{"id":236,"date":"2010-04-11T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2010-04-11T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:49:26","slug":"rouge-forum-update-special-einstein-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-update-special-einstein-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Update: Special Einstein and Zapata Edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>April 11 Einstein Releases Theory of Relativity (1905): Einstein on Why Socialism?<\/strong> \u201cThe individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society. The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. \u201d monthlyreview.org\/598einstein.php<\/a><\/p>\n

April 10, 1919, Zapata Murdered: <\/strong>“In the course of his campaigns, Zapata distributed lands taken from the haciendas, which he frequently burned without compensation..:<\/p>\n

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

Send Your Articles, Photos, Cartoons, for the RF News to Community Coordinator Adam Renner (arenner@bellarmine.edu<\/a>).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On the Little Rouge School Front:<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAFT Sells Out DC Teachers in Innovative Ways: Accepts Merit Pay, Waltons and Broad\u2019s Buy the Teachers, Phony Raise Included:<\/strong> \u201cThe private funding sources for the contract are expected to draw scrutiny from teachers and council members. The proposed pay package would be financed with grants from four private donors: the Eli and Edythe Broad, Laura and John Arnold, Robertson and Walton Family foundations….The pay package covers five years, with base salary increases of 3, 3, 5, 4 and 5 percent. If the council ratifies the deal, the first 11 percent will be paid retroactively to the District’s 3,800 teachers, who have not had a raise in nearly three years. The other major piece of the deal would allow officials more freedom in deciding whether to retain teachers who are “excessed” when schools are closed because of budget or enrollment issues. Under the proposal, teachers would be cut according to a formula that gives greatest weight to the previous year’s evaluation. Seniority would receive least weight.\u201d
\nwww.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/06\/AR2010040604392.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Opportunism, Sectarianism, Education, Ravitch, Education and Change:” <\/strong>What is Ravitch defending? Methods to buttress capitalism. The rest is details. She is still a propagandist for witless patriotism; the vile notion that we should ally with our nation’s ruling class as they make war on us and others. It’s suicide through class unity.” richgibson.com\/opportunismravitch.html<\/a>
\n Brit Teachers Prep Test Boycotts:<\/strong> \u201cSats only gave children the right to pass exams, not the right “to be educated in the round”. They reduced children to “little bundles of measurable outputs trained in a mechanistic model of education…\u201d
\nwww.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2010\/apr\/06\/nut-conference-sats-tests-blower<\/a><\/p>\n

Zionists Move to Take Over Berkeley Student Government:<\/strong> \u201cHow are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We\u2019re going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation\u2019s capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation\u2019s campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

AIPAC: We’ll take over Cal’s student government<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n