AN EVENING OF HAITI SOLIDARITY ON CAMERON PARK LAKE!

Philadelphia Gets Its Schools Back

After Years of Failed ‘Choice,’ Philadelphia Gets Its After Years of Failed Choice: Philadelphia Gets Its Schools Back

Jeff Bryant

Despite the strong marketing for “school choice” by politicians and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, communities that know firsthand what it’s like to have lots of “options,” like charter schools and vouchers, have found what’s more important is to have a voice in how their schools are governed and operated.

That’s the lesson to draw from Philadelphia, where the school district is about to complete a transition to local control after 16 years of governance by a state-appointed commission that emphasized cutting expenses and staff, closing neighborhood schools, and expanding charters.
https://ourfuture.org/20180327/after-years-of-failed-school-choice-philadelphia-is-getting-back-its-voice?link

Dolores - Must See Film

Live boldly,   KVIE. Channel 6.  March 27,  9 PM, and other public television stations., 

by Duane Campbell

There is an important new film out – Dolores, the story of former DSA Honorary Chair Dolores Huerta and her fight for justice.  She is the woman holding the Huelga sign on the DSA landing page. If you want to be inspired by her struggle for social justice, go see the film. 

Although at times ignored by the Anglo media, and at other times castigated as a red and an “outside agitator,” Huerta tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Cesar Chavez, becoming one of the most important feminists of the twentieth century. If you don’t know her story, you should ask yourself why.  She continues the fight on many fronts to this day, at age 87. With unprecedented access to Dolores, the film reveals important parts of the struggle for dignity and justice for farmworkers, as well as the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change. 

Dolores, produced by PBS and Independent Lens, serves labor history well by accurately describing the often overlooked role of Filipinos who initiated a strike in Delano in 1965, which the nascent NFWA (National Farm Workers Association) joined to create the great Grape Strike that changed labor history in the Southwest.

Students- March for Our Lives

STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS MARCH TO OPPOSE GUN VIOLENCE IN THE MARCH FOR OUR LIVES Photos by David Bacon https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2018/03/students-teachers-and-parents-march-to.html SAN LEANDRO, CA - 24MARCH18 - Students parents and teachers march to oppose gun violence in schools, in the March for Our Lives.  The march started at Washington ELementary School. Full set of images, click here

A Warmongering War Criminal Takes the Helm of the USS Trump » Organizing Upgrade

A Warmongering War Criminal Takes the Helm of the USS Trump ; Organizing Upgrade




"Let's call Bolton what he is, a War Criminal with Terrorist Ties, not just 'Hawkish'" 

Juan Cole writes: 

"John Bolton helped lie our country into an illegal war of aggression that killed several hundred thousand Iraqis, wounded over a million, and displaced 4 million from their homes, helped deliver Baghdad into the hands of Iran, and helped create ISIL, which blew up Paris. In a just world, Bolton would be on trial at The Hague for war crimes. Instead, he has been promoted into a position to do to Iran what he did to Iraq"...

These war-makers can be stopped: even the bulk of the ruling class and military is somewhere between reluctant and opposed to striking Iran or North Korea. But without a lot of noise and more than noise from the bottom up, the alarms and outcry from all quarters won't be enough. Over the last 15 months opposition to militarism and war has not matched the breadth or militancy of other fronts of the anti-Trump resistance. This has to change, and it has to change now. For action ideas both immediate and long term and resource materials, here's a partial list of groups and actions to connect with:

For the full text of this article, go to:

https://organizingupgrade.com/warmongering-war-criminal-takes-helm-uss-trump/

Parkland Students: Our Manifesto | Portside

Parkland Students: Our Manifesto | Portside

Let's Call Bolton What He Is: A War Criminal With Terrorist Ties | Portside

Let's Call Bolton What He Is: A War Criminal With Terrorist Ties | Portside

March for Our Lives

Sac State Students - life and debt

Organizing for April 4: Sacramento students hold teach-in with campus president Students at CSU Sacramento called on campus President Robert Nelson this week to show his support for students who will rally for the CSU at the State Capitol on April 4. At a teach-in against a possible tuition hike organized by Students for Quality Education and attended by Nelson, students told personal stories about long work hours, mounting debt, and the challenges to their college dreams. The crowd gasped when a student named Claudia revealed she works four different jobs to pay her bills during the regular school year and to save to pay tuition during summer and intersession, for which there is no financial aid. “The way to do this,” Claudia said, “is your parents are rich and they pay for your school.” Yet she hangs in, because, she said, “Education is the only thing that is going to make you prosper.” When a student asked the crowd how many work more than six hours a day, at least half the room raised their hands. He himself does, often a night shift, and he said to complete his studies and class assignments, he sometimes sleeps only two or three hours a night.

The Case for Nancy Pelosi

MARCH 20, 2018

Meyerson on TAP

They’re gunning for Nancy Pelosi again. Democratic candidates in swing districts—even a few in solidly blue districts—are suggesting they might prefer a new and different leader in the House.

Since the early 2000s, Republicans have been running against Pelosi, in classic Republican style, by alleging she’s the personification of coastal elitism. The charges have been leveled so many times, much as similar charges were leveled at Hillary Clinton, that millions of Americans believe them, though they’d be hard-pressed to say what, exactly, Pelosi has done that can substantiate them.

Here, then, is a charge that sticks, that’s empirically verifiable: Nancy Pelosi has been the most effective legislative leader of either house of Congress since—well, way back. It was Pelosi who was responsible for the passage of the Affordable Care Act, when Rahm Emanuel and others were telling President Obama to give it up. It’s been Pelosi who has kept the House Democrats united in opposition to such Republican legislation as the tax bill. It was Pelosi who mobilized the House Democrats’ opposition to the Iraq War, which enabled them to capture the House in the 2006 election.

Indeed, Pelosi came to power in the House Democratic delegation not just because she had the backing of the liberals, but also because such old bulls as John Murtha and David Obey knew she was “operational”—able to craft and pass bills that needed to pass and block bills that shouldn’t. Her record compares favorably to such other legislative legends as Sam Rayburn and, as Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson.

Students Speak Out on Rising Tuition- Sac State

On Tuesday March 13th at 10:30 am, Students for Quality Education is organizing a student speak out in the Library Quad. The purpose of this rally is to give students a platform to share their thoughts about the proposed 2018/2019 tuition hike and the underfunding of higher education. 

President Nelsen and his cabinet will be in attendance along with representatives from ASI. This is an excellent opportunity for faculty,  students, and community to come together on campus to speak out against the tuition increase and the underfunding of higher ed. 

Kevin de Leon on Jeff Sessions

Oppose Student Fee Hikes

Putting Trump On Notice About DACA: Fix What You Broke.

There are echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in today's immigration debate

There are echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in today's immigration debate