{"id":10636,"date":"2013-05-12T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2013-05-12T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T04:51:31","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-join-us-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-join-us-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Join Us in Detroit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rouge Forum 2013 will be held at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI on May 16-19.
\nThe theme of this RF2013 is \u201cWinning the Class Struggle Against Corporate Education Reform\u201d
\nThe Rouge Forum brings together academic presentations and panel discussions, performances, community building, and cultural events.
\nJoin us in Beautiful Downtown Detroit!<\/strong> <\/span><\/strong>The Rouge Forum holds meetings on a regular basis at both local and national levels. The national conferences have been held on a more or less annual basis; all meetings are action-oriented and the national conferences usually include workshops for teachers and students; panel discussions; community-building and cultural events; as well as academic presentations. Many prominent voices for democracy and critical pedagogy have participated in Rouge Forum meetings.
\nOn this site you\u2019ll find the latest information about upcoming Rouge Forum meetings and conferences as well information on past conferences, including abstracts, papers, and videos. \u00a0http:\/\/rougeforumconference.wordpress.com\/\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide (but no Americans tried) <\/strong> A three-judge panel Friday convicted former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide, saying his military regime used \u201cextreme terror\u201d in an effort to wipe out a Mayan minority ethnic group in the early 1980s.
\nIn a packed courtroom in Guatemala City, Judge Yassmin Barrios said investigators had proven that the regime led by Rios Montt, who is 86, used starvation, mass homicide, dislocation, rape and aerial bombardment as tactics to exterminate the Ixil minority, which it believed to harbor leftist guerrillas.
\nBarrios gave Rios Montt a 50-year jail term for genocide and an additional 30 years for crimes against humanity.
\nWhen Barrios read the sentence, cheers erupted in the courtroom, a sign of the high emotions surrounding the trial, which deeply divided Guatemala and drew attention in other Latin American nations with a history of military dictatorships.
\nThe conviction marked the first time a former Guatemalan military strongman known for \u201cscorched earth\u201d tactics to eradicate leftist guerrillas had been found guilty of genocide and ordered to prison.
\n\u201cThe accused, Jose Efrain Rios Montt, had full knowledge of all that was occurring and did nothing to stop it,\u201d Barrios said. \u00a0Read more here: www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/05\/10\/190978\/guatemala-court-gives-80-year.html#.UY5D_Mp35x0#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n

Detroit’s Fast Food Workers Strike <\/strong>Organizers estimate that as many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday, in what may be the largest fast food strike in American history.
\nLeaders in the workers rights campaign said the strike has shut down multiple restaurants entirely, including multiple McDonald\u2019s outlets, a Long John Silver\u2019s, a Burger King, two Popeye\u2019s restaurants, and a KFC. At one McDonald\u2019s, management attempted to avert a shutdown by bringing in replacement workers\u2014but those replacement workers then promptly joined the strike. \u00a0 tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/05\/10\/detroit-experiences-what-may-be-largest-fast-food-strike-yet\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ohanian on the NAEP Inquiries <\/strong>The Feds are intent on adding to their data bases\u2013so they\u2019ll have all the \u201cproof\u201d they need to document every instant of people\u2019s lives. It starts with the kids. Improving the Measurement of Socioeconomic Status for the National Assessment of Educational Progress: A Theoretical Foundation, a white paper, shows how the Feds can classify students by more than just their parents\u2019 income or education levels. As Greg Toppo reported in USA Today, May 9, 2013: this paper explains the federal government should be able to tie test scores to a host of indicators, including: whether parents own or rent their home, how many times a family has moved in the past year and whether anyone in their household gets medical assistance. \u00a0http:\/\/www.dailycensored.com\/the-feds-are-making-a-list-inbloom-is-checking-it-twice\/<\/p>\n

Saginaw Mich Teachers won’t get paid <\/strong>Teachers in the Buena Vista School District in Saginaw \u2014 told Friday they won\u2019t get paid for the rest of the school year \u2014 have opted to continue working in the hope the district and state can resolve the district\u2019s financial crisis.
\nThe Michigan Department of Education (MDE) recently decided to freeze the district\u2019s April, May and June state aid payments after state officials discovered the district had received $580,000 in state aid for a program for incarcerated youths that the district no longer ran. District officials had failed to notify the state they no longer ran the program. The freeze in payments will allow the state to recoup the money. \u00a0http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130506\/NEWS06\/305060094\/Buena-Vista-Saginaw-teachers-to-work-without-paycheck<\/p>\n

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Single Sex Classrooms where Sins are only in the Mind <\/strong>The School District of Beloit is going forward with offering its single-gender classes despite complaints by the ACLU alleging Robinson Elementary School and McLenegan Elementary School were violating Title IX, a federal law banning sex discrimination in education.
\n\u201cWe are going to move forward. We feel pretty strongly we as a district have done this with good intent,\u201d Superintendent Steve McNeal said. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m all for the decision to move forward and fight this thing,\u201d school board member Mark Rand said.
\nIn interviews after a special meeting Tuesday evening, board President Shannon Scharmer said members unanimously decided the district is going to respond to the ACLU\u2019s complaint by providing the necessary information in hopes of keeping the single-gender classes. Scharmer said the single-gender classes appear good for kids and said many parents are in favor of them.
\nMcNeal added there is some data showing the classes may help students, but said the even bigger issue is that the district is giving parents a choice.
\nScharmer noted many women in power such as Michelle Obama and Hilary Clinton attended all-girls schools. \u00a0http:\/\/www.beloitdailynews.com\/news\/single-gender-classes-stay\/article_19d8bb5c-b7f0-11e2-bcab-0019bb2963f4.html<\/p>\n

Missionaries for Capitalism Rush toward their new Catechism (national standards and the tests that follow) <\/strong> Goehring is among the earliest adopters of Common Core standards, a set of national guidelines that California and 44 other states have embraced as the next big shift in teaching.
\nThe new standards stress critical thinking, problem solving and use of technology. Students will spend less time reading literature and more time analyzing nonfiction. Math lessons will teach students multiple ways to answer problems and apply skills to real-world situations.
\nCalifornia school districts are now hurriedly building curriculum, buying computers and training educators to teach to the new national standards. They have little time. State-mandated testing of the standards begins in 2014-15.
\n“This is the singular largest shift in public education in my nearly 25 years now,” said Chris Evans, superintendent of Natomas Unified School District. \u00a0Read more here: www.sacbee.com\/2013\/05\/09\/5406542\/california-moves-quickly-to-carry.html#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n

MaryLand School Workers Want More Training on Common Core (they so want to please) <\/strong>Maryland teachers are asking for more time and training to meet the demands of new evaluation systems and education standards expected to be in place by the start of the next school year, according to a survey from the Maryland State Education Association.
\nNearly two out of three teachers surveyed say they\u2019re unprepared to teach students based on more rigorous Common Core State Standards. About 72 percent said they aren\u2019t ready for new teacher and principal evaluation systems. <\/strong> www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/2013\/05\/07\/5f4a2b68-b727-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Pontiac joins List of Michigan Schools that Cannot Meet Payroll <\/strong>An Oakland County school district is facing such dire financial circumstances it is not expected to make payroll next week, according to report by state education Superintendent Mike Flanagan.The results of a preliminary review of the Pontiac School District’s finances reveal it has not made sufficient progress on eliminating its $37.7 million deficit, Flanagan said in his May 8 report to district officials.Pontiac Schools had been using cash advances from Oakland Intermediate Schools to meet its May 3 payroll, Flanagan says, adding, “There are no further funds that can be advanced by Oakland Schools that would be sufficient to meet the May 17, 2013, payroll obligation” of $875,000.The district also is unable to meet other vendor obligations including transportation, utilities and custodial services as well as a $1.5 million in technology bills owed to Oakland Schools, according to the state report. From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130510\/SCHOOLS\/305100425#ixzz2SxoJjozF<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cheater Cheater! <\/strong>Frankly, I am bewildered that there is so much curiosity as to why there is cheating in schools and how to address this as if it were an isolated problem (\u201cExploring the culture of cheating,\u201d April 15). To me it seems blatantly obvious.
\nOurs is a culture of cheating. Banks cheat customers, taxpayers, government. Advertising \u2014 the most cynical of all aspects of the culture \u2014 is built on considerable misrepresentation (cheating). Corporations cheat the public, the customers, the government. Cigarette companies lie. Virtually every element of the culture is based on cheating. And that cheating comes without any ill consequences. No one from banks or corporations ever goes to prison; there is no \u201ctruth in advertising.\u201d
\nIn school, the focus is all on grades, not on learning. The entire focus of and on education in this country is on how it will help students make more money \u2014 get better jobs \u2014 the more degrees, the more money. I have never heard anyone ever mention that education has intrinsic value, that it enhances the quality of our lives, makes life more interesting and fulfilling. \u00a0 www.santafenewmexican.com\/opinion\/my_view\/article_f3992968-f851-50ab-a5f5-a0bda63ed216.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheater Cheater Part 2 <\/strong>The Texas Education Agency is asking federal officials to investigate the San Elizario and Canutillo school districts which, like the El Paso Independent School District, tried to control the population of limited English proficient students to cheat federal accountability measures.
\nThe TEA sent a letter on Monday to the U.S Department of Education Office of Civil Rights and the Office of the Inspector General seeking the investigation because findings in the districts are similar to the cheating scheme that occurred at the EPISD. The agency also attached its finalized audit findings on the Canutillo and San Elizario districts that were released in March. \u00a0http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_23195283\/tea-asks-feds-probe-san-eli-canutillo-policies<\/p>\n

The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/span><\/strong>
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26 Thousand Rapes in US Military in one year <\/strong>Just one day after the Air Force\u2019s chief of sexual assault prevention was arrested for sexual assault himself, a new Pentagon report shows a sharp increase in the estimated number of assaults in the military annually.
\nThe report from the Department of Defense\u2019s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office for Fiscal Year 2012 found a 6 percent rise in reported assaults over the last year, for a total of 3,374. But much more troubling is the estimated number of sexual assault incidents that were never officially reported. In last year\u2019s report, there were an estimated 19,000 instances, but this year the number has jumped to an unprecedented 26,000 instances of assault, leaving thousands unreported. \u00a0http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2013\/05\/07\/1972241\/pentagon-sexual-assault-report\/<\/p>\n

Snepp: The Vietnam Syndrome<\/strong> Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn the last American troops from the war zone and had declared indigenous forces strong enough, and the government reliable enough, to withstand whatever the enemy might throw into the fray after U.S. forces were gone. That’s the same story we told ourselves in Iraq when we pulled out of that country in 2011. And today, as American troops are being drawn down in Afghanistan, we’re hearing variations on the same claims once again. Yet security remains so fragile in both Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible not to worry that we are deluding ourselves and that we failed to learn the most important lessons of Vietnam.
\nOne major ingredient of both the Afghanistan and Iraqi experiments was the use of American dollars to buy off insurgents, wean them from their Al Qaeda or Taliban suitors and win the indulgence, however grudging, of the leadership in Kabul or Baghdad. Such payments may help ensure a lull in the violence to allow U.S. forces to withdraw. But the enduring fallacy of such tactics was made clear in Vietnam.
\nThe strategic hamlet and pacification programs of the early and mid-1960s featured U.S. operatives fanning out through the countryside to buy the quiescence of village and hamlet chiefs. But in the end, the only thing that this money purchased was a continued Balkanization of the political landscape. The local beneficiaries, including special police and paramilitary units, identified with their American bagmen, not with Vietnam’s central government, and the government in turn remained suspicious of their loyalties. The moment U.S. dollars and protection were withdrawn, the central government cracked down, destroying whatever calm existed.
\nSuch an adjustment is now going on in Iraq, where reports are mounting of Shiite vengeance against Sunnis. In Afghanistan, the “stabilizing” effect of U.S. forces and money is belied by a ragged security picture throughout the country and the resurgence of warlords.
\nIn the last year and a half, as the Obama administration has staggered into its Afghan end-game, armed American drones and special commando operations have replaced the expensive counter-
\ninsurgency template designed by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus. But the resulting campaign of targeted killing may not be an improvement because it contains the same ghastly flaws the Phoenix program had in Vietnam. The Phoenix program, a de facto assassination operation run by the CIA and U.S. military and carried out by provincial Vietnamese units, helped put the Viet Cong on the ropes temporarily, by eliminating many of their most experienced fighters and political operatives.
\nBut for all this, the North Vietnamese went on to win. articles.latimes.com\/2013\/may\/05\/opinion\/la-oe-snepp-lessons-of-vietnam-20130505<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Benghazi Lies<\/strong>: “Greg Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya, said lawyers from the State Department told him not to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi.” www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=50146449n&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cbsnews%2Ffeed+(<\/a>CBSNews.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Benghazi Lies Part 2 <\/strong> a disclosure of e-mails that show the White House was more deeply involved in revising talking points about the attack than officials have previously acknowledged. \u00a0The e-mails, which the administration turned over to Congress, show the White House coordinating an intensive process with the State Department, the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and other agencies to obtain the final version of the talking points, used by Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, in television appearances after the attack.
\nThe State Department, in particular, pushed to remove references to Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, the Libyan militant group suspected of carrying out the attack as well as warnings about other potential terrorist threats from the C.I.A., which drafted the initial talking points. \u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/benghazi-e-mails-put-white-house-on-the-defensive.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y&_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

BP withdraws some Staff from Libya <\/strong>Oil giant BP has withdrawn some non-essential staff from operations in Libya following UK government advice about uncertainty in the country. \u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-22501901<\/p>\n

Karzai: US can Stay in Afghanistan and Send Me Money Forever<\/strong>: The United States and Afghanistan are negotiating a security agreement that would allow American forces to stay here beyond the end of 2014, and Mr. Karzai said the Obama administration had asked for nine bases spread across the country.
\n“We agree to give them these bases,” Mr. Karzai told students during a speech at Kabul University. “We consider our relations with the United States beyond 2014 to be positive for Afghanistan.”
\nThe American reaction, though, was far less positive than one would expect. Officials characterized Mr. Karzai’s comments as premature at best, and said they appeared to reflect the Afghan government’s desire for a larger force than the United States is likely to be willing to commit. www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/10\/world\/asia\/karzai-says-us-can-keep-afghan-bases-after-2014.html?ref=global-home&_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pakistan High Court Rules Drone Strikes Illegal and Some as War Crimes <\/strong>Pakistani High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan has issued a ruling today declaring the ongoing US drone strikes against the tribal areas illegal under international law, adding that they amount to a “war crime” when they kill innocents. news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/09\/pakistan-high-court-us-drone-strikes-illegal\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Bourgeoisie Critic Ahmed Rashid notes fake election in Pakistan, Calls for Military Rule <\/strong>Even by Pakistan\u2019s dismal standards of rigged elections, military dictatorships and incompetent civilian governments, the polarisation, murder and mayhem on the streets is unprecedented. Coupled with the gross opportunism of all political leaders in ignoring issues on which the nation\u2019s survival depends, this is causing immense international and public concern. \u00a0…In April alone, 100 candidates and their supporters have been killed, and 300 have been wounded in suicide bombings, shootings and land mine explosions \u2013 the majority from the ANP. Yet the two rightwing parties that have been let off the hook by the Taliban, led by opposition leaders Nawaz Sharif and the former cricketer Imran Khan, have refused to condemn the militants or take a stand on behalf of their targeted colleagues. Mr Khan appears to be sympathetic to the Taliban, while Mr Sharif pretends they do not exist….The crisis can be met only if all
\npolitical parties \u2013 victors and vanquished \u2013 and the army understand the need to pull the ship of state together
\nand change its direction. Unless that happens the next government, just like the last one, will be doomed \u00a0http:\/\/www.ahmedrashid.com\/wp-content\/archives\/pakistan\/articles\/pdf\/Pakistanspoliticiansmustunitetosavethenation.pdf<\/p>\n

Kurdish Fighters Enter the Now-regional Syrian Civil War <\/strong>\u201cWhile the crisis is deepening in our neighboring country, Syria, and the Kurdish groups in Syria\u2019s north gain power, the AKP\u2019s decision to start negotiations with the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] gives the impression that there is also a set of regional calculations on the agenda,\u201d he said today, May 10, at a media event entitled \u201cCHP\u2019s Proposal and Priorities for Democracy, Rule of Law and Societal Peace.\u201d Kilicdaroglu listed 19 reasons why CHP keeps its distance from the AKP\u2019s negotiations with the PKK.
\nWhile there is nothing new about politicians clashing over ideas, the differences between Turkey\u2019s political camps are so wide that there seems to be no common vision for the future. It’s not that people don\u2019t want peace and prosperity as a regional power, but the opposition holds that the risks that the AKP is taking are so huge that failure will cost the country dearly, and will potentially set off a bigger struggle to keep peace at home.
\nRead more: www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2013\/05\/pkk-fighters-relocating-syria.html#ixzz2T7FnYeIY<\/a><\/p>\n

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War Means Work:There go the Afghan Jobs <\/strong>The 11-year Western military occupation of Afghanistan has been a boon for the Afghan workforce, providing thousands of jobs for interpreters, mechanics, cleaners and drivers. But with bases being torn down and equipment shipped out as combat troops prepare to leave next year, many Afghan workers are no longer needed.
\nFor Shakour and his close friend Padshah Gul, a mechanic who was laid off the same day, the consequences are devastating. Their Bagram jobs paid far more than typical semiskilled Afghans earn. The pair assumed that working for foreigners afforded more certainty and stability than the shaky Afghan economy could provide. Now that seemingly solid foundation has been torn away, leaving them feeling bereft and abandoned. \u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghanistan-layoffs-20130513,0,6054664.story<\/p>\n

Who Fractured Iraq? <\/strong>Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq’s political leaders are openly debating the prospect of two dangerous paths for their country: de facto division or civil war. Perhaps both.
\nTension between the Shiite majority, now in control of the levers of power, and the Sunni Arab minority, which dominated under Saddam Hussein, has been building for months. But politicians on all sides agree that the country has entered a perilous new phase, highlighted in late April by an attack on a Sunni protest camp by security forces that killed at least 45 people. \u00a0 articles.latimes.com\/2013\/may\/10\/world\/la-fg-iraq-divided-20130511<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stocks at Record High amidst Massive Unemployment, Imprisonment, Endless War and Booming Inequality (capitalism laughing) <\/strong>Don\u2019t let the soaring stock market and applause from politicians over a slight dip in the unemployment rate fool you. A deeper dive into government data underscores just how bleak the picture still is in today\u2019s labor market.
\nThe unemployment rate in April was 7.5 percent, two full percentage points below where it stood at the end of the Great Recession in June 2009. The Obama administration touts the creation of 6.8 million jobs over the past 38 months. At the same time, the stock market has roared back from recession depths, the Dow Jones index of industrial stocks this week closing above 15,000 for the first time.
\nOn the face of it this is good news.
\nBut the improving headlines mask a scarred labor market. One out of five American families reported last year that not a single family member had a job. About 102 million Americans are completely out of the work force. And by a number of measures, participation in the labor market remains at or near modern lows.
\nRead more here: www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/05\/09\/190840\/while-wall-street-soars-jobs-market.html#emlnl=Daily_News_Update#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n

Capital\u2019s Murder toll in Bangladesh crime passes 1000 <\/strong>The death toll from the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh rose above 1,000 victims on Friday, as work crews continued clearing debris from the wreckage site of the building following what is considered the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry. The death toll, now at 1,021, has been rising quickly in recent days, and will likely keep climbing, as work crews using heavy machinery are now removing rubble from some of the most heavily damaged sections of the building. Five garment factories operated inside the structure and at least 3,000 people were reportedly working inside when the building collapsed on the morning of April 24.
\nLocated in an industrial suburb of Dhaka, the national capital, Rana Plaza exemplified many of safety problems plaguing a Bangladeshi garment industry that is now the world’s second-leading exporter, trailing only China. Authorities in Bangladesh now say the building was illegally constructed, with permits obtained through political influence. The owner, Sohel Rana, now in jail, was illegally adding upper floors to structure at the time the building collapsed, officials said. www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/11\/world\/asia\/bangladesh-collapse-death-toll.html?ref=global-home<\/a><\/p>\n

Obamagogue Appointee Penny Pritzker <\/strong>Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker, nominated by President Obama to be Secretary of Commerce, faces a grilling confirmation process. As media are pointing out (and I noted in a 2007 Reader piece), the Pritzker family has a background of consorting with organized crime, and has used offshore tax and secrecy havens to slice their tax obligations. After her nomination, The Nation magazine did a two-part series on the family’s sleazy background, but the author pointed out, “Penny is not responsible for the dodgy practices of her grandfather,” the late patriarch. However, she will get grilled about the failure of a Chicago bank, and other Pritzker businesses to which she was closer. (Incidentally, as Forbes points out, she is worth $1.85 billion, 277th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Ten members of the Pritzker clan — known for its internal squabbles — are on the Forbes 400 list.)
\nIn 2006, residents of Classic Residence by Hyatt at La Jolla Village (which was headed by Penny Pritzker and now has another name) sued Hyatt\/Pritzker entities for fraud and deceit, misrepresentation, elder abuse, breach of fiduciary duty and other transgressions. In 2008, the Superior Court suit was settled. Hyatt agreed to pay $2.27 million to residents, although $1.4 million went for their attorney’s fees. Hyatt also agreed to have the wellness center open 24 hours a day and staffed by professionals at key hours, and put a 3% ceiling on monthly fee increases through 2013 for those suing. \u00a0http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/weblogs\/news-ticker\/2013\/may\/08\/penny-pritzkers-la-jolla-adventure\/?utm_source=San+Diego+Reader+Newsletters&utm_campaign=538d42d479-News_Stories_201305095_6_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8142a24857-538d42d479-408112185
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