{"id":3082,"date":"2011-05-13T23:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T07:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2011-05-14T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:32:30","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-the-education-agenda-is-a-war-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-the-education-agenda-is-a-war-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: The Education Agenda Is A War Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say FightBack!<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Breaking News! Michigan Education Association Votes for One-day State Wide Strike but MEA bosses Don’t want Members to Know about the Vote! According to highly placed insiders at MEA, key leaders were informed of the vote count but told not to spread the word as MEA tops want to keep member action in the electoral arena. (if voting mattered they wouldn’t let us do it).<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Oakland EA Takes Lead in Making Fake CTA Action More Real But Attacked by CTA Hacks: <\/strong>“We’re not just here to lobby,” Betty Olson-Jones, president of the Oakland Education Association, told the crowd before the arrests took place. “We’re here to raise some hell.”\u00a0 blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2011\/05\/chp-begins-arresting-protestor.html<\/a><\/p>\n

An Email Exchange on CTA’s Counterfeit Rallies to Tax<\/strong> Workers<\/strong><\/p>\n

…<\/strong>I was in Sacramento yesterday morning and early afternoon. I was, frankly, disgusted at what I saw. CTA turned out — maybe — 300 people. That’s their claim. Their noon “mass” rally had well under 200 attending. Folks, CTA State Council has 800 members, who voted UNANIMOUSLY for this week’s activities, and they have several hundred paid staffers. They should have been able to turn out at least 2,000 people without really trying. But that wasn’t their plan. Their plan is to keep a lid on things, to keep everything under their control, and to make this a week of lobbying. I was hoping that thousands would show up, because then CTA’s control might have been overridden and an occupation might have been sustained….richgibson.com\/FakeCTA.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

NEA Tops Move to Back Obamagogue, Again: <\/strong>Now, after a third war (ok by most fake educators), $12.9 trillion of financial bailouts to the banksters, Arne Duncan, a full scale assault on reason and wages in school, 2.3 million mostly poor and black people incarcerated, attacks on immigrants that exceed the Bush era, a speech about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden that dripped with mysticism, nationalism and treacle, the refusal to publish the OBL photos denying he’s a trophy, then a victory lap at “ground zero” , and a very real promise of perpetual war matched by booming inequality as the bill for foreign invasions comes home to workers\u2013after all this, NEA wants to be an early endorser of Arne Duncan.richgibson.com\/NEAtops.htm<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Huntington Park High, LA, Kids Walk Out: <\/strong>An estimated 250 to 300 students from Huntington Park High School organized a walkout to protest the anticipated replacement of at least half the school\u2019s teachers.
\nThe Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled to vote Tuesday afternoon on the aggressive school-improvement strategy, which has been pushed by board member Yolie Flores, a graduate of Huntington Park High who represents the are latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/05\/huntington-park-high-students-walk-out-to-protest-pending-removal-of-teachers.html<\/a><\/p>\n