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Monday, April 1, 2013

Shachtmanism: Unity Caucus, Know Your Roots

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Al Shanker's long-time secretary was Yetta Shachtman, Max Shachtman's wife. Almost all the early leaders of the UFT were members o...
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How the UFT Misleads and Obfuscates on Danieleson "Pilot"

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Our union was formed in order to   protect  teachers from administrative malpractice… not to  facilitate  it. Yet , with the “pilot” unchal...
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Sunday, March 31, 2013

MORE New Election Leaflet: Ballots Go Out April 3

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Download and print for your schools or send an email to your staff with the link. If you want hard copies delivered to you for distribution ...

Corrected: Whither New Action: Mulgrew Tops New Action Slate as 10 NA Candidates Run on Unity Slate, Including 2 co-chairs Shulman and Halabi

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Historical correction sent in by Ira Goldfine: In 1977 and 1979 we ran together with TAC and we called ourselves UNITED FIGHTBACK - in 198...
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Victory for Seattle MAP boycott teachers

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No punishment for teachers in Seattle test boycott Posted by Linda Shaw Superintendent Jose Banda announced tod...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

MORE Elementary School Exec Bd Slate

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 Marking the MORE slate with a big X will count as a vote for each of this great slate of elementary exec board candidates. Now in the biz...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Netfix Boss Pushes Anti-Teacher Union Theme in House of Cards

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I've been watching House of Cards and was intending to write something about the anti-teacher union POV so thanks to Randy Shaw at Por...

ICE Meeting Today: Better Not Shout, Better Not Pout, George Schmidt is Coming To Town

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At ICE's scheduled meeting today we will have the bonus of special guest Substance ,  telling us all about what's happening in Chica...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

UPDATED: Civil Disobedience and Arrests at Chicago Closing Schools Protest

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I am updating as more info comes in. Fred Klonsky has great pics. Here is one. Jaisal Noor tweeted links to his videos: @jaisalnoor: ...

UPDATE - Video: IS 49 SI Asst Principal Illegally Stops and Frisks Student

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See new info below. This info was sent to OSI and they did nothing. When a video about a teacher is out there they pull the teacher and try ...
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NY Times Attack on Quinn Part of Plan to Make Lhota Mayor by Making Thompson Dem Choice?

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So I am a suspicious sort. I agree that Quinn is awful and believe everything in the NY Times article and would never vote for her. But some...
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Bushwick to Broadway: Help My Former Student Ernie Silva Get His Show to Broadway

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Ernie it trying to get his show to Broadway and you can help. http://www.usaprojects.org/project/bushwick_to_broadway I've written a...

MORE Featured in National Publication Article on PEP

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The Movement of Rank-and-File Educators, or MORE, is attempting to take over the teachers union in elections slated for April. They want ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

I Don't Believe John King When He Claims Tests Won't Be Used to Close Schools

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I don't believe any of them. Just lies to divide and reduce opposition. He is an agent of the new gen robber barons. That was my resp...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

John Yanno on The Work Julie Does and the UFT Doesn't

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Mulgrew may have been at the DA but he wasn't in the trenches fighting for rank and file teachers and public education. Here, John Yanno...