{"id":18810,"date":"2016-01-24T00:38:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T08:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=18810"},"modified":"2016-01-24T00:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T08:38:33","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-i-decided-the-whole-system-was-screw-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-i-decided-the-whole-system-was-screw-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: “…I decided the whole system was (screw) the poor.”*"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Investment banker Eisman in “The Big Short” p.20<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan\u2019s native Paris, where they were instrumental in the revolts of the nineteenth century, helping to shape the political life of a continent.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Fight White Supremacy, Defeat Capitalism<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Longtime activist, UCLA history professor and author Robin D.G. Kelly<\/strong> pointed to the \u201cdemocratic revolutionary vision\u201d of the 1960s National Welfare Rights Organization, the Black Panther and Young Lords parties, and even the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which in 1964 called for a national minimum income, an end to the draft, withdrawal from Vietnam and a boycott of South Africa. Later, however, Black elected officials \u201chelped manage the transfer of wealth to the rich\u201d and promoted schemes for \u201cmulticulturalism and diversity\u201d which, ultimately, \u201cdo not disrupt white supremacy.\u201d Said Kelly: \u201cYou cannot wage an assault on white supremacy without fighting against capitalism.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>www.blackagendareport.com\/black_agenda_radio_20160111<\/a>
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A Detroit teacher called for a “full strike” from the steps of Cobo Center today after several hours of protests.<\/p>\n

Nearly all of the city’s schools were closed today because of teacher sick-outs.\u00a0Carrying signs criticizing\u00a0Snyder for lead-tainted water in Flint<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0dangerous building conditions in Detroit\u00a0Public\u00a0Schools<\/a>, the protesters — including many teachers — timed the march to coincide with today’s\u00a0visit by President Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0to the North American International Auto Show inside Cobo Center.<\/p>\n

The call for a strike was made\u00a0while Obama was touring the auto show.<\/p>\n

“We can’t just let it be a day we blow off steam,” said Nicole Conaway, a math\u00a0teacher at East English Village. She called for a “full strike” starting Thursday,\u00a0and numerous people \u00a0put up their hands in agreement.<\/p>\n

In Michigan, it’s illegal for teachers to strike. State\u00a0law defines a strike\u00a0by public workers as the “concerted failure to report for duty, the willful absence from one’s position … for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing a change in employment conditions, compensation, or the rights, privileges, or obligations of employment.”http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2016\/01\/20\/detroit-teachers-rally-catch-presidents-eye\/79054270\/<\/p>\n

The only illegal strike is a strike that fails: <\/strong>The Michigan Court of Claims refused Thursday to issue a temporary restraining order sought by Detroit Public Schools to halt recurring teacher sickouts that have closed dozens of the city\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n

The court also scheduled a hearing for 11 a.m. Monday in Detroit in the lawsuit filed by DPS against 23 teachers, the Detroit Federation of Teachers, interim DFT president Ivy Bailey, and organized sickout supporters such as DPS Teachers Fight Back and By Any Means Necessary.<\/p>\n

During the hearing in Detroit, the court will hear the district\u2019s request for a preliminary injunction barring further sickouts.<\/p>\n

In denying the request for a restraining order, Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens wrote that DPS failed to meet court rules governing requests that are made without notifying the other parties.<\/p>\n

According to the district\u2019s complaint, more than 31,000 of the district\u2019s 46,000 students have missed a day of school or more as the result of teacher sickouts, and the closure at one time or another of more than half of all DPS buildings. www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2016\/01\/21\/detroit-public-schools\/79108896\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘Our mouths were ajar’: Doctor’s fight to expose Flint’s water crisis<\/h1>\n

“When pediatricians hear anything about lead, we absolutely freak out,” says Hanna-Attisha, director of the pediatric residency program at Hurley Medical Center, a public hospital in Flint.<\/p>\n

“Lead is a potent known neurotoxin. The CDC, the AAP, everybody tells us that there is no safe level of lead,” she says, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n

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Lead poisoning affects “your cognition and your behavior. It actually drops your IQ,” she says.<\/p>\n

“The very next day I started our crusade to see if that lead in the water was getting into the bodies of children,” says the doctor-turned-campaigner..<\/p>\n

Even though General Motors stopped using the city’s water supply because it was corroding engine parts, the official reaction, Hanna-Attisha says, was one of “denial, denial, denial.”http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/21\/health\/flint-water-mona-hanna-attish\/<\/p>\n

If ever elites wanted to keep a people down for generations,\u00a0 poison them with lead. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Gas company forced to resume offering rental houses to Porter Ranch families\u00a0 The <\/strong>Los Angeles city attorney has forced the Southern California Gas Co. to back down from a plan the utility quietly put in place this week to stop offering rental houses to Porter Ranch families dislocated by the nearby gas leak.<\/p>\n

The company instructed its relocation specialists on Tuesday to no longer place residents in rental houses because they are increasingly hard to find and expensive for short-term lease. The utility, noting that it expects to plug the leak in four to five weeks, told agents to put families in hotels and motels instead.<\/p>\n

The utility reversed its decision after City Atty. Mike Feuer threatened legal action under a court order his office won last month establishing rules governing the relocations.\u00a0 www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-porter-ranch-homes-20160122-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Evacuate Flint! <\/strong><\/p>\n

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E. Wayne Ross on The Courage of Hopelessness: Democratic Education in the Age of Empire<\/h1>\n

Education is not about showing life to people, but bringing them to life. The aim is not getting students to listen to convincing lectures by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves in order to achieve, or at least strive for an equal degree of participation and a more democratic, equitable, and justice future. This requires a new mindset, something I call dangerous citizenship.\u00a0 blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2016\/01\/e-wayne-ross-on-the-courage-of-hopelessness-democratic-education-in-the-age-of-empire-ubcnews-criticaled-ubceduc\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Video Link to Wayne Ross’ Presentation: \u00a0 blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2016\/01\/the-courage-of-hopelessness-democratic-education-in-the-age-of-empire-video\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hundreds of Minneapolis high school students walk out to protest ICE raids and deportations<\/h1>\n

Students from at least 12 Minneapolis and suburban high schools walked out of school, Jan. 20. at noon to protest the current wave of immigration raids and deportations happening around the country. After walking out, the students converged at Martin Luther King Park in south Minneapolis for food and an open mic where students spoke about their experience with family members and friends being deported. Students then left the park and marched down major Minneapolis streets including Nicollet Avenue and Lake Street.<\/p>\n

Students participated from high schools including Washburn, Southwest, South, Roosevelt, El Colegio, Hiawatha, Cristo Rey, Kennedy, Richfield and others. Several cars full of students even came to join the protest from Northfield, more than an hour away from Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

The walkout was initiated by high school students who saw an injustice happening and decided to take the initiative. One of the organizers, Julio Martinez, said, \u201cWe protest because we want to stop deportations. We\u2019re standing up for our rights, and we want other young people know to speak up when something is wrong, to stand up for their rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samantha Compean Morales, another student organizer, said, \u201cWe are doing this walkout to show solidarity with the families that are being ripped away from each other by ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. Obama, the deporter-in-chief, approved of having ICE agents deport people who crossed the border after May 2014. Sadly, a huge percentage of people taken during the raids are women and children, that fled Central American countries. They came to the U.S. to escape from drugs, war and corruption happening in their home countries. They are seeking better job opportunities, a better future and a better education not only for themselves but also for their families.\u201d\u00a0 www.fightbacknews.org\/2016\/1\/20\/hundreds-minneapolis-high-school-students-walk-out-protest-ice-raids-and-deportations<\/a><\/p>\n

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