{"id":7958,"date":"2012-09-08T21:44:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T05:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2012-09-08T21:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T05:45:05","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-chicago-versus-barbarism-wear-red-on-910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-chicago-versus-barbarism-wear-red-on-910\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Chicago School Workers Versus Barbarism! Wear Red on 9\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Build International Support for the Chicago Strike Against the Barbarous US Ruling Class <\/strong>Cars were parked two deep at the CTU Strike Headquarters as delegates and strike captains picked up the signs and information for their schools. It was September 8, 2012, less than 48 hours from the beginning of the first strike by the Chicago Teachers Union in a quarter century. Almost every vehicle that drove by on Ashland Ave. honked in solidarity.
\nThe abundance of press could not overshadow the red sea of folks waiting for signs, strings and shirts. \u00a0http:\/\/www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=3575&section=Article<\/p>\n

Lufthansa on Strike <\/strong>Lufthansa flight attendants walked off the job for eight hours on Friday at the Frankfurt airport, causing the cancellation of more than 220 flights. Their union warned of more stoppages unless the airline gave in to its demands. Lufthansa, Germany\u2019s largest airline, said it canceled more than 220 short- and medium-haul flights from and to Frankfurt, including routes across Europe, after about 1,000 cabin crew members went on strike. A small number of long-haul flights were canceled as well, among them services to and from New York, Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Seattle. An airline spokesman, Klaus Walther, accused the union of putting its demands \u201con the back of the customers.\u201d The union called the strike after 13 months of negotiations for higher pay and guarantees on conditions failed to produce an agreement. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/01\/business\/global\/strike-by-lufthansa-attendants-grounds-flights.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y<\/p>\n

Miners to Criminal Killers of Mandella Regime: Raised Finger <\/strong> A militant union refused to sign a peace deal with the platinum company Lonmin on Thursday, undermining government-backed efforts to open pay talks and end a four-week strike scarred by deadly violence. Though Lonmin signed the accord with the National Union of Mineworkers and other labor groups, representatives of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union declined to accept the deal. Miners affiliated with the A.M.C.U. at the Marikana platinum mine, where the police killed 34 strikers last month, said they were not interested in a deal that failed to include a wage increase to $1,500 a month, double what they now earn. \u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/07\/world\/africa\/south-africa-union-snubs-a-deal.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hey Obamagogue! Free Bradley Manning and Jail your War Criminals! <\/strong> On the day of President Obama\u2019s DNC nomination acceptance speech, protesters in 34 cities acoss the United States targeted local Obama campaign headquarters to demand the President free accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower and Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning. International supporters, in Australia and the U.K., also protested at U.S. embassies.
\nIn each city, supporters delivered a letter to the campaign, outlining their demands. The letter called on President Obama to release Bradley Manning and account for the abusive treatment he endured in the Quantico Marine Brig. \u00a0http:\/\/www.bradleymanning.org\/news\/releases\/nationwide-protests-at-obama-campaign-offices-for-pfc-bradley-manning<\/p>\n

UMass: Rehire Professor Madeloni<\/strong> (petition) \u00a0We are writing to express grave concern about the non-renewal of Professor Barbara Madeloni from her position as Director of the Secondary Teacher Education Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education. \u00a0 www.change.org\/petitions\/university-of-massachusetts-at-amherst-rehire-professor-madeloni-and-protect-academic-freedom-2<\/a><\/p>\n

The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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California Gutting Colleges <\/strong>(the six year degree and then what?) \u00a0With state budget cuts forcing California’s public universities to shrink their course offerings, earning a bachelor’s degree in four years is becoming even more difficult for many students.
\n“One winter quarter, there were so few classes, I could only get three out of five offered,” said David Allison, a senior at California State University San Bernardino. “CSU is no longer a four-year institution. It’s more like a five- or six-year institution.”
\nAs the fall semester gets under way, students at the University of California, the California State University and California Community Colleges are feeling the pinch of $2.5 billion in cuts to the state’s public higher education budget over the past three years. \u00a0..Referendum opponents, however, say Brown is using the threat of more higher education cuts as a stick to get support for the tax plan. If Brown wanted to fund higher education, he could reform public pensions and drop expensive projects like the bullet train, said Aaron McLear, spokesman for Californians for Reforms and Jobs, Not Taxes.
\n“He’s using students as a pawn,” McLear said.
\nTuition at CSU and UC has roughly doubled over the past five years. Students at UC, which serves 220,000 students at 10 campuses, pay $13,202 in tuition and fees. At CSU, which has 425,000 students across its 23 campuses, tuition and fees run $7,017.
\nThe state’s 112 community colleges have seen tuition and fees soar 77 percent over the past three years, to about $1,500 a year for a fulltime student.
\nAt the same time, professors have been laid off, the number of classes reduced and admissions curtailed.
\nEnrollment at the state’s community colleges has plunged from 2.9 million in 2008 to 2.4 million in 2011. This fall, 470,000 students are on waitlists for courses, the chancellor’s office said.
\nCSU, meanwhile, closed the door on most admissions for the spring semester, shutting out 16,000 students. \u00a0http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/sep\/01\/calif-students-face-rocky-path-to-graduation\/<\/p>\n

Legislator Dumps Bill Calif TA spent Millions on <\/strong> Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh-hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.
\nAssemblyman Felipe Fuentes (D-Sylmar) had revived a long-dormant bill, AB 5, in the last few weeks of the legislative session to push forward his plan for a statewide uniform teacher evaluation system featuring more performance reviews, classroom observations, training of evaluators and public input into the review process.
\nBut the bill, supported by the powerful California Teachers Assn., attracted a firestorm of criticism over the costs to financially strapped districts and the requirement to negotiate with unions every element of evaluations, including the use of state standardized test scores. Teachers unions have vociferously argued that test scores are too unreliable for use in key personnel decisions. \u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-teacher-eval-bill-20120901,0,7899998.story<\/p>\n

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800 Detroit Teachers Still Laid off and Hundreds More will Never get a Job Back. DFTdoes 0. <\/strong> www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20120828\/SCHOOLS\/208280401\/1026\/DPS-recalls-2-500-teachers-start-school<\/a><\/p>\n

Child Abusers Celebrate! Test Scores Up <\/strong> California students continued making strides on standardized English and math tests based on results released Friday, but less than half of the students in Los Angeles are performing at grade level.
\nIn all, 57% of California students scored as proficient or better in English and 51% scored that high in math. In the L.A. Unified School District, those numbers were 48% in English and 45% in math.
\n“The good news has been the steady progress despite the chaos of budget cuts,” state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said. “California has gone from having only one student in three score proficient, to better than one student in two \u2014 900,000 more students than in 2003. This is not anything to rest upon, but it is a considerable measure of progress. We’re headed in the right direction.” \u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0901-test-scores-2-20120901,0,2042992.story<\/p>\n

NEA’S $465,000 a Year Loves “Don’t Back Down,”–tears flow <\/strong>\u201cI didn’t really think I would like it but I did,\u201d Van Roekel said. \u201cIt’s a great movie. It made me cry three times.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/247785-teachers-unions-differ-on-approach-to-controversial-education-film
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The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 8th, Anniversary of the Siege of Leningrad<\/strong><\/p>\n