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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?:

Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?

Teachers want to know

Teachers in the San Francisco Bay area picketed Thursday outside an education conference that features News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as a keynote speaker, saying they believe he and other business leaders are out to profit from the so-called "reforms" discussed at the summit.

More than 100 demonstrators marched outside the Palace Hotel, which was hosting Jeb Bush's National Summit on Education Reform. The protesters, joined by activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement, chanted, banged drums and held signs with pictures of Murdoch and slogans such as "Hey Murdoch! Our Schools are Not For Profit."
"Corporations own all the media in the world. Why should they not own all the