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You Are Invited: A Webinar about the Koch Machine | Diane Ravitch's blog

You Are Invited: A Webinar about the Koch Machine | Diane Ravitch's blog

You Are Invited: A Webinar about the Koch Machine


A valuable website called “Unkoch My Campus” is offering a webinar where you can learn how to identify the tentacles of the Kochtopus.
Charles Koch and his late brother David
have subsidized anti-government, anti-public school policies and think tanks for decades. They underwrote the voucher campaign in Arizona and other states. They work closely with the DeVos family foundations to promote their views. The Koch’s have established centers to advocate libertarian ideas on more than 300 campuses. In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, we see how necessary it is to have a functioning federal government. At times of crisis, we understand that we need an effective public sector. The Koch movement has worked hard to reduce the ability of governments to protect their citizens.
This is a message from “Unkoch My Campus.”
We’re building a movement against the most intricate infrastructure of political influence in the country.
The bad news? This means having to track and expose hundreds of Koch-funded university programs, think- CONTINUE READING: You Are Invited: A Webinar about the Koch Machine | Diane Ravitch's blog