{"id":22424,"date":"2019-01-06T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22424"},"modified":"2019-01-06T01:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:51:57","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-his-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-his-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: HIS MAMA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One-half Million Children will join the UTLA Strike if it happens on January 10th.<\/h1>\n

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Today, less than 24 hours after it was filed, a federal court denied LAUSD\u2019s request to stop special education teachers from joining their colleagues on strike<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court\u2019s swift and decisive action shows just how desperate a move this was,\u201d said UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl. \u201cAustin Beutner knew he didn\u2019t have a legal leg to stand on but he went ahead anyway, spreading fear and confusion among the public, our members, special education students and families. The scare tactics must end now.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, LAUSD filed a\u00a0claim\u00a0in federal court\u00a0to prevent UTLA special education teachers from striking. The threatened teachers\u00a0immediately took to social media to vent their anger at LAUSD\u2019s attempt to prevent them from exercising their right.\u00a0This sneaky maneuver\u00a0\u2014especially coming from a district that has repeatedly ignored UTLA\u2019s contract demands for special education class-size caps to relieve the burden of overcrowded special education classrooms \u2013\u00a0is beyond cynical and counterproductive. (Read the conversations on numerous posts on our Facebook page\u00a0here. <www.facebook.com\/UTLAnow\/<\/a>>)<\/p>\n

In two days, Beutner has used his high-priced lawyers to initiate two frivolous legal actions against UTLA and is now threatening a third. These tactics smack of disdain for the very school district he is meant to serve and protect.\u00a0\u00a0 www.utla.net\/news\/federal-court-throws-out-lausds-request-strike-injunction-against-special-education-teachers?fbclid=IwAR1LalFPTrDp8_Dx4IIyYE7Rf0WmibXH4eXjPzMs8FsMFYA9NZ5T52umfLk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports<\/h1>\n
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Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight.<\/div>\n
“This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect,” Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.<\/div>\n
TSA spokesman Michael Bilello said the agency is “closely monitoring the situation” and that “screening wait times remain well within TSA standards,” although that could change if the number of call outs increases.\u00a0 www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/04\/politics\/shutdown-tsa-screening\/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3PheALS4_RMiFoRx606eH_9cvY2FSbvHdCflZ0UhzBem47FGGK6fMUb-c<\/a><\/div>\n
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Denmark Vesey monument unveiled before hundreds<\/h1>\n

In 1799, Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in the East Bay Lottery. He spent part of the money, $600, to purchase his freedom.<\/p>\n

Vesey would go on to help start Hampstead AME Church downtown and agitate for others\u2019 education and freedom. The violence perpetrated by whites against blacks – attacks both legal and physical<\/a>, including assaults on the church – convinced him that rebellion was justified.<\/p>\n

Vesey and his co-conspirators plotted insurrection but were exposed by informants. The repercussions were fierce: Vesey and 34 others were publicly hanged, 37 more were banished, four whites were fined and the church building was destroyed. www.postandcourier.com\/features\/arts_and_travel\/denmark-vesey-monument-unveiled-before-hundreds\/article_35622532-8a45-5060-a819-0e33a47c8a20.html?fbclid=IwAR2MJ63Rn4L0Sx7jksCDPsU5zdyafab99D-exMrbE-I_QmGQZNyrHchrb00<\/a><\/p>\n

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American Navy nurse Susan Schnall was dismissed from service and sentenced to six months of hard labour for protesting against the American war in Vi\u1ec7t Nam in 1969. In March she visited Vi\u1ec7t Nam for a fifth time with other 22 American veterans. They took part in a commemoration of the M\u1ef9 Lai Massacre and the opening of an exhibition called Waging Peace at the War Remnants Museum in HCM City to display for the first time the newspapers, photographs, posters and films circulated underground by the GI peace movement. Vi\u1ec7t Nam News spoke with Schnal.<\/em><\/p>\n

How were you involved with the American war in Vi\u1ec7t Nam?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From 1967 to 1969 I was a Navy nurse at Oak Knoll Hospital, which was built during World War II in Oakland, California, to care for Marines wounded in the Pacific. I had joined the service to alleviate suffering by caring for wounded troops from the war in Vi\u1ec7t Nam.<\/p>\n

It was at night that the screams of pain and fear would start at Oak Knoll. Each unit was a long wooden shack holding 40 old-fashioned steel-framed hospital beds filled with young men. At night they would dream their nightmares of war, of dead and dying buddies, rotting in the dense jungles of Vi\u1ec7t Nam. They would scream in agony: \u201cMy leg, my leg, it\u2019s been blown away\u201d,\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m in pain, Nurse, Nurse, please give me something for the pain.”<\/p>\n

On my evening shift I would make rounds through the five buildings for which I was responsible: I would open the narcotics cabinet and dispense pain medication, talking with patients, trying to soothe their fears and quieten their moans.<\/p>\n

Why and when did you start to protest the war?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1968 was the height of the war. I watched the battles on TV and lived the war at work. For me it was very personal. My father, a Marine, was killed on the beachhead of Guam on July 22, 1944. He felt he had to do his share and help give something to this world. I never knew my father except through pictures, letters and others\u2019 memories. World War II was a war I\u2019ve lived my whole life. It destroyed my mother and her hopes and dreams and future.<\/p>\n

As I cared for the wounded of yet another war, I wondered when this destruction would end. I trained the corpsmen that would be sent overseas with the troops and put in harm\u2019s way. I helped heal the wounded so they could be returned to the frontline. I opposed this terrible destruction and waste and yet I had become a part of it. I knew I could no longer be silent.vietnamnews.vn\/sunday\/424735\/us-navy-nurse-jailed-for-protest-revisits-vn.html#0z34UmxfgC4TTwze.97<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Do You Know the Seven Factors That Comprise \u201cJust Cause\u201d?<\/h1>\n

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  1. The employee knew of the company\u2019s policy<\/li>\n
  2. The company\u2019s policy was reasonable<\/li>\n
  3. The company investigated to determine that the employee violated the policy<\/li>\n
  4. The investigation was fair and objective<\/li>\n
  5. Substantial evidence existed of the employee\u2019s violation of the policy<\/li>\n
  6. The company\u2019s policy was consistently applied<\/li>\n
  7. The discipline was reasonable and proportional (the punishment fit the crime).\u00a0\u00a0 www.laboremploymentperspectives.com\/2013\/05\/20\/do-you-know-the-seven-factors-that-comprise-just-cause\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n