{"id":24376,"date":"2019-11-09T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=24376"},"modified":"2019-11-10T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T09:33:10","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-so-long-soviet-social-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-so-long-soviet-social-fascists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Comrades Twenty Five Years! And ON!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twenty-five years ago, Prop 187 was an event that spurred the formation of the Rouge Forum as members of College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Studies lead a successful (for a time) movement for the organization to boycott California.<\/div>\n
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I Participate, You Participate, We Participate\u2026\u201d: Notes on Building a K-16 Movement for Democracy and Social Justice (The Dispatch has gone on, in one form or another, ever since)<\/em><\/h1>\n
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  • Greg Queen <\/span><\/li>\n
  • E. Wayne Ross <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Rich Gibson <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Kevin D. Vinson <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Abstract<\/h3>\n

    Prevailing educational practices are guided by educational policies, such as No Child Left Behind Act, that reflect the same obstacles to achieving education for democracy and social justice as identified by John Dewey early in 20th century\u2014namely the powerful alliance of class privilege with philosophies of education that sharply divide mind and body, theory and practice, culture and utility.<\/p>\n

    There is no \u201cone best system\u201d for organizing people to act for positive change, such as creating schools and universities where pedagogy is democratic, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and empowering.<\/p>\n

    The Rouge Forum is one among many groups of committed activists who are contributing to the construction of a K-16 movement for progressive change in education and society and it is our hope that by sharing our experiences in building a grassroots organization that our comrades in this struggle might learn something that advances the movement as a whole and that we might, in turn, learn from them. doi.org\/10.14288\/workplace.v0i10.184644<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    The Prop. 187 rebellion inside the L.A. Times newsroom<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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    It was one of the Los Angeles Times\u2019 most controversial editorials.<\/a><\/p>\n

    In the fall of 1994, California was being torn apart by Proposition 187, the ballot measure that would bar immigrants in California illegally from receiving many public services. The Times Editorial Board strongly opposed Prop. 187, calling it misguided and wrong.<\/p>\n

    But in that same election, The Times decided to endorse Gov. Pete Wilson for reelection. Wilson was a leading supporter of Prop. 187 and had used illegal immigration as a central campaign issue. \u201cAll things considered, Pete Wilson is a leader who deserves a second term as governor,\u201d The Times wrote.<\/p>\n

    The decision sparked a rebellion in The Times\u2019 newsroom, led by senior editor Frank del Olmo. Many in the newsroom felt the conflicting editorial positions were hypocritical. \u00a0 www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-11-08\/rebellion-inside-los-angeles-times-proposition-187-pete-wilson<\/a><\/p>\n