Once again, Glenda Ritz is under threat of losing her authority granted to her by the citizens of Indiana….who voted more for her than Pence.
Calling all Hoosiers…send out emails to have your voice heard. Don’t let Pence become a dictator!
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Protected: Let them eat cake…
Sherman and Crabtree
I’m not a big football fan, but have caught the controversy surrounding Richard Sherman and his opponent, Michael Crabtree.
I think the whole thing has been blown waaaay out of proportion. Sherman wasn’t threatening Crabtree with physical violence. Should he have toned it down a bit? Yes, in my opinion. But it’s not on the level of being a thug, as some have referred to him.
Ed Schultz was talking about it, and Sherman has questioned whether “thug” is the new word for the n-word. I don’t know, but I don’t think so.
I do find it interesting that the media, which framed this message in a way that almost guaranteed Sherman would be flamed for what happened. The video is cut off to *just* Sherman’s rant….instead of showing the entire context with Crabtree pushing Sherman away after Sherman offered to shake hands. That is why Sherman went off. Again, it wasn’t the wisest thing, but yeah, not a crime, either.
~~As a side note, MSNBC, via Ed Schultz, is once again trying to push Hillary Clinton for president with yet another talking head declaring that “everybody” wants Clinton for candidate. Bullshit.
I find it ironic that Ed is blasting the new super secret trade agreement, TPP, while promoting Hillary Clinton for president. She is in the back pocket of Wall Street, and Big Oil, and the war profiteers. Her husband signed NAFTA into law which drove our economy into the toilet…and here Schultz was promoting her. Unreal.
Teacher’s experience in Gulen Charter school
Diane Ravitch has an account of a teacher’s experience in a Gulen charter school. Unreal.
No books. And teachers with 100 students limited to 25 copies per day. Money missing from their paychecks unaccounted for. Seriously?
All of this is flying under the radar because the mainstream media is not only not covering the Newark 5, they’re not covering the criminal and unethical activities of people running charter schools.
…but they’ll be more than happy to run story after story of bad teachers in public schools…
Mi’kmaq Warriors begin tour
Mi’kmaq Warriors will begin a speaking tour on the environmental protests against fracking, but also pipelines and tar sands.
“We are all being systematically displaced within our own traditional territories,” Patles explained. “Once they destroy our territories and these resource companies are gone, we will be the ones left with destroyed land and poisoned water.”
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Again, we have the disaster capitalism…take the resources without even paying for them, and then leave poisoned land and water. And no, I don’t think the Mi’kmaq would take money even if it were offered to them. Their spirituality cannot be bought…and the Earth is seen as connected to the Creator…
You can’t buy clean air, clean water, nor clean land after it’s been poisoned. This point seems to always be lost on politicians and energy companies who couldn’t care less what happens to people after the fact…
The Newark Five: Being heard
The Chalk Face has a video up of the Newark principals who were put on indefinite layoff (fired) for exercising their right to Free Speech. (hat tip GF Brandenburg)
This is probably the only place you’ll hear them…because no one in the mainstream media is covering this. It is a hot topic going by the amount of activity my blog has received. This should be a top story on the networks…and yet…*crickets*.
Why?
Occupy Monsanto protests
Occupy Monsanto is organizing a protest on January 28th in Missouri — at their annual shareholders meeting:
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Protests Over GMO Food Labeling Come to Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting January 28
Monsanto Shareholders to Vote on GMO Food Labeling for the First Time
Activist Efforts Force Meeting to Be Broadcast LIVE Via Internet
CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI – Every January the shareholders of Monsanto Company come from all over the world to Creve Coeur, Missouri, in order to attend the company’s annual shareholder meeting. For the first time a shareholder has introduced a “GMO Food Labeling” resolution that will be voted on at the meeting. Unlike previous years the annual shareholder meeting will not be conducted completely behind closed doors, instead members of the media and public will be able to listen online. Activists have repeatedly asked for the video of the shareholder meeting to be streamed online but Monsanto has only met activists half way and will stream only the audio of the meeting. Outside of the shareholder meeting safe food activists will gather along Olive Blvd to urge shareholders to support the shareholder resolution.
WHO: Adam Eidinger, Monsanto Activist Shareholder, GMO Free Midwest Coalition, “Are We Eating Fishy Food?” GMO Art Cars, and Concerned Citizens
WHAT: Protest at Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting to Support Vote on “GMO Food Labeling”
WHEN: Noon to 3pm, January 28, 2014
WHERE: Olive Blvd at Monsanto’s East Campus Entrance, Creve Coeur, MO
If the shareholder resolution passes, Monsanto will be required to work with the Food and Drug Administration to label genetically engineered foods nationally. Monsanto’s executives oppose the resolution, but shareholders, many of whom are represented by faceless mutual funds, will have the final say on the chemical giant’s GMO labeling position.
You can read the text of the “GMO Food Labeling” shareholder resolution:
http://occupy-monsanto.com/new-monsanto-shareholder-resolution-supports-gmo-labeling/
Another shareholder resolution to be voted on at the company’s annual meeting is sponsored by activist investor John Harrington and deals with Monsanto’s potential liability to organic farmers. The protests at Monsanto will be the first since last October when more than 500 activists descended on the company’s headquarters for the March Against Monsanto.
For more information: www.occupy-monsanto.com
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Autistic Child found in New York
NBC News has this posted. The remains of the autistic child that disappeared from school have been found.
I was re-reading my blog on school colocation that had mentioned an autistic child had gone missing because the school was so overcrowded, he slipped out without being noticed. I wonder if this is the school…and if so, why aren’t the networks mentioning this? (I had seen the news on CNN before NBC website)
Wanna bet they won’t mention that school overcrowding via colocation with charters is responsible for this death?
Yeah, just like they’re *all over* the Newark school principal firings…er I mean indefinite layoffs (yeah, they were fired…)…haven’t heard a peep about it, but judging by the visitors to my blog on it, this is a hot issue.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Several folks have posts up this morning on Dr. King–
I’ll start with Mercedes Schneider — it is disgusting how George W. Bush used MLK to somehow try to link No Child Left a Mind with civil rights. As we are seeing, most of the public schools being closed are in neighborhoods of the poor and minorities. An excellent point made by Joanne Barkin about how they have appointed themselves as leaders of the reform movement without the rest of us included. Our opinions don’t matter…unless, of course, we agree with them.
A quibble I have with “I Have A Dream…” is the sons of former slave owners and advocating brotherhood...what is glaringly missing are women being part of the whole.
As has been pointed out by others–Dr. King was defending workers who wished to unionize…he would have no part of the destruction of teacher’s unions.
Next, Diane Ravitch has a blog up on MLK. When breaking the law is just…if one follows one’s conscience.
Finally, Democracy Now! has a video up on MLK. When I first clicked on, I heard “I Have a Dream…” and sighed that it was going to be yet another rehash of the I have a Dream speech without reference to his other great speech, Beyond Vietnam.
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2014/1/20
I was so glad that they aired this speech. It was so wonderful hearing Dr. King’s voice again…hard not to get emotional at the love that was flowing from him. He and John F. Kennedy were advocates of Peace working against dark forces. Both were killed for it. But as Dr. King said prophetically, he had been to the mountain top and was not afraid of the consequences of doing what he knew God wanted him to do.
I want to say something about this speech by Amiri Baraka, also on DN!
He speaks about women being raped and wanting to have reparations for it…does he not think that white women have been raped, too? Where is the white woman’s reparation?
What about the Irish slaves whom also worked for no wages? Where are their reparations? What about the Irish women whom were forced to birth babies for lighter-skinned African Americans?
The music we stole? Didn’t all music come from the great classical composers? Isn’t music supposed to be a shared experience? Did we not enjoy each other’s music and share that special connection? It is deflating to hear such anger for something we both enjoyed.
And then he says “give us our lives or be prepared to forfeit your own…”
Dr. King was against violence of any kind. I can’t see him agreeing with advocating violence.
And I don’t understand “giving” someone their life….you can’t “give” someone their life. You can’t give someone self-esteem nor a purpose in life–it has always come from within…from that connection to God (or your Higher Power).
Dr. King knew this…it emanated from him. He was solidly connected and acted accordingly. He mentions the overzealous need for material things…and questioned why someone had more than enough while others had to beg for the things they need.
Advocating violence against whites is just as bad as a KKK leader advocating violence against blacks.
I see white faces amongst the black faces in the civil rights protests. I read a story of a white guy being hosed down and beaten along with the blacks during the civil rights riots. He nearly had an eye gouged out.
Other whites wrote that they had fought alongside blacks and then were told they were not welcome anymore.
White folk were right there alongside black folk, and now it seems that part of history is being rewritten.
I know I’ll probably catch hell for writing this, but it is written with an open heart, and not meant to offend, but to question biases and prejudices….and somehow get back to that love that emanated from Dr. King. Violence, anger, and hatred don’t serve anyone. Anger is only useful if that energy is used in a positive way.
As a side note~ Dr. King spoke about them keeping Vietnam going when they knew it was wrong. I happened upon this the other day–and how Kissinger was behind the scenes prolonging the war…because he loved the power and he, Nixon, et al, wanted to “save face”. They prolonged death of our soldiers, death of Vietnamese so they could keep their reputation intact. Remember, he had stated that power is an aphrodisiac…it’s as if he thought of himself as some sort of “James Bond”….how disgusting.
The Law and Louisiana Teachers
This is why I love the law….if it is working properly (i.e., judges apply it fairly), then the “little guy” wins out even when being bullied by those bigger with $$ bank accounts. Woot.
Eagle 
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