Don’t mourn, organize! Detroit looks to unseat the pro-business presidency of Keith Johnson, member of the billionaires boyz club and attache to Robert Bobb, Chief Financial Officer and paid supplicant of Eli Broad
Keith Johnson, current president of Detroit Federation of Teachers has sold his soul to the privatization establishment. Detroit teachers fight for a straight slate to unseat him!
Picture of Keith Johnson, the rancid Randi Weingarten and Robert Bobb breaking bread and breaking teachers, students and the Detroit working class!
Many of us have been writing and struggling against the sordid Race to the Top, Obama and Duncan’s signature plan to privatize education and rob children fo critical thinking skills while moving heft taxpayer subsidies into the coffers of CEO’S ON Wall Street looking to make a buck. Now Detroit has an historic chance to support Steve Conn and Christal Bonner for union representatives in a DEFEND Public Education/ Save Our Students slate.
Even if you do not live in Detroit, if you are a progressive concerened about wrestling public education from the slimy fingers of privatization then you will want to support what is going on in Detroit on behalf of students, parents and community. For if Conn and Bonner are successful in their efforts to unset the appeaser and capitaulator, Keith Johnson, the current head of the