{"id":2773,"date":"2011-04-08T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2011-04-09T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T22:15:59","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-hope-dashed-government-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-hope-dashed-government-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Hope Dashed! Government Exists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Life travels upward in spirals.
\nThose who take pains to search the shadows
\nof the past below us, then, can better judge the
\ntiny arc up which they climb,
\nmore surely guess the dim
\ncurves of the future above them.<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Schools Not Banks Blog With Video of OEA Action vs BoA: <\/strong><\/em>On April 4, nearly 100 Oakland teachers and supporters shut down Wells Fargo Bank’s Oakland City Center branch for three hours, demanding an end to the Great Bank Heist: Bail Out Schools Not Banks and End Foreclosures.Among those who joined the action were longshore workers from ILWU Local 10, who shut down the Port of Oakland and other west coast ports for the entire day. Also present were a group of homeowners whose mortgages were being threatened by Wells Fargo. This was the third and most successful action OEA and allies have held at Wells Fargo branches throughout the city. More actions are planned in the coming weeks. schoolsnotbanks.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/april-4-oakland-rally-to-bail-out.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Noted with Great Surprise, Obamagoge announces candidacy on April 4th, the Day of the AFL-CIO and NEA’s Fake Rallies. <\/strong><\/em> “Dennis, the education agenda is a war agenda. It is a class war and empire’s war agenda. That’s our social context and now we see war to the third power. Are you willing to follow the real path Dr King took before he was killed and speak out against imperialist warfare–for which workers always get the bill? Are you willing to follow Dr King, who was backing a workers’ strike when he was killed, and call for a national school workers’ strike, somewhat like the Michigan Education Association is voting on right now?” www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=2154&section=Article<\/a><\/p>\n