{"id":24401,"date":"2019-11-16T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2019-11-17T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T21:57:30","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-passion-and-wisdom-for-equality-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-passion-and-wisdom-for-equality-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Passion and Wisdom for Equality and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Little Rock teachers to go on strike after state strips collective bargaining power<\/h1>\n

Teachers will go on strike for one day this week over a state panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student district, union officials said Monday.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0strike set for Thursday<\/a> will be only the second time teachers have walked out of the job in the city’s history. The Little Rock Education Association’s announcement came\u00a0after the state Board of Education voted in October to\u00a0no longer recognize\u00a0the union<\/a> when the contract expired Oct. 31.<\/p>\n

Union leaders\u00a0call\u00a0for the state to give them back their bargaining power. Before the contract ended, the Little Rock School District had been the only one in Arkansas where a teachers union had collective bargaining power.<\/p>\n

The union wants to see full local control of the district restored. Arkansas has run Little Rock’s schools since the state board took over the district in January 2015 because of low test scores at several schools.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2019\/11\/11\/little-rock-teacher-strike-date-announced-bargaining-power-stripped\/2563148001\/?fbclid=IwAR3OsBJVtj3sm7qDGqxz-qL64EqDyRo-wZ9DReNSdDAeSFxKIy7NI2jjwPQ<\/a><\/p>\n

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More Than 100 West County Teachers And Staff To Go On Strike<\/h1>\n

More than 100 west Sonoma County High School Teachers and Staff are going on strike. The West Sonoma County Teachers Association will begin their strike tomorrow as they fight for new contracts that include more pay among other terms. The association represents 110 teachers and staff at Analy, El Molino and Laguna High Schools. Association officials say west county teacher salaries are lagging behind the state average.\u00a0\u00a0 www.ksro.com\/2019\/11\/12\/more-than-100-west-county-teachers-and-staff-to-go-on-strike\/?fbclid=IwAR3KW4A56KugR0pB7lyhKtDCy-X1u08aDEItC3Z9ZVStxTdM1nKsyLTnM5M<\/a><\/p>\n

Iraq protests: Top Shia cleric gives support to protests<\/h1>\n

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Iraq’s top Shia cleric has given his support to protests calling for an end to rampant corruption and mass unemployment.<\/p>\n

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, 89, said the government was deluded if it believed it could avoid real reform through stalling and delaying tactics.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets since 1 October with wide-ranging demands.<\/p>\n

An explosion in central Baghdad killed at least two people on Friday.<\/p>\n

Iraqi security officials said the blast happened near Tahrir square, the centre of the anti-government demonstrations. More than a dozen others were injured.<\/p>\n

At least 319 people have been killed at the protests, where security forces have fired live rounds and tear gas.<\/p>\n

Protesters are demanding more jobs, an end to corruption, and better public services.\u00a0 www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-50440110<\/a><\/p>\n

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Uprisings in Bolivia: Coup after failure of mix of identity politics and social democracy<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n

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Can a Nationalist Hong Kong Battle against China’s Social Fascists Morph into a mass class conscious movement vs tyranny?<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n

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