{"id":21237,"date":"2018-04-08T00:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=21237"},"modified":"2018-04-08T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T08:58:52","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-wildcats-real-class-war-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-wildcats-real-class-war-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Wildcats! Real Class War in Schools at Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

www.facebook.com\/cnn\/videos\/10158204075851509\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Teacher Strikes Are Spreading Across America With No End in Sight<\/span><\/h1>\n
They started in West Virginia, then Oklahoma and Kentucky. Now, Arizona could be next. <\/span><\/div>\n

One month after a teachers\u2019 \u201cwildcat<\/a>\u201d strike ended with a deal to hike pay for all West Virgina state employees, teacher strikes are spreading fast across the country, with no clear endgame in sight.<\/p>\n

In Oklahoma, teachers on Monday made good on their threat to shut down hundreds of schools throughout the state, preventing students from taking tests that are required by the end of the school year to ensure federal funding. In Kentucky, schools are closed as well\u2014many because of spring break, others because teachers have swarmed\u00a0the state capitol building in Frankfort. And in Arizona<\/a>, teachers last week gathered at the statehouse in Phoenix with buttons reading \u201cI don\u2019t want to strike, but I will\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-04-02\/teacher-strikes-are-spreading-across-america<\/a><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma teachers WILDCAT strike expected to continue next week<\/h1>\n

Despite a pay raise and Senate proposals to increase state revenue, a state union leader anticipates teachers will continue their walkout on Monday.<\/h2>\n

A teachers strike in Oklahoma stretched into its fifth day on Friday, and a state union leader said he doesn’t think pending proposals to increase revenue are enough to stop the walkout from extending into next week.<\/p>\n

The Senate was expected to consider separate proposals Friday to expand tribal gambling and tax certain internet sales that are expected to generate roughly $40 million annually.<\/p>\n

But Oklahoma Education Association Executive Director David Duvall says he doesn’t think those are enough to keep teachers from walking out again next week.\u00a0 www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/oklahoma-teachers-strike-expected-continue-next-week-n863331<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Deafening Silence of Florida Teachers Unions as a Red Tide of Teacher Rebellion Sweeps the Nation.<\/a><\/h1>\n

Any idea why the unions in these other states seem to be supporter radical teacher action but Florida in particular is not? Is the FEA more entrenched with the AFT\/NEA than the AEA or OEA?<\/p>\n

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I was happy to find your site.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think W. Virginia, Az, OK, etc are led by more radical people in AFT or NEA.<\/p>\n

What happened in W. Va,, where I know more people, was that the rank and file teachers simply acted on their own and AFT and NEA hacks sought to step in front of the direct action movement of the school workers.<\/p>\n

There were really heartening self-organized actions, locally and at the capital. The ranks rejected an initial sellout deal, but eventually got sold out on the main issues of the strike, especially health insurance.<\/p>\n

I believe that will be a pattern elsewhere as educators are stuck: they cannot take much more. They know they must fight, but they don\u2019t know why they must fight, and they still have some faith in the unions, so their actions won\u2019t go far enough this time around. Still, they might. Things can get out of hand.<\/p>\n

It is a wonderful sight to see teachers acting, at last.<\/p>\n

The union bosses want no part of job actions like strikes.<\/p>\n

Why? Because those actions prove the union bosses (whose mission is to sell labor peace to Big Bosses in exchange for dues income\u2013that is exactly the deal\u2013which allows the union bosses to live very, very well) unnecessary, irrelevant. (more here \u00a0 kafkateach.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/29\/the-deafening-silence-of-florida-teacher-unions-as-a-red-tide-of-teacher-rebellion-sweeps-the-nation\/?replytocom=13762#respond<\/a><\/p>\n

below, “Strike” by Huck<\/p>\n

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UM lecturers vote to strike next week<\/h1>\n

University of Michigan lecturers have voted to strike next week unless negotiations lead to a new contract, union leaders announced Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Members of the Lecturers\u2019 Employee Organization, AFT-MI Local 6244, AFL-CIO union<\/a>, which represents 1,700 non-tenure track faculty at UM campuses in Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint, unanimously approved the move this week, the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Talks with the university are slated to continue through Sunday, but union members plan to stop working the next two days \u201cunless there is substantial progress on LEO pay demands and other bargaining issues, including a working title change that will make it easier for departments to recruit and retain high-caliber talent into Lecturer roles,\u201d the release read.<\/p>\n

Their current contract expires April 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working for months to address the crisis of underpayment among the University of Michigan\u2019s core teaching staff,\u201d said Ian Robinson, a lecturer in the Sociology Department at UM Ann Arbor and the president of LEO. \u201cWe\u2019ve got lecturers with children on public assistance, lecturers working two or three jobs, lecturers who are leaving the university because they can\u2019t afford to live on their miserable salaries.\u201d\u00a0 www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/education\/2018\/04\/05\/um-lecturers-strike\/33564193\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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above poster from May, 1968. Mayday is coming!<\/em> More here www.google.com\/search?q=france+may+68+posters&client=firefox-b-1-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWiOjNrpbaAhVQ7mMKHa2SAJkQ_AUICigB&biw=768&bih=485#imgrc=4NDP53ZhX7QH4M<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Howard University students end occupation of administration building<\/h1>\n

Howard University students and officials announced an end Friday to a lengthy occupation of the administration building at the historically black college, a student protest that put a spotlight on long-simmering grievances.<\/p>\n

The deal between university trustees and students promises that students will be involved in reviewing the adequacy of on-campus housing at the Northwest Washington school. It also makes pledges about improving the reporting of sexual violence and holding the line on tuition.<\/p>\n

The students had called for the resignation of Howard\u2019s embattled president,\u00a0Wayne A.I. Frederick,\u00a0but he attended the press conference announcing the pact, and there is no mention of him in the resolution issued by the school\u2019s Board of Trustees.\u00a0 (WAPO April 6)<\/p>\n

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Class War In France, 50 years after the “May Days.”<\/h1>\n

Travellers to, from, within and over France face another round of problems this weekend as some air-traffic controllers join railway workers<\/a> and Air France <\/a>staff in industrial action.<\/p>\n

Controllers based at the Marseille area control centre will strike all weekend against proposals for more flexible rostering.<\/p>\n

The strike will affect aircraft flying over south-east France at 15,000 feet or above. It could hit a significant number of flights to and from the UK, where Easter holiday traffic is augmented by late-season ski flights to the French, Swiss and Italian Alps.<\/p>\n

The airline said: \u201cOur flight schedule for this day will be disrupted. The adaptation of this flight schedule is under study.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous industrial action has grounded about a quarter of Air France flights, including some services connecting Heathrow, Manchester and Edinburgh with Paris Charles de Gaulle and about 30 per cent of long-haul departures.<\/p>\n

The unions are demanding a pay increase of 6 per cent; the airline is offering 1 per cent. They have announced additional strikes on 10, 11, 17, 18, 23 and 24 April 2018. Passengers booked on strike days can switch to alternative dates without penalty.<\/p>\n

On Sunday and Monday, millions of rail passengers in France face another round of disruption with the second of a series of 18 two-day strikes. The dispute centres on moves to tackle the losses at SNCF, the national rail operator, and prepare for competition from 2020.<\/p>\n

The series of rolling two-day strikes began on 3 and 4 April, when only 14 per cent of long-distance trains operated. www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/france-strikes-latest-updates-air-traffic-control-railways-sncf-eurostar-passengers-a8291311.html<\/a><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\/videos\/10155225222571800\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Call For Papers<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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AESA President-elect Roland Sintos Coloma (Northern Kentucky University) and the 2018 Program Committee are pleased to announce the theme for the 2018 Annual Meeting: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDare We Build a New Global Order?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The AESA annual meeting will be held on November 7-11, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Greenville in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) was founded in 1968 in the midst of major upheaval and change in the United States and across the globe. From protests against empire, war, and militarism, to demands for civil rights, economic reforms, and inclusive education, it was a turbulent period that fundamentally challenged the United States\u2019 own foundations internally and internationally. The calls for social change took place in the classrooms and the streets, in legal courts and popular culture, in political conventions and the Olympics. Fifty years later, we confront similar realities and advocacies within the current context of neoliberalism and cosmopolitanism. The struggles against white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, labor and class exploitation, ableism, environmental degradation, religious fundamentalism, nativism and narrow nationalism continue to marshal individuals and collectives for a future worth fighting for. In these struggles, both in the past and present, are the radical hope and promise of a sociality and polity underpinned by equity, intersectionality, justice, and love.<\/p>\n

As AESA celebrates its 50th<\/sup> anniversary in 2018 and projects its next 50 years, how do we pursue and engage in intellectual, pedagogical, and political projects that envision and enact a different global order? How do we analyze \u201cAmerica\u201d and the tools and effects of its hard and soft powers, while simultaneously decentering it? In what ways can we situate our work as researchers, educators, and activists that locates the United States within transnational frames and the global flows of ideas, people, money, and technologies? How do we resist the audit culture of standardization, testing, and ranking and the commodification of critical knowledges at local, national, and global scales? What can we learn from ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies from below and elsewhere, from the margins and the borderlands, from the Indigenous and the migrants, from those considered non-normative, illegible, or disposable? What happens when we create and employ a different grammar of critique, transformation, and possibility? What kind of future might we build together, and what difference might this difference make?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

we invite panel, interactive workshop, and individual paper submissions on a wide range of topics that may include, but are not limited to, the annual meeting theme.<\/p>\n

Submission Process and Timeline:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Submit electronically via AESA website (www.educationalstudies.org<\/a>) to All Academic Inc.<\/li>\n
  • Submission will be open from March 1, 2018 to May 1, 2018 (11:59 pm PDT)<\/li>\n
  • Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by August 1, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    For more information about AESA and the conference, please email AESA2018conference@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Victory Over Military Cop Convention<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    On March 27, the San Francisco Bay Area\u2019s Stop Urban Shield Coalition claimed victory in its four-year battle to stop Urban Shield, a war games and weapons convention for cops held in Alameda County every year since 2007. Critical Resistance <\/a>, one of the most active members of the coalition, wrote on its website:<\/p>\n

    Urban Shield represents everything our movements are fighting against \u2014 from collaborating and training with ICE, hosting the white supremacist militia the Oath Keepers, training with and sending officers to apartheid Israel, glorifying policing and militarization, exploiting tragedies and natural disasters and public health needs, and continuing to align with Alameda County Sheriff Ahern\u2019s support of the Trump Administration \u2014 Urban Shield has no place in the Bay Area or anywhere.\u2028\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n

    I spoke to Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of Media Alliance and co-facilitator of Oa <\/a>kland Privacy <\/a>, a citizen\u2019s coalition that works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. She has worked with the Stop Urban Shield Coalition since 2014.<\/p>\n

    Ann Garrison:<\/strong> Tracy, Americans from Ferguson, Missouri to North Pole, Alaska, and equally remote corners of the US, have all seen their police armed and trained with military-grade weapons, but they might not have heard of the annual Urban Shield military cops convention held in the Bay Area since 2007. Could you describe Urban Shield and its history?<\/p>\n

    Tracy Rosenberg:<\/strong> Urban Shield grew out of the gradual merger of first responder training and counterterrorism training.\u00a0 blackagendareport.com\/victory-over-military-cop-convention<\/a><\/p>\n

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    In response to racist violence, more African Americans look to bear arms<\/h1>\n

    (Video inside) The National African American Gun Association, known as NAAG, has tripled its chapters from 14 to 42 since President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration, as more people of color join gun clubs and refute the NRA. Some say they are defending themselves against racism and supporting a call to arms amid a civil rights struggle. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Simon Ostrovsky reports.\u00a0 www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/in-response-to-racist-violence-more-african-americans-look-to-bear-arms<\/a><\/p>\n

    www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvVL6wo71SQ<\/a><\/p>\n

    Supplicants! Opportunists! Dilettante<\/span>s!! Toadies! Party on! You have nothing to lose but integrity. Try the Dom Perignon.<\/h1>\n

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    Freire was a devout Catholic. Ridiculous.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    He was always complaining about being in exile. Put me in exile in Switzerland with a plum job with the World Council of Churches and you won\u2019t hear a peep.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    He was a revolutionary wherever he wasn\u2019t and liberal wherever he was. When he returned to Brazil, he went to work for the hack Lula and complained about the school buildings, not the core of instruction.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    He was a plagiarist. See the \u201cTexts of Paulo Freire.\u201d He stole a lot of his material from Dom Halder<\/strong> <\/em>Camera, a Brazilian trying to defeat communists with liberation theology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    He built an opportunist little publishing cult around himself, then insisted, too much, on his own humility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    He sought to mix Che, Lenin, Mao, and others\u2013add postmodernism– uncritically. Stupid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    His last wife is\/was a gutter racist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Nobody can fully explain how he goes from Brazil to Chile to Harvard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Critical consciousness is not class consciousness. That is a dodge\u2013part of the Freire hustle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    He claimed to \u201cinvent\u201d a teaching method that probably predated Socrates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    He is a dead end. richgibson.com\/rouge_forum\/CSSE2008\/GibsonCSSE2008.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Freire’s Social-Nationalist Pal, Lula, off to prison for stealing from the people<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    The former president of Brazil, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, was found guilty of corruption and money laundering on Wednesday and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, a stunning setback for a politician who has wielded enormous influence across Latin America for decades.<\/p>\n

    The case against Mr. da Silva, who raised Brazil\u2019s profile on the world stage as president from 2003 to 2010, stemmed from charges that he and his wife illegally received about $1.1 million in improvements and expenses from a construction company for a beachfront apartment.<\/p>\n

    In exchange, prosecutors said, the company was able to obtain lucrative contracts from Petrobras<\/a>, the state-controlled oil giant.\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/world\/americas\/brazil-lula-prison.html<\/a><\/p>\n