Friday, February 25, 2011

Right on Target-Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

Right on Target

Feb 25th, 2011

Josh is eight years old in third grade in his public school here in fabulous New York City. He thinks I look like a desperate housewife.

I don’t watch the show, so I have no idea if that’s a compliment or not. But he came to the New York Public Library’s kick-off event for NEA’s Read Across Americasponsored by our faithful partner, Target, and he was told he was going to see movie stars.

He met Mark Ruffalo (an actor up for an Academy Award and an ardent activist for clean water who passionately read The Lorax to Josh and about 200 of his

AlterNet: The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement | www.kochwatch.org #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

AlterNet: The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement | www.kochwatch.org

Huffington Post: Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Stripping Union Rights From Public Workers *February 25 2011-* The Wisconsin Assembly early Friday passed a bill that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights – the first significant action on the new Republican governor's plan. The vote put an end to three ...

AlterNet: The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement *The Koch family, America's biggest financial backers of the Tea Party, would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the godless empire of the USSR. * *April 17, 2010-* The Tea Party movement's dirty little secret is that its chief ...

The Young Turks: Gov. Walker Pranked - TYT Breaks It Down! WATCH ON YOUTUBE:

PR Watch: Koch Brothers "Prank" No Laughing Matter *February 24, 2011-* Embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker came under fire today after news broke about statements he made in a 20-minute phone call from a Buffalo-area alternative news reporter, Ian Murphy of the Daily Beast, posing as David ...

Think Progress: Main Street Movement Erupts as Thousands Across Country Protest War on the Middle Class *February 24, 2011-* Last week, 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats inspired the nation when they decided to flee the state rather than allow quorum for a vote on a bill that would have decimated the state’s public employee unions and dealt a crippling ...

NYC Educator: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

by NYC Educator

Our country's awash in nonsense. Here is America, grabbing torches and pitchforks, united against evil teachers. How dare they spend decades working for less than similarly educated individuals? How dare they actually use the job security they got in exchange for giving up all that money to keep their jobs? Who the hell do these teachers think they are?

In Providence, they're simply firing all their teachers, no ifs, ands, or buts. We all know that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the guy who answers to the billionaire Koch Brothers (and demonstrates its literal truth in a prank call) is off maintaining he needs to close a budget, and therefore needs to kill collective bargaining for teachers and nurses. The fact that they're ready t

Video Shouting Shame on Wisconsin !!! Assembly floor before “union-busting” budget bill vote 2.25.11 « Continuing Change #wiunion

Video Shouting Shame on Wisconsin !!! Assembly floor before “union-busting” budget bill vote 2.25.11 « Continuing Change

Video Shouting Shame on Wisconsin !!! Assembly floor before “union-busting” budget bill vote 2.25.11

by gatorbonbc

Video Shouting Shame on Wisconsin !!! Assembly floor before “union-busting” budget bill vote 2.25.11

“This is video from the gallery of the WI Assembly past 1 AM in the morning on 2/25/2011. The Democrats have just been told by the speaker pro tempore there will be no more debate before the vote, even though there were more than a dozen Democrats in the queue to speak. They shout “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
The public citizens in the gallery were shortly told to leave by police. None of the public

Thursday, February 24, 2011

On Writing This Particular Book | The Jose Vilson

On Writing This Particular Book

by Jose

What About Our Dreams? (Had to use this again)

I‘ve learned a few things about writing this particular book. It’s definitely not like other books, but it is my book. I’m writing it because it’s about time I culminate the 1000+ blogs I’ve written in between my earlier private site, a

Rally in Support of Wisconsin Public Workers | Reflections on Teaching #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Rally in Support of Wisconsin Public Workers | Reflections on Teaching

Rally in Support of Wisconsin Public Workers

by alicemercer

You can read about my experience at Tuesday’s rally at the California State Capitol here. It includes a slideshow with pictures including some from Larry Ferlazzo (sans the weird slideshow he used).

This Week In Education: Jobs: The Private Sector's (Misplaced) Anger At Public Employees #wiunion

This Week In Education: Jobs: The Private Sector's (Misplaced) Anger At Public Employees

Jobs: The Private Sector's (Misplaced) Anger At Public Employees

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein: "[There's] a perception that people in the "real" economy have suffered greatly, while public workers have been cosseted by their union contracts, their lobbying might and stimulus dollars. And there's some truth to

Es el Momento - Educacion, Becas, Universidades, Aprendizaje

Univision Launches 2nd Phase of Education Initiative: Es El Momento - Hispanically Speaking News

Univision Launches 2nd Phase of Education Initiative: Es El Momento

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February 24, 2011 | by HS News Staff

Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, today unveiled the second phase of its highly successful, multi-platform education initiative, Es El Momento (The Moment is Now). The initiative’s second phase highlights the importance of children having role models in their lives, encouraging parents to teach by example and instill in their children the importance of education, as the key to their success.

“Es El Momento’s second phase illustrates the inspirational journey of Hispanic individuals who were given the support and motivation needed to follow their dreams and aspirations. The campaign further underscores the importance of engagement and parents’ and role models’ presence in their children’s lives to ensure academic achievement,” said Joe Uva, president and CEO of Univision Communications Inc. “The continued success of Latino youth is critical to our country’s economic success and at Univision we are committed to playing our part to ensure we provide Hispanic families with access to the tools and resources needed to succeed.”

“We believe that education is the key to opportunity,” said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Our partnership with Univision is critical to spurring the conversation about the need for all students to graduate high school prepared for college and completion of a degree beyond high school. As Univision continues to be one of the most trusted sources of information for its viewers, we have confidence the second year of the

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: "American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires" #wisolidarity #wiunion

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: "American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires"

"American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires"

FROM YOUTUBE: "American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires" was filmed on location in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of hard working Americans came together in unity to fight back against a Governor bought and paid for by Billionaires to break up Unions and deny workers collective bargaining and a living wage. "American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires" was produced by Cynik Lethal and directed by Paradise Gray.

LYRICS

Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

ABOUT THE PERIMETER PRIMATE

The Perimeter Primate, Sharon Higgins, is a wife and mother living in Oakland, California. She has been a committed and active public school parent since 1993. Once upon a time she worked as a critical care nurse and was also a ceramic artist. Later on, she became obsessed with certain school and social issues.

From 2001 to 2008, the Primate spent seven eye-opening years working as a parent coordinator at her local public middle school, yet another labeled as "failing." Now she spends some of her time reading, researching, thinking, and writing about urban education and social issues, then posts the product of those efforts on this blog.

In addition to serving as a Neighborhood Watch block captain, the Primate regularly volunteers at her daughters’ school. With so many parents working – or not particularly interested in helping out at their children's schools – she intimately understands the degree to which Oakland's schools, and ALL the people in them, need more adult help and attention.

Although she is undoubtedly viewed as a dinosaur by some, the Primate is proud to be one of those quintessential school "moms." From picking up garbage and scrubbing off graffiti, to organizing school tours and helping the school’s webmaster, she's not fussy about what she'll do. If something for the school needs to get done, the Primate might just jump in and do it. This on-site, frequent contact with a campus and school community allows her to keep her fingers pressed on the pulse of life at one of Oakland's struggling public schools.

She is very grateful for her poetry-loving husband who spends his days providing legal representation to people with multiple disadvantages who have been caught in the web of our criminal justice system.