Putting teachers back in charge…
instead of starving our schools of critical funding and pushing market-based, test-driven policies that ultimately fail our kids, we should be relying on evidence and input from those closest to the classroom to find solutions that work to reclaim the promise of public education. Those closest to the classrooms are teachers. One of the most effective measures we can take is to put teachers back in charge.
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Kathy Kelly
There are numerous, obvious solutions to problems in Afghanistan which NATO countries could actually consider, or even attempt, if the alliance was actually there to help improve the quality of life for Afghan people.
Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) Solidarity Panel, Presentation & Mural Painting at PSU on Friday!
At PSU: Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236!
Please join us Friday, November 7th at 4 pm for a panel discussion, and solidarity mural painting event to support this vital community resource and to support Indigenous resistance movements and to help raise funds to rebuild the Zapatista Escuelita.
Is Water a Human Right? Or should we let them eat cake.
We can tell the cons, profiteers and war mongers there time has come. They’re out of time, out of their minds and out of luck. W’ere not gonna surrender.
Friend of our enemy is no friend.
“…it was the CIA that began backing fundamentalist Islamists in Iraq, Syria, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Bosnia, and other “secular” states, including more recently, Libya and Egypt. I
Manifest Destiny: Attack, Invade, Occupy and Exploit
“The abolitionists, speaking through William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator, denounced the war as one “of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine-marked by ruffianism, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity …”
Only Eight in U.S. Congress Willing to Support the People of Gaza
Where is the “Iron Dome” to protect the people in Gaza?
Why are their lives not worth as much as Israeli lives?
Debunking the myths about Gaza
To personalize this for a moment, imagine a bully sitting on a smaller child, and every time someone objects to the fact that the bully is beating the smaller child with an iron rod, the bully exclaims, “Well, he tried to slap me, so I was forced to defend myself.” No, you can’t claim that you’re beating the smaller child with an iron rod in self-defense, especially when you can end the entire confrontation simply by getting off him. Back to the political reality, Norman Finkelstein put it best: “The refrain that Israel has the right to self-defense is a red herring: the real question is, does Israel have the right to use force to maintain an illegal occupation? The answer is no.”
Peace in The Middle East: End the Killing
“Easy to understand, historically accurate mini- primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, how the US-backed process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference.”
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