, aligning their interests in tandem with those of the university public workers. This is an important step […]
In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came […]