Why Are Things As They Are?

We Say Fight Back! With these actions, the striking students hope to replicate the civil disobedience that helped successfully remove the US Navy & its bombing operations from the island of Vieques. The renewed UPR student strike against: the crippling $800 tuition hike – it would force out over 10,000 poor students, the dismantling and [...]

We Say Fight Back! Lucasville Hunger Striker (with help from Staughton Lynd) Win! A hunger strike by the three Lucasville riot leaders has ended with state prison officials conceding to nearly all of the strikers’ demands. A memo dated Friday from Warden David Bobby of the Ohio State Penitentiary at Youngstown outlined six policy changes [...]

We Say Fight Back! 41 Votes Divide Incumbent from Insurgent in Detroit Fed Vote: In an extraordinarily close vote, incumbent Detroit Federation of Teachers President, Keith Johnson, claimed formal victory over insurgent radical teacher, Steve Conn, by 41 votes, 1974 to 1933. This announcement appeared on the DFT website at 7:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, [...]

We Remember Adam Renner: https://sites.google.com/site/rougeforumremembersadam/ The Little Red Schoolhouse: Gates ‘ Man With Fake Degree to Run LA Schools:  John Deasy Appointed and the Real Story: The Los Angeles School Board is expected to name John Deasy, now serving as an under-boss to Superintendent Ramon Cortines, to be the new superintendent of the second largest [...]