{"id":16990,"date":"2015-05-23T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=16990"},"modified":"2015-05-24T00:17:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T08:17:46","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Beyond Empire and Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Multiple Arrests in Cleveland as protests of another cop murder continue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police in riot gear arrested more than a dozen people in Cleveland on Saturday night as peaceful protests turned unruly after the acquittal of a patrolman charged in the deaths of two unarmed suspects.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations had been tense but calm in the hours after Judge John P O\u2019Donnell found police officer Michael Brelo not guilty on two counts of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the deaths of two unarmed African Americans in November 2012. Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were killed when officers fired 137 shots at their vehicle, after a 20-minute car chase.Brelo fired 49 times at the victims\u2019 1979 Chevy Malibu, including 15 shots while he was standing on its hood.<\/p>\n

But the protests boiled over as the night wore on. Deputy police chief Wayne Drummond says the protesters were arrested for failing to disperse from an alley in the city\u2019s Warehouse district on downtown\u2019s west side. www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/may\/23\/cleveland-protesters-michael-brelo-police-officer<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.\u201d<\/em>\u2014Arthur Young; 1771<\/p>\n

And the publication, free online, of Capitalism and Class Consciousness, The Ideas of Georg Lukacs by Chris Nineham <\/strong>www.counterfire.org\/index.php\/theory\/37-theory\/6368-capitalism-and-class-consciousness-the-ideas-of-georg-lukacs<\/a><\/p>\n

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DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION <\/strong>Appointment: Liverpool Hope University, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please circulate this around your professional networks, and to any MA students who may be interested<\/em><\/p>\n

There has arisen an opportunity for a fully-funded Doctoral scholarship working with philosophers and sociologists of education in the area of \u2018spiritual, moral, social and cultural\u2019 education. The project, which is also the subject of a UK ESRC Large Grant proposal currently under review, aims to explore the complex plurality of structures which set the ethos and value of publicly funded schools in England. Working with colleagues in the philosophy and sociology of education, there is broad scope for the doctoral student to explore questions such as:\u00a0 rikowski.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/22\/doctoral-scholarships-philosophy-and-sociology-of-education\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fully opted in to patriotism and capital, Fake Opt out Movement (smelling of DSA) hits Page 1, NYT\u00a0 <\/strong>By the first day of testing in April, two of every three students in the district who were expected to take the exams were refusing to lift their pencils.<\/p>\n

Across New York State, a small if vocal movement urging a rejection of standardized exams took off this year, maturing from scattered displays of disobedience into a widespread rebuke of state testing policies. Next step–opting in to home schooling and charters\u00a0 <\/strong>www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/21\/nyregion\/opt-out-movement-against-common-core-testing-grows-in-new-york-state.html?_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n

Cuckoldette Hillbillary is on Jeb Bush’s Education Payroll <\/strong> Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received\u00a0nearly a quarter of a million dollars last year for a speaking engagement on behalf of Academic Partnerships, a for-profit education company in\u00a0which Jeb Bush held an ownership stake and on whose board he served.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s newly filed personal financial disclosure<\/a> shows that she was paid\u00a0$225,500 on March 24, 2014\u00a0by Academic Partnerships. At the invitation-only event in Dallas, Texas, Clinton reportedly said<\/a>, \u201ctoday a student doesn\u2019t need to travel to Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, England, to get a world-class education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Academic Partnerships assists\u00a0universities in converting their academic degree programs into online versions that can be taken by students around the world.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Bush joined<\/a> Academic Partnerships as an investor and as a paid advisor. He helped the company host multiple conferences and has appeared in online videos encouraging others to consider the Academic Partnership business model.\u00a0 firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/05\/18\/hillary-clinton-paid-jeb-bushs-education-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Capitalism beats on the door of every classroom: Rural Districts chase foreign tuition payers to enhance budgets <\/strong>Cash-strapped rural school districts are increasingly recruiting tuition-paying international students. Some foreign students hope that by attending school in the U.S., an American high school diploma and better English will improve their chances of getting into top U.S. colleges and universities. Rural schools are using those tuition dollars to stay afloat. www.congress.gov\/bill\/113th-congress\/house-bill\/1139<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey NEA Delegates! Arne Duncan is not fired, your prezzie hugged him, and he is in Philly giving directions: Go Get a Summer Job! <\/strong>US education secretary Arne Duncan visited West Philadelphia today to take part in a roundtable discussion about the importance of summer employment for young people.
\nAt a Free Library branch at 34th and Haverford Avenue, Duncan was joined by Mayor Nutter and schools superintendent William Hite.
\nBut the adults turned the microphone over to the young folks for a while, to hear first-person accounts of the positive impact that summer jobs can have.\u00a0http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2015\/05\/22\/us-education-secretary-visits-philadelphia-touting-summer-jobs-for-youth\/<\/p>\n

The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Memorial Day does not mask the fact that children of the poor fight other children of the poor on behalf of the rich in their homelands. Troops are cannon fodder. <\/strong>An Arizona widow has filed a federal lawsuit against the Phoenix VA Medical Center, claiming that the hospital mistakenly gave her husband a false diagnosis that led to his suicide.
\nIn the suit, Shirley Fobke claims that her cancer-stricken veteran husband, Gene Spencer, killed himself after the Phoenix VA Medical Center erroneously told him he did not have long to live, reports the Arizona Republic.
\nIn October 2012, a physician at the center told Spencer, who served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970, that his cancer had spread to his lungs, and he only had a few more weeks to live, says Fobke. Three days later, the 67-year-old vet shot himself in the head, reports Fox News.
\nHowever, the day after Spencer’s death, Fobke received a phone call from the hospital saying that the diagnosis was wrong and he was not about to die. But, by then it was too late for Fobke to share the good news with her husband. “It just wasn’t right,” she said. “He deserved better than what they did to him.”\u00a0 www.latinpost.com\/articles\/52867\/20150512\/va-scandal-widow-files-2-5-million-lawsuit-against-phoenix-va-medical-center-for-husbands-suicide.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The danger is that the IS caliphate is becoming a permanent part of the region<\/a>.<\/strong> The frontiers will shift in the coming months. But with the Kurds governing themselves in the north-east, and the Shias in the south, Iraqis question the government\u2019s resolve in reversing IS’s hold on the Sunni north-west. ‘Partition is already a reality,’ sighs a Sunni politician in exile. ‘It just has yet to be mapped,'” writes the Economist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Baghdadi\u2019s caliphate<\/a>, by almost every measure, is growing.<\/strong> Recent intelligence indicates that the Islamic State\u2019s headquarters in Iraq and Syria have sent funds to Egypt\u2019s Sinai Peninsula, fighters to Tunisia, and advice to Boko Haram militants in Nigeria. A Mideast diplomat, who refused to be identified by his nationality, said the group is now operating in as many as 16 countries, including Algeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,” writes Lara Jakes in Foreign Policy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Who Lost Ramadi and Palmyri? <\/strong>Within a matter of days this week, the Islamic State, also called ISIS<\/a> or ISIL, seized with apparent ease the cities of Ramadi in Iraq<\/a> and Palmyra in Syria<\/a>, in both cases seemingly coming out of nowhere to rout government forces. On Thursday, the militants were digging in, consolidating their grip and executing people with ties to the old order.\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/22\/world\/middleeast\/syria-palmyra-ruins-isis.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ObamaMask\"<\/a>Obamagogue: We are NOT LOSING in Iraq (Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, to China, Ukraine, and the other 1000 US bases) <\/strong><\/p>\n