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Monday, October 8, 2012

Daily Kos: Bus tour with teacherken: Education in Pennsylvania

Daily Kos: Bus tour with teacherken: Education in Pennsylvania:


Bus tour with teacherken: Education in Pennsylvania

This is crossposted from Education Votes, a website of the NEA, for whom I am serving as an embedded blogger on the Stop the Greed Agenda Bus Tour.  I ask that you also follow that link and Like the post
I will be discussing how the Greed Agenda and related things are affecting public education in Pennsylvania, but allow me to share some photos of our Sunday.
There was nothing scheduled for today, but somehow we managed to find two ways of getting our message, Stop the Greed Agenda, out.
First we made a stop at a radio station in Youngstown,
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where Mariah was interviewed:
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Please continue below the squiggle for more photos and my thoughts on education in Pennsylvania


Daily Kos: Bus tour with teacherken: Pittsburgh and African-American heritage

Daily Kos: Bus tour with teacherken: Pittsburgh and African-American heritage:


Bus tour with teacherken: Pittsburgh and African-American heritage

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Ken Bernstein is a recently retired National Board Certified Social Studies Teacher who was a 2010 Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher. Nationally known for hisblogging as teacherken at Daily Kos and elsewhere, he served until his retirement as the lead building representative (NEA) at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt MD.
Saturday Oct. 6 was a day to spread the message of the “Stop the Greed Agenda Bus Tour” as part of the celebration of African-American Heritage in Pittsburgh. We began the day by participating in the 25th Annual African-American Heritage Parade.
Here you see Patriot Majority’s Mariah Hatta getting the driver of the care for WAMO, the 



BUS TOUR WITH TEACHERKEN: PITTSBURGH AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE
 

I am still on the Bus for the "Stop the Greed Agenda Bus tour."  Yesterday we were in Pittsburgh.  I am crossposting this from Education Votes.  I ask that you consider going over there and "liking" the post as well as any response you might make here.
Saturday Oct. 6 was a day to spread the message of the “Stop the Greed Agenda Bus Tour” as part of the celebration of African-American Heritage in Pittsburgh.  We began the day by participating in the 25th Annual African-American Heritage Parade.
Here you see Patriot Majority’s Mariah Hatta getting the driver of the care for WAMO, the local hip-hop station, to sign up for Patriot Majority:
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and here are Mariah and Paul Freeman carrying our banner in front of our bus during the parade:
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Daily Kos: Bus tour with teacherken: Going after the “Greed Agenda”

Daily Kos: Bus tour with teacherken: Going after the “Greed Agenda”:


BUS TOUR WITH TEACHERKEN: GOING AFTER THE “GREED AGENDA”

I am currently in Columbus OH, where I am participating in Patriot Majority's Bus trip to Stop the Greed Agenda against the Koch Brothers.  I was hired to do this by the National Education Association, and will be posting at least once a day at their Education Votes website.  I will crosspost PART of those posts here, as I am doing this morning, and provide a link back to their site, since they are paying for my blogging.  I hope you will follow the link and also explore what else is on their website.  My first post was written last night as an introduction to what I am doing.
By now most Americans paying attention have begun to realize the influence some billionaires are wielding upon the politics and governance of our nation.  Perhaps most infamous among those billionaires are the Brothers Koch, Charles and David, who by themselves have funded much of the infrastructure of the political right in this nation, including these organizations very visible and unfortunately influential in recent years:  Americans for Prosperity (AFP), American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and FreedomWorks.
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