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Thursday, March 3, 2011

solidaridad: Thank you Matt Damon! Let's replace RTTT with the Zinn Education Project #WIunion

solidaridad: Thank you Matt Damon! Let's replace RTTT with the Zinn Education Project

Thank you Matt Damon! Let's replace RTTT with the Zinn Education Project

"...[T]he person who wants bold changes in the way our society is going is not going to find them represented by either the Democratic or Republican candidates, and that's still true with Obama and McCain." — Howard Zinn

The late Dr. Howard Zinn and Matt Damon speaking truth to power
Hollywood luminary and social justice minded Matt Damon is quoted in theHuffington Post saying some very profound things about this administration's corporate neoliberal education "reform" policies:

"He's [Obama] doubled down on a lot of things, going back to education... the idea that we're testing kids and we're tying teachers salaries to how kids are performing on tests, that kind of mechanized thinking has nothing to do with higher order. We're training them, not teaching them." — Matt Damon

Many HuffPost liberals and a handful of like minded teabaggers were