{"id":6557,"date":"2012-03-30T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2012-03-30T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:11:04","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-no-bribes-undermining-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-no-bribes-undermining-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: No Bribes, Undermining Lies."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Strike! Mayday!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eShVAggCNcI<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan Ohanian Will be a Keynote Speaker at the Rouge Forum Conference<\/strong> Susan\u2019s advocacy work keeps at its core her 20 years as a teacher. Her more than 300 essays on education issues have appeared in periodicals ranging from Phi Delta Kappan cover stories to The Atlantic, Nation, USA Today, Washington Monthly, Extra! (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), and numerous education journals. One of her 26 book on education policy and practice introduced the word Standardisto.<\/p>\n

Although currently censored at the NCTE online discussion site, Susan\u2019s website received NCTE\u2019s George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honest and Clarity in Public Language. She has delivered the annual MacClement Lecture for Excellence in Education, Queens University, Ontario, Canada, the Helen Oakes lecture at Temple University, and the Biber Lecture, Bank Street College, New York.
\nSusan notes that although she\u2019s been a featured speaker at both the International Symposium for the Educational Welfare in Seoul, Korea, and British Columbia Teachers\u2019 Federation events, her talk to the Progressive Caucus of the AFT was closed down by angry hoots from the audience.<\/p>\n

Susan started a website to protest the passage of NCLB. She had hoped to shut it down by now, but things keep getting worse, so she persists.<\/p>\n

Call for Proposals
\nRouge Forum 2012
\nOCCUPY EDUCATION! Class Conscious Pedagogies for Social Change
\nJune 22-24, 2012
\nMiami University
\nOxford, OH
\nProposals Due April 15, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rouge Forum 2012 will be held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The University\u2019s picturesque campus is located 50 minutes northwest of Cincinnati. The conference will be held June 22-24, 2012.
\nProposals for papers, panels, performances, workshops, and other multimedia presentations should include title(s) and names and contact information for presenter(s). The deadline for sending proposals is April 15. The Steering Committee will email acceptance notices by May 1. (details rougeforum2012.wordpress.com\/rf-2012-call-for-proposals\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

French Workers Detain Boss<\/strong> Translated from Lib\u00e9ration, March 26, 2012
\nBruno Ferrec, the boss of the nine FNAC stores in Paris, has been held by his workers since the beginning of the afternoon, according to several trade unions. At 2 p.m., some 120 workers shut themselves in with him in a meeting room in the Hotel Ibis in the rue des Plantes in the 16th arrondissement. At 7:30 p.m. they were still there, and the situation seemed to be completely gridlocked.
\nToday the last round of the obligatory annual negotiations on wages was to be held. Hardly convinced by the offers of Bruno Ferrec (who is applying the program of “wage moderation” desired by the national office) the workers decided to go into high gear.
\n“Animated discussions”
\nChristian Lecanu, a representative of the CGT trade union, described the scene: “The ambiance on our side is rather good-humored. Mr. Ferrec is in the middle of the room, he is listening, and he keeps repeating that `the negotiations are over.’ For the moment, we don’t know when we’ll let him go.
\nQuestioned by Lib\u00e9ration.fr through the trade unionists present in the room, Bruno Ferrec had no comment.
\nBeyond the case of Bruno Ferrec, “who accuses us of not working enough and of having put the company’s books into the red,” Christian Lecanu condemns the directors of the company for their “catastrophic strategy.” “They all come from the world of supermarkets, they don’t know our business.”
\nPhilippe Grauli\u00e8re, a representative of the SUD trade union, went further: “We’ll lay siege to the meeting room as long as management remains prostrate in its silence. They’re imposing a wage freeze whereas, at the same time, the PPR corportation [the owner of FNAC – editor’s note] is announcing the distribution of dividends. This whole affair truly proves that the regional directors are just the executors of a policy that is desired higher up.”<\/p>\n