Why Are Things As They Are?

Reminder: Nominations for the Rouge Forum Steering Committee go to Community Coordinator Adam Renner at adamrenner70@gmail.com by September 15th.
Mayday Is the Real Labor Day! Here’s a Fine Poem Anyway:

Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying
We’ll [...]

Reminder: Nominations for the Rouge Forum Steering Committee go to Community Coordinator Adam Renner at adamrenner70@gmail.com
and don’t forget to Educate/Agitate/Occupy/Strike on October Seventh!

Little Red Schoolhouse:

Alfie on Assessments, Goals, and Big Tests: What is its basic conception of assessment? To get a sense of how well things are going and where help is needed, we ought [...]

Reminder: Nominations for the Rouge Forum Steering Committee go to Community Coordinator Adam Renner at adamrenner70@gmail.com
Little Red Schoolhouse

Chicago Says No Concessions! Chicago Teachers Union delegates voted unanimously to reject the Board of Education’s demands that the teachers give up nearly $100 million — in salary adjustments and other concessions (such as furlough days) — at a [...]

Please send nominations for the Rouge Forum Steering Committee to: adamrenner70@yahoo.com

Headline Publications:
Kim Scipes:

The AFL-CIO’s Secret War Against Developing Countries–Solidarity or Sabotage (20% discount!): http://richgibson.com/ScipesFlyer.pdf
Don Perl:  Book Chapter–”Heeding Humble Voices” (free and worth your time) http://richgibson.com/HeedingHumbleVoices.pdf
Little Red Schoolhouse:

Richard Brosio at the Rouge Forum Conference: 2010.
“Marxist Thought: Still Primus Inter Pares For Understanding And Opposing The [...]

Up the Rebels on Oct6ber 7th! The Rouge Forum Flyer: http://www.rougeforum.org/October7.pdf
Sixty Five Years Ago Fat Man and Little Boy Fell on Japan:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/392814/atomic_bomb_little_boy_original_footage/
Opposing Views on The Bombings:
Richard Frank in the Weekly Standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/894mnyyl.asp
Gar Alperovitz on Hnet:
http://www.doug-long.com/debate.htm
Little Red Schoolhouse:

Obamagogue Defends Education Agenda As Class War Agenda:
Saying that reforming education is perhaps “the economic issue of our time,” [...]