{"id":211,"date":"2010-03-28T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-03-28T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:54:13","slug":"march-madness-spring-break-and-holiday-war-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/march-madness-spring-break-and-holiday-war-special\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness, Spring Break and Holiday War Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join the National Meetings of Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

and School Workers to Spread March 4! <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Immediately Above: a Fifties Childs’ Radiation Bunny Suit<\/p>\n

Remember Proposals are Due, April 15, for the Rouge Forum Conference
\nrougeforumconference.org\/<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Send Your Articles, Photos, Cartoons, for the RF News to Community Coordinator Adam Renner.<\/strong><\/em>
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\nOn the Little Rouge School Front: <\/strong><\/span>
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\nFreep Gets to the Real Conditions of DPS<\/strong>\u2013Critiques Broad\u2019s Bobb\u2019s Moves: \u201cWhat works at Ferguson is constant, intense individual attention to the students’ academic, social and economic needs.\u201d But Bob Bobb is closing the school…. www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100328\/OPINION02\/3280439\/1319\/A-students-loss-and-search-for-a-new-life&template=fullarticle<\/a>
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\nMore Arrests of Detroit Public School Scammers:<\/strong> \u201cBell said his office has opened investigations in 248 cases based on 280 complaints that range from theft to mismanagement. More are to come, he said.\u201d www.freep.com\/article\/20100324\/NEWS01\/3240308<\/a><\/p>\n

Detroiters Robbed by Broad\u2019s Bobb\u2019s Bond Scheme: <\/strong>“They sold us on a dream,” Hicks-Lark said. “And I jumped on board with it, and now we’ve been crushed.”
\nFrom The Detroit News: www.detnews.com\/article\/20100320\/SCHOOLS\/3200362\/DPS-parents-feeling-betrayed#ixzz0ihSrekPh<\/a>
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\nMarion Brady: 10 False Assumptions and the Ratt: <\/strong>\u201c”Race to the Top? National standards for math, science, and other school subjects? The high-powered push to put them in place makes it clear that the politicians, business leaders, and wealthy philanthropists who\u2019ve run America\u2019s education show for the last two decades are as clueless about educating as they\u2019ve always been.
\nIf they weren\u2019t, they\u2019d know that adopting national standards will be counterproductive, and that the “Race to the Top” will fail for the same reason “No Child Left Behind” failed\u2014because it\u2019s based on false assumptions. voices.washingtonpost.com\/answer-sheet\/guest-bloggers\/educator-race-to-the-top-is-be.html<\/a><\/p>\n

NAEP Results: NCLB Flopped\u2013Nearly No Movement in Test Scores:<\/strong>
\nnationsreportcard.gov\/reading_2009\/<\/a>
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\nMarch 4th Action Video:<\/strong> www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FM-7tTQ_3Sk<\/a><\/p>\n

More March 4th Video: <\/strong>www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKn8XIfqj2U&feature=channel<\/a><\/p>\n

Students, Profs, k12 Educators and Community People Met in Northern and Southern California on March 27 to plan further action including a statewide meet in Fresno on April 24. <\/strong><\/em>
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\nCounterpunch Ran Lies<\/em> About March 4th:<\/strong> www.counterpunch.org\/cooke03162010.html<\/a>
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\nSubstance Fought for the Truth About March 4th<\/strong>: \u201cThe core issue of our time is the reality of the promise of perpetual war and escalating inequality met by the potential of a mass, activist, class conscious movement to transform both daily life and the system of capitalism itself. That is the background, the social context, of the momentous actions on March 4, 2010.\u201d www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=1234&section=Article<\/a><\/p>\n

Adam Renner on M4: <\/strong>rougeforum.org\/distilldemocracy.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Greg Johnson: Medical? What Medical?<\/strong> richgibson.com\/medical.html<\/a>
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Against the Vacillating Reactionary Ravitch<\/strong>: \u201cPerhaps it is because she floats around in the really thin air that is the field of education that the vacillating reactionary, Diane Ravitch, gets cheers from those who condemned her in her No Child Left Behind days.\u201d www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=1255&section=Article<\/a><\/p>\n

The Official Program For Gutting K.C. Schools by Broad\u2019s Covington: <\/strong>\u201cCovington said dramatic and aggressive changes were urgently needed. That includes longer school days. Teachers would be paid more based on how their students perform.\u201d
\nwww.kansascity.com\/2010\/03\/20\/1826767\/superintendent-unveils-ambitious.html?story_link=email_msg<\/a>
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\nUTLA Takes Concessions, Shorter Work Year:<\/strong>
\nwww.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-lausd28-2010mar28,0,4558662.story<\/a><\/p>\n

The They Say Cut Back; We Say Fight Back Front: <\/strong><\/span>
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\nNurses Union Leader Attacks Obamacare:<\/strong> When all the boasts fade, comparing the bill to Social Security and Medicare, probably intended to mollify liberal supporters following repeated concessions to the healthcare industry and conservative Democrats, a sobering reality will probably set in.
\nwww.huffingtonpost.com\/rose-ann-demoro\/diary-of-a-wimpy-healthca_b_510706.html<\/a>
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\nFire Dog Lake On Obamacare<\/strong> (nice chart at bottom):
\nfdlaction.firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/19\/fact-sheet-the-truth-about-the-health-care-bill\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Fred the Red On Obamacare:<\/strong> ”\u00a0 The latest so-called health care reform bill, signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, has consolidated and legalized the position of the health care profiteers as the central force in the system of health care \u2014 under minimal supervision and regulation by the capitalist state. Furthermore, this bill has been passed by bargaining away women\u2019s reproductive rights and the rights of undocumented and documented immigrants. Its effect is to destroy solidarity while it turns its back on millions of mostly poor women and immigrants.”http:\/\/marxistupdate.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/new-health-care-bill-workers-to-wait.html<\/p>\n

On the Perpetual War Front:<\/strong><\/span>
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\nObama Demands $33 Billion More for Afghan War:<\/strong> \u201cDefense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared before Senate appropriators to defend the war supplemental, which is on top of the $708 billion baseline budget submitted to Congress in February.\u201d www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2010\/0325\/Pentagon-wants-33-billion-more-for-war-in-Afghanistan<\/a>
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\nObama Hugs Puppet-Gangster Karzai: <\/strong>\u201cKarzai recently overhauled the Afghan election complaint commission, but made it less neutral by claiming the right to appoint all five members. Currently, three of the members are appointed by the United Nations. The move infuriated some Western diplomats here who saw it as almost a taunt.Further aggravating tensions was a conference in London at the end of January at which corruption was a major topic and Western officials again made clear that they felt Mr. Karzai had fallen short…Corruption remains pervasive, however, and Mr. Karzai has not used his position as a bully pulpit to change the culture. \u201cHe\u2019s slipping away from the West,\u201d said a senior European diplomat in Kabul.\u201d
\nwww.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/29\/world\/asia\/29prexy.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n

After Eight Years, Just Who are We at War With Anyway??? <\/strong>\u201c\u201cBeyond the technical legal issues, this debate is about the fundamental question of whom we are at war with,\u201d said Noah Feldman, a Harvard law professor who specializes in war-power issues. \u201cThe two problems most plaguing Obama in the war on terrorism are trials for terrorists and taking the fight beyond Afghanistan to places like Pakistan and Yemen. This issue of whom we are at war with defines both of them\u201d www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/29force.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n

John Brown\u2019s Life During Wartime Cartoons: www.historiansagainstwar.org\/wartime\/2009.html<\/a>
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\nThe Solidarity Forever Front<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

SEIU Sues its Members and Officers: \u201cIn January 2009, SEIU officials removed the union\u2019s elected officers and suspended its constitution after UHW\u2019s 100-member Executive Board insisted that 65,000 of the union\u2019s members should have a right to a democratic vote before SEIU leaders transferred them to another SEIU affiliate with a history of tolerating corruption and negotiating substandard wages and benefits for its members.\u201d
\nwww.inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/5688\/in_san_francisco_union_democracy_goes_on_trial\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Oakland CA Board Uses Craig\u2019s List to Scabherd:<\/strong> \u201cThe Oakland Unified School District serves approximately 40,000 students in 120 schools and child development centers. In the event of a Work Stoppage, substitute teachers will be needed to teach our students.Rate of Pay: $300 per day.\u201d fwix.com\/sonomacounty\/share\/04e726601a\/scab-wanted_ad_for_oakland_unified_on_craigslist<\/a>
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\nThe Last Big Oakland Teachers\u2019 Strike Analyzed: <\/strong>
\nwww.iww.org\/en\/node\/1955<\/a>
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\nOn the Ooops there Goes the Economy Front: <\/strong><\/span>
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\nDouble Defaults: \u201c\u00a0 More than half of U.S. borrowers who received loan modifications on delinquent mortgages defaulted again<\/strong> after nine months, according to a federal report.The re-default rate of loans modified in the first quarter of 2009 was 51.5 percent by the end of the year, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision said in a joint report today. The figure, which measures payments at least 30 days late, climbed to 57.9 percent for changes made in the prior 12 months. U.S. homeowners are struggling to make payments as depressed housing prices leave them owing more than their properties are worth. About 24 percent of properties with a mortgage were underwater in the fourth quarter,\u201d
\nwww.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601010&sid=aVYxPZ56vjys<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Banks Win Rights to Insider Trading: <\/strong>\u201c… it\u2019s not surprising that big banks would go to court to keep ordinary investors from getting their hands on hot stock research. What is a bit surprising is that the court would actually side with the banks. It\u2019s one of those maddening, \u2018can\u2019t a little guy catch a break?\u2019 moments.\u201dhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/23\/business\/23sorkin.html
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\nCEOs Defy Obama With More Cash Instead of Pay for Performance: <\/strong> Cash became king in corner offices because boards acquiesced to CEOs\u2019 desire for dependable income, according to interviews with 15 compensation experts. Executives, whose pay packages were typically negotiated in 2008 and early last year, weren\u2019t willing to give up salaries for long-term, stock-based awards that could decline in value.
\nwww.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601108&sid=a1wYqBZEwV6g<\/a>
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\nWhat is Up With Carlos Slim, the Vatican, and the New York Times:<\/strong> \u201cwhen Mr. Slim exercises the warrants, he will be among the largest single shareholders in the Times Company, owning up to 17 percent of the common shares outstanding.\u201d
\nwww.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/20\/business\/media\/20times.html<\/a>
\nThen to Here: Carlos Slim and the Legion of Christ: \u201cAmong those providing financing was Carlos Slim, recently ranked by Forbes Magazine as the world’s richest man.\u201d
\nwww.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/20\/business\/media\/20times.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Classics and Poems:<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFrom John Keats\u2019 Isabella, the Pot of Basil:<\/strong>
\n\u201cWith her two brothers this fair lady dwelt,
\nEnriched from ancestral merchandize,
\nAnd for them many a weary hand did swelt
\nIn torched mines and noisy factories,
\nAnd many once proud-quiver\u2019d loins did melt
\nIn blood from stinging whip;\u2014with hollow eyes\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 110
\nMany all day in dazzling river stood,
\nTo take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.\u201d
\nMore here: www.bartleby.com\/126\/38.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Song :
\nGene Autry: www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8mKGnIF7GRE&fea<\/a><\/p>\n

Always be sure you are right, then go ahead<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks to Nancy, Karen B, Terry, Sandra, Peter M, Steve, Faith, Ofira, Amber, Wayne, Cheri and Ken, Bonnie M, Jelly, Bob, Tommie, Katie and Greg, Joel, Sharon, Marc, Marisol, Crystal, Julia, Kim B, Ricky C, Sue H, Candace, and the entire M4 gang.<\/p>\n

Good luck to us, every one.<\/p>\n

r<\/p>\n

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