Roots of the UFT: Max Shachtman, Al Shanker Mentor
Vera Pavone and I wrote a review of the Shanker bio in New Politics: Albert Shanker: Ruthless Neo-Con | New Politics which delved into the roots of Shankerism which still dominates the UFT today.It is important for people to know how the UFT/Unity party was born out of Trotskyism and the the firmament of left-wing politics, then morphing into socialism and then into vicious anti-left right wing so
Where Are the People of Color in the Movement?
....there aren't enough people of color in this picture... Jersey Jazzman raised this issue on his blog after a meeting of Jersey bloggers.I left this comment:JJ - you make a point that I've been hearing here in NYC in all the various white dominated activist groups. It always seems to come down to something we're doing wrong - we're not sensitive enough. People of color feel uncomfortable in a ro
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Teachers and Police
After the roiling of the waters between the PBA and the UFT I've started writing a series of articles for my column in The Wave on teachers and police. Here are the first two.School Scope: Teachers and CopsBy Norm ScottPublished in The Wave, Sept. 5, 2014 Welcome to the new school year to teacher and parent School Scope readers. For those involved in schools, the new year really begins in Septembe
9-22-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: I Didn't March Anymore on Climate But Did Pick up and Plant a Fig TreeI really was going to go to the climate march even though I wrote- Another March and Why I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - U...I did include the caveat that I would march if I could get a beer at a bar afterwards. And lo and behold I received an offer from 2 lovely young ladies that if I marched they would buy me a bee