WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Tells AFT delegates, "We will go forward together."
Rev. Wm. Barber II, president of NC's NAACP chapter
“If they’ve got to fight us this hard, we’ve got to be some bad somebodies,” Barber said eliciting a standing ovation from the crowd. -- Teacher union convention opens with fiery speech
Salim Muwakkil
Chronic poverty is criminogenic; the links are thick and reinforced by rigorous scholarship. In Chicago's communities, rates of violent crime correlate to poverty rates in ways that make that point irrefutable. There is little dispute that if violence prevention is the goal, reducing poverty is the most effective tactic. -- Chicago Tribune
Alex Caputo-Pearl, new UTLA pres.
The new L.A. union leader framed his remarks around defining “social movement unionism,” which he said is “explicit about fighting for racial and social justice. It’s Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: