CORE
Big day in Chicago with a major union vote taking place. Below is the slate for the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE). Be sure to check them out.
If we pull together, we can win!
CORE’s plan for CTU1. Get everyone on board with a common strategy.
- Get the 5 caucuses and other leaders together in the same place and come up with a series of steps on which we can agree.
- Mobilize our Union into fighting shape for contract negotiations in 2012.
2. Mobilize the union against the Budget Cuts.
- Inform the membership on the specifics of CPS/Chicago waste (TIF budget, the
Tea Party Celebrates Two Big Victories This Week
Some people seem shocked at Mr. Paul's public pronouncements in support of legalized discriminatory behavior, but these backward-embracing views are exactly the values that won him the support of the conservative base and corporations like Fox News that continually feed the hatred and misinformation of the base. It is no surprise that Paul would mention Kentucky one time in his acceptance speech and the Tea Party nine times. He owes his victory to the powers of unrestrained greed and racist manipulation, rather than to the good people of Kentucky.
This week had another Tea Party victory of sorts, when the Wake County School Board took the official vote to end the largest and most successful diversity school program in America. It was, after all, the Tea Party's money and organization (and a pitiful voter turnout) that allowed the social antiquarians to establish the Gang of Five Republicans that brought down socioeconomic integration in Wake County Schools.
The spokesman of the new majority is the dangerous fool, John Tedesco, who listens to enough talk radio to