{"id":18726,"date":"2016-01-17T00:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=18726"},"modified":"2016-01-17T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T08:55:13","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-war-capitalism-war-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-war-capitalism-war-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: War Capitalism = War Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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64 Detroit School Shutdown in Rolling Sickouts <\/strong>With more than half of Detroit Public Schools closed Monday by a teacher sickout, Michigan\u2019s top school official called for the district\u2019s emergency manager to address health and safety issues in classroom buildings \u2013 hours after union leaders and members publicized problems at two public events.<\/p>\n

State superintendent Brian Whiston said in a statement that DPS Emergency Manager Darnell Earley should set up a meeting with state, local and district representatives in response to a press conference and a rally where teachers complained of buildings with leaky roofs, rat infestations, broken boilers and shortages of books and other supplies.\u00a0 www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2016\/01\/11\/detroit-schools-sickout\/78619102\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Teacher Protests: “Unethical” and Union-led–or Evidence of Professional Courage?<\/h1>\n
By Nancy Flanagan<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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Detroit teachers are at their wits’ end, for dozens of reasons–from building safety to bulging classrooms to incoherent curriculum, predatory testing–and lack of leadership or a democratically elected board. Not to mention loaned money that the DISTRICT OWES teachers. They have zero job security. Neither the Emergency Manager of the district (appointed by the governor of Michigan) nor their union (more on that later) has moved to action. Their dental insurance carrier–Delta–has even advised local dentists not to treat DPS teachers, since Delta’s not receiving payments from DPS.\u00a0 blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/teacher_in_a_strange_land\/2016\/01\/teacher_protests_unethical_and_union-led–or_evidence_of_professional_courage.html?r=1252776383&preview=1<\/a><\/p>\n

Doing nothing hurts Detroit children more than whatever consequences roll down from a job action, however randomly organized<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Forrest Claypool has threatened our jobs for months. WE DO NOT KNOW THE DATE<\/strong>, for certain, but we expect that the Board will announce layoffs of 1000, 2000, or 5000 CTU members very soon<\/em>. However many they lay off will be too many! We must stand up to their threats!<\/a> Claypool claimed that his proposed cuts would prevent layoffs. Yet even if the CTU had agreed to pay cuts for the next four years<\/strong>, the Board only guaranteed to hold off layoffs for next semester!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Doug Henwood\u2019s My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency<\/em> is a compact, straightforward inoculation against media spin, which will become ever more dizzying as November approaches. Henwood quickly but systematically unravels Clinton\u2019s long political history. He reveals someone whose greatest political consistency has been unyielding amorality, a relentless self-aggrandizement devoid of humanistic concern for social justice. Those who imagine Clinton as part of the struggle for gender, racial, or economic equality should\u00a0be sorely disillusioned by Henwood\u2019s thoroughly researched account.<\/p>\n

Behind its portrayal of Clinton the person, My Turn<\/em> repeatedly touches on the rarefied world in which Clinton operates. Henwood is careful (and correct) to state that Clinton herself is not \u201cThe Problem.\u201d Rather, she \u201cis a symptom of a deep sickness in the American political system, produced by the structural features designed to limit popular power.\u201d Clinton is no more or less than a master of this system; she\u2019s not the devil\u00a0her detractors on the right might contend<\/a>, but she is essentially a representative\u00a0and practitioner of ruling class politics \u2013 i.e., politics aimed against the overwhelming bulk of the population.<\/p>\n