Ed Notes Online: Today: Julie Cavanagh (MORE) and Xian Barrett (CORE) Lessons of the Chicago Teachers’ Strike

Ed Notes Online: Today: Julie Cavanagh (MORE) and Xian Barrett (CORE) Lessons of the Chicago Teachers’ Strike:

Today: Julie Cavanagh (MORE) and Xian Barrett (CORE) Lessons of the Chicago Teachers’ Strike

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Don't miss the chance to see Julie and Xian today. I met both of them in the summer of 2009, Xian in Los Angeles at a 5-city gathering of union activists where Xian and 5 others came from Chicago's CORE and Julie here at the first meeting of GEM and CAPE. I don't have to tell ed notes readers about Julie. Even if you can't make it, check out these 2 videos I shot of Xian to get an idea of how CORE began in mid-2008 as an 8 person group reading Naomi Klein to a take-over of the Chicago TU two years later.

One aspect of today's event is that people who organize this are thinking about broader lessons for us here as you can see in the leaflet MORE handed out at the DA (see below). I think there should also be emphasis on the 

MORE's Lisa North and CTS Janine Sopp on Panel - GEM Real Reform Film Showing in Staten Island Oct. 23

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Hi, hi ho, off to Staten Island we go. Tuesday evening, our film with a great panel.

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"Multiple Voices in Education Reform"

Featuring the film "The Inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman"

followed by a panel discussion with:

Ocyynthia Williams, parent activist, Coalition for Educational Justice

Janine Sopp, parent activist, Change the Stakes, Grassroots Education Movement

Aurelia Curtis, Principal, Curtis High School

Jean McTavish, Principal, Edward R. Reynolds West Side High School

Lisa North, Teacher, Brooklyn

Ken Gold, CSI Education Department

Moderator: Arnold Dodge, Long Island University, Brookville Campus

October 23, 6:30-9:00

1P Williamson Theater

College of Staten Island

2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10314

Contact: Ruth Powers Silverberg 718-982-3726

ALL ARE WELCOME