Hillary's Family Ties to School Privatizers, and Diane Ravitch's Review of Hoosier School Heist
By Doug Martin at Hoosier School Heist Blog, and Diane Ravitch
Last week the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy, without consulting more than a token slice of the union's membership. It's hard not to know that AFT leaders have turned their backs on teachers and thrown in with the privatizing politicians and consultants. Hillary too has her own family ties to school privatizers.
Hillary's Family Ties to School Privatizers, and Diane Ravitch's Review of Hoosier School Heist
By Doug Martin at Hoosier School Heist Blog, and Diane Ravitch
1. Hillary and the Privatizers
A while back, Hillary Clinton, speaking the talk of the working class as all Wall Street DC Democrats do, lashed out at top hedge fund managers for “making more than all of America’s kindergarten teachers combined.” Hillary’s statement was mere deception. Not because it wasn't the truth; but because Hillary happens to love hedge fund managers and banksters.
Hedge fund managers seek to privatize education and steal pensions from teachers, as I detail in my bookHoosier School Heist, and wipe out what is left of the middle class. And Hillary is all about that.
In fact, Hillary’s son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, is a hedge fund manager. His fund, Eaglevale Partners, recently lost a little money in Greece, a country which cannot pay back loans to billionaires, banksters, and hedge fund managers who have set in place legalized stealing in the form of disaster capitalism.
One of the chief structures behind disaster capitalism across the planet is the World Bank, which Hillary once wanted to lead.
As a New York Times piece noted, Eaglevale Partners is a “fund that makes trades based on global economic and political events.” Several investors in Hillary’s son-in-law’s hedge fund, as the New York Times alsopointed out, have ties to the Clintons and have even funded Hillary’s campaign chest. Goldman Sachs is one of these. As of November 2010, Goldman Sachs, through its Charter School Loan Facility, was funding 130 charter schools across the US. Hillary’s son-in-law was once a Goldman Sachs employee.
As for Bill? Bill Clinton has been behind the for-profit charter school movement since its inception, as many now know. Last year, he even spoke at a Nashville charter school operated by one of Chelsea’s old college sweethearts.
Recently an outfit spreading charter schools in India was honored at the Clinton Global Initiative, and MarcMezvinsky, Clinton’s hedge fund son-in-law, was there for the photo-op.
Disaster capitalism is the leading force behind the assault on public schools. And be sure that Hillary, hedge fund managers, Goldman Sachs, and Randi Weingarten will help further its agenda.
DC is a lost cause. And so are the teachers unions. Sleep good at night. Focus your energy on the state level and make plans for a real revolution, before global warming kills us all off.
Doug Martin is the author of Hoosier School Heist : How Corporations and Theocrats Stole Democracy From Public Education, a book being read in over 130 cities and towns and 78 Indiana counties, 23 states, and the District of Columbia. A regular guest on national and Indiana radio talk shows such as Justin Oakley’s Just Let Me Teach and Amos Brown’s Afternoons with Amos, Dr. Martin’s research has been or will soon be featured in the Washington Post Answer Sheet , ABC’sNightline, and the Associated Press.
2. Diane Ravitch, review of Hoosier School Heist
Every so often, I run into someone who says that he or she cannot take seriously the claim that there is such a thing as a “privatization” movement. They think that charter schools are public schools (I do not) and they scoff at any concern about for-profit schools. They say things like, “There have always been for-profit businesses in education, selling tests, textbooks, supplies, etc., why does it matter if some corporations run Hillary's Family Ties to School Privatizers, and Diane Ravitch's Review of Hoosier School Heist | Black Agenda Report: