tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post1080162052259449613..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: The Unity Caucus Propaganda Machine: Are Most NYC Teachers Clueless? How Dim is the Future? Part 1ed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-12275490873048272492016-01-27T23:40:46.372-05:002016-01-27T23:40:46.372-05:00Chaz
Why don't you just go ahead and support t...Chaz<br />Why don't you just go ahead and support the other caucus if you are so bothered by MORE's positions on issues that relate to children and their lives. A caucus that doesn't give a shit about kids is right up your alley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-79799596973894046232016-01-27T23:30:58.793-05:002016-01-27T23:30:58.793-05:00Funny you talk about getting rid of the social jus...Funny you talk about getting rid of the social justice plank when it is only the social justice caucuses that have been getting somewhere like Chicago, LA, Milwaukee. Fact is people who line up with your ideas will never become active and do the kind of work an organization needs to function while SJ people are ready to do the hard organizing work. Show me one teacher union in this nation that has challenged an entrenched leadership without a strong SJ component. History has and will show that your narrow view of unionism will not prevail. You don't build an opposition by chasing after your mythical mainstream voter, which in reality in the UFT is a non-voter because your mainstreamer doesn't really give much of a crap.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-29615624448356832232016-01-27T22:20:26.669-05:002016-01-27T22:20:26.669-05:00Project is still on. I dropped a batch at Josh'...Project is still on. I dropped a batch at Josh's school. Next newsletter is due after the election stuff.<br />ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-60695663896756841692016-01-26T10:52:18.324-05:002016-01-26T10:52:18.324-05:00What happened to that new newsletter project that ...What happened to that new newsletter project that was started not long ago?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18001742721953247639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-24023205917473948202016-01-26T10:00:54.032-05:002016-01-26T10:00:54.032-05:00I view you as MORE because it takes people who are...I view you as MORE because it takes people who are aware to work with their colleagues. MORE is still limited in man and woman power but has been building a list in an organized way - I hope -- using a main contact at each school who will do the organizing at their school and pass on the info. The hope is to build a district level structure. A few districts are moving but that is due to a concentration of forces. In scattered district like yours we could use someone like you to help get started - like tapping chapter leaders or other rank and file in your school and maybe nearby schools. You must see the Unity machine regularly and how the District Rep monitors any voices of dissent. There have got to be people who are not happy with the union. WE have people who are not formally connected to MORE who are sharing info and getting their colleagues to join MORE. One school from the Bronx has 40% of its members signed up. Another has 30 members who paid $10 to join. It is slow but if we had more people doing that the Unity machine would be challenged at its root level of control. Once that happens - if it ever does -- the election results would begin to reflect that.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-67279263179315492762016-01-25T18:32:45.348-05:002016-01-25T18:32:45.348-05:00Norm:
MORE needs to get out of their ideological ...Norm:<br /><br />MORE needs to get out of their ideological box as well by jettisoning the "social justice" plank if they want to get the mainstream voter. <br /><br />While MORE has some very good ideas the "social justice" plank is like an albatross on the organization and its time to take off the blinders and realize its a losing hand that hurts MORE.Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-67451888295179794792016-01-25T13:22:58.341-05:002016-01-25T13:22:58.341-05:00Teachers ARE waking up. They don't know all th...Teachers ARE waking up. They don't know all the politics but they sure as hell feel the unfairness of the evaluation system<br /><br />What I believe will start happening is they will start to pull dues<br />And more and more will do it as time passesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-55550371451123542092016-01-25T13:12:43.114-05:002016-01-25T13:12:43.114-05:00MORE could begin to collect e-mails of rank and fi...MORE could begin to collect e-mails of rank and file. Just start building it and start sending out something like Gene Mann's Organizer. I truly believe people will respond and circulation will grow and hopefully Unity's strangle hold on information will begin to crack.Unitymustgo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14117390123313141745noreply@blogger.com