Rouge Forum Update: The Resistance Rises. Up the Rebels!
Dear Friends,
Our Rouge Forum No Blood For Oil web page (complete with those good for the rest of your life anti-war posters on sale) is updated at www.rougeforum.org
Reality is catching up with our analysis. Direct action takes the place of a single-tactic electoral outlook. The term, “capitalism,” is revived and post-modernism, that loud religion with an angry cloak, becomes a tidbit of history. The core issue of our time is the terrible reality of endless wars and inequality met by the potential of mass class-conscious resistance.
The Resistance Rises. Up the Rebels!
“Though we denounce the privatization of the university and its authoritarian system of governance, we do not seek structural reforms. We demand not a free university but a free society. A free university in the midst of a capitalist society is like a reading room in a prison; it serves only as a distraction from the misery of daily life. Instead we seek to channel the anger of the dispossessed students and workers into a declaration of war.”
www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/communique-from-an-absent-future-the-terminus-of-student-life/
ucwalkout.ning.com/
occupyca.wordpress.com/media-solidarity/
Bosquet Interviews the Sitdowners at UCSC: chronicle.com/blogAuthor/Brainstorm/3/Marc-Bousquet/81/
Video on MORE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aFxk0aUuU
The Education Agenda is a War Agenda:
Michelle Rhee’s Plans For DC: Whither the AFT?
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093004729.html
Obamagogue Defines School Stretch-Out, Speed-Up (longer faster!)
www.mcclatchydc.com/336/story/63663.html
Revisiting Educational Apartheid: Adam Renner: richgibson.com/apartheideducation.htm
Michelle Rhee and Eli Broad on their Joint Project to Ruin Education: fora.tv/2009/07/05/Transforming_the_System_An_Interview_with_Michelle_Rhee#fullprogram
CA, Tx, Mich., Ill, Flagged For Fed Stim “Corrections.”
www.gao.gov/new.items/d091016.pdf
Ross and Queen on Globalism, Class Struggle, and the Social Studies Curriculum:
web.mac.com/wayne.ross/E._Wayne_Ross/Scholarly_Articles_files/classSSED_001.pdf
The War Agenda is an Education Agenda:
Doonesbury Weighs in on War and Fascism: www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20090927
Fired US Afghan Envoy on the Election Fraud: www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/76345.html
The Army Will Discharge Officer Who Refused Iraq: www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-watada-discharge29-2009sep29,0,103553.story
Quick Facts: Cost of Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: nationalpriorities.org/2009/09/02/quick-facts-US-military-operations-Afghanistan
Pilger: The Lying Game and Wars of Aggression: original.antiwar.com/pilger/2009/09/30/the-lying-game-how-we-are-prepared-for-another-war-of-aggression/
Escobar on Pipelineistan, Europe, Russia, and the USA: www.tomdispatch.com/post/175121/pepe_escobar_pipelineistan_s_ultimate_opera
Indicators of Organized Decay and Our Choice: Community or Barbarism
US Unionism, the End Game: www.richgibson.com/USUnionism.html
Wall St. Journal on the Ruin of Detroit: online.wsj.com/article/SB125390841258341665.html
Bankrupt GM To Close Saturn: www.detnews.com/article/20091001/AUTO01/910010434/1148/GM-to-close-Saturn-after-Penske-pulls-out-of-deal
A Tree Grows in Detroit, Through the Roof: www.detnews.com/article/20091001/METRO08/910010433/1439/METRO08/Nature-takes-root-as-Detroit-landmark-rots
Eighty Thousand Vacant Homes in Detroit. Want One?
www.freep.com/article/20091002/BLOG2505/91002016/1322/Can-Detroit-stop-the-bleeding ?
Robert Reich: It’s Bad and Worse–Unemployment and Teachers: www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-truth-about-jobs-that_b_307642.html
Our Rouge Forum Steering Committee is set. New plans afoot. Some of us will be at AESA in early November.
October 24 is set as the date for the Strike Organizing Meeting in Berkeley. Details to follow. Teachin at UCSB on Oct 14.
Thanks to Adam and Gina, Wayne, Amber, Tom, Bob, Telly, Shana, Betty and Don, Erin, the Susans, Beau and Noi, Dave, Ken and Barb, Kevin, Angelo, Arturo, Vincente, Candy, Mary and Paul, Shandy, Jesus, LDVHSCS and to all those who worked on the UC strike and the subsequent Occupations.
Good luck to us, every one.
r