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Education in in a "State of Emergency"
Education, Education, Education. This week – schools are public issue number one as teachers – students – and parents are holding demonstrations from New York to California to protest cuts to education budgets. In what they are calling a weeklong “state of emergency” – the California Teachers Association is holding a sit-in at their state capital in response to Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed $7 billion cut to education.
In the last three years – the state has seen its education budget whittled down by $20 billion and more than 30,000 teachers laid off – now the teachers union is saying, “enough is enough.” Also – inspired by activist teachers in Wisconsin – New York City teachers are holding a march this week in opposition to Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed cuts to education that will lay off thousands of educators. Tens of thousands of people are expected to join in the march from City Hall to Wall Street to demand that banksters – and not teachers – pay up for what they did to the economy.
Has our morality decayed so much that we rejoice banksters on Wall Street making hundreds of million in bonuses – yet yell and scream about teachers earning a meager 50K?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Immigration: the corporatists vs. racists...and labor gets left behind (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Immigration: the corporatists vs. racists...and labor gets left behind.
America's teacher fight back Wisconsin style with: - Allison Kilkenny, Independent Journalist - The Nation - David A. Sanchez, President - California Teacher's Association (CTA).
Screwed: Internet...pay for for play or fee free? with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
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High food prices...government failure or over-population with Ron Bailey, Science Correspondent - Reason Magazine.
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The Daily Stack
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Hour One: Have 30 years of Reaganomics impoverished us so much that we can't afford benefits for working moms? with Sabrina Schaeffer, Senior Fellow - Independent Women's Forum.
Hour Two: Rule of law...The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden with Marjorie Cohn, Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past President of the National Lawyers Guild.
Hour Three: What are the "63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read? ...former Minnesota Governor and Navy Seal Jesse Ventura joins Thom.
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Movie: " I AM", Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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Has our morality decayed so much that we rejoice banksters making millions in bonuses & yell about teachers earning a mere 50K?
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