¿¿ What Are YOU Resisting ??
I’m resisting the attack on our public school system. And we need to defend it now, right now, or else it will be gone.
¿¿When Are You Gonna Do It ??
Now. THE MOMENT IS NOW, THIS SATURDAY. Really:
Now is the time for you to stand up, march and be counted. Now is when the big push is going down to privatize that Jewel in the Crown of Public Education: LAUSD.
I know, you and everyone else loves to hate on LAUSD. It’s the second-largest school district in the country, the largest one run by a publicly-elected school board. But it’s not a hell-hole of incompetence. Really. My children graduated from there and they’re not incompetents and neither are their teachers. Really. The school sites are not a viper’s den of scary gangsters. Really. (It’s actually downtown, in the District’s central headquarters (“Beaudry”) that the true financial criminals are stored. Really.)
Because “Education Reform” is just one instance of Privatizing All Our Public Works, Everything. And that’s what’s on the table, right now, coming to a head in this fair city of ours.
I know what I’m resisting: the flow of money, ever-increasing in the going, into just a tiny few number of private pocketsies. We the millions are just standing around while it makes this giant sucking sound from out of our wallets and into their precious few accounts: Eli Broad’s, Alice Walton’s, Reed Hasting’s, Austin Beutner’s, etc…. You know, the same old.
Right Now, all the stars carefully positioned over such along time are coming into alignment – for them. They’ve got a school board stacked with Privatizers, and it’s under threat from long-time progressive activist Jackie Goldberg running for the seat vacated by CCSA’s last anointed lackey, the felon from LAUSD BD5 (Vote Jackie, LAUSD5 on March 5, 2019!).
They’ve got a superintendent from their stable of Ideological Privateers, the venture capitalist Austin Beutner of Blackstone Group/Russian-privatization/Oaktree Capital/Evercore/Villaraigosa-Riordan-Broad/LAPD fame. He’s all poised and scripted-up for disparaging his own team of personnel, school teachers and their support staff.
And they’ve got one of America’s largest remaining unions with its back up against that proverbial negotiating wall, penned in on oneside by public opinion, CONTINUE READING: ¿¿ What Are YOU Resisting ?? – redqueeninla
