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Oct 04 · Here is the breaking news from Chicago.
The gas has been cut off at an elementary school field house in Pilsen where dozens of parents have been staging a sit-in for nearly three weeks in hopes of convincing Chicago Public Schools to remake the building into a library. Araceli Gonzalez, a parent who has joined dozens of others in protest at the Whittier Elementary School field house, said three workers arrived at about 8:15 a.m. in a Peoples Gas truck to dig a hole on the sidewalk. A few
Oct 05 · I guess I'm an old collectivist at heart. I take the "We, the people" line to heart. I live in the United States of America. "We" means the entirety of the society to me. If you're here, you're part of the "we."
"We" all have responsibilities and rights. "We" are the society, since the society defines the word.
So, as a collectivist, I have to support providing services to the entire society, and that includes the curmudgeon who refuses to contribute to the collective pot. It includes the
Oct 04 · I was really surprised to read that an official of the public school system in Chicago would actually use that as an excuse for not giving in to the parents at Whittier. They should be ashamed to say that 160 schools don't have libraries...not use it as a reason to deny parents the library.
Surrounded by pots of food and refrigerators filled with milk and pop, Pilsen parents vowed Friday to remain entrenched through the winter in a field house that officials want demolished but parents
Oct 04 ·
The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 382
October 4, 2010
Meg Witless Edition
This week Meg Whitman (1), Carl Paladino (2), and Paul LePage (3) all do their best to blow up their own campaigns. Elsewhere, Linda McMahon (5) demonstrates how in touch she is with ordinary Americans, and Issac Stoltzfus (9) goes quite literally nuts. Don't forget the !
Meg Whitman
A quick public service announcement before I begin this week: if you are a DU member, please take our (if you ha
Oct 03 · This is a first, I understand.
I know that Teach for America, whose teachers get 5 weeks training before taking jobs of laid off experienced teachers...will get for being part of Americorps. Yes, they say they are non-profit, but districts must pay them a lot of money to recruit teachers for them. The districts could hire teachers locally, and it would not cost them a penny of recruitment money.
We learned that Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children Zone charter schools will get
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Oct 02 · Today was the first day of deer season (guns) in Oregon. For two days I have watched cars, trucks, RVs, camper trailers, etc., entering my little corner of the Deschutes National Forest (the southeast, high desert corner). Early morning today (Saturday 10/2/2010) sounded like a firefight in Viet Nam from up here in my fire lookout perch at 6500 feet. Poor Bambi.
After sunrise, I saw the predictable campfire smokes at various campsites. I plotted their positions and passed that info on so that
Oct 03 ·
(Photo: IanJMatchett)
Come Wake Me Up
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Sunday 03 October 2010
A poem I have loved a long time has been swirling in my head these last days, and I have been trying to figure out why. There may be no reason for it. If your brain is anything like mine, you have a Nonsense Channel that broadcasts 24/7/365. Sometimes, the signal is weak, a snatch of song or an advertisement jingle playing in the far corner of your mind. Other times, the sig
Oct 02 · From Juan Gonzalez at New York Daily News.
Zalcman for News. Awaiting results at Harlem Success charter lottery.
The image of hundreds of black and Latino parents packed in an auditorium desperately hoping their child would "win" the lottery and get into a local charter school has assumed mythic status in media reports on education reform.
Two new two documentaries, "The Lottery" and "Waiting for Superman," made such events the emotional climax of their narratives. The former cent
Oct 03 · Just got home from my night job, and wanted to share a thought...and a request.
Short back-story: I've been working for Truthout for almost ten years now, it's a non-profit organization, and we got creamed when the economy tanked. We rely 100% on donations to operate, and when the economic shit hit the trickle-down fan two Decembers ago, the donations pretty much evaporated completely. I volunteered to take a savage pay cut to help keep the place afloat, and in order to make ends meet, got
Oct 02 · I just finished reading a novel that in telling a story of some of the dark aspects of our country comes so close to reality that it could just about be considered a very long editorial rather than a novel (though it reads like a novel). It might be considered a very accurate historical novel, except that the history is too recent to put it in that category.
The book is �� by Barry Eisler. It is the 41st chapter, titled �The Oligarchy�, that I consider the most important part of the book,
Oct 02 · from AlterNet:
Posted by Terrance Heath at 7:24 pm
October 1, 2010
Conservatives Just Killed 240,000 Jobs
Posted by Terrance Heath on @ 7:24 pm
Conservatives in Congress just fired 240,000 American workers. Conservatives in Congress just killed 240,000 jobs. Conservatives in Congress just essentially added 240,000 more Americans to the ranks of the unemployed. However you frame it, people who want to work and have been working are soon to be out of work, thanks to GOP Senators m
Oct 02 · Tonight's debate was broadcast on Univision. One in five California voters is Hispanic.
Apart from revelations that Whitman fired her Hispanic maid after learning she was undocumented (and may have known so for nine years), her answers to issues of importance at tonight's debate in my view hammered the nails into her political coffin. For instance:
Brown accused Whitman of saying "one thing in Spanish, one thing in English" regarding government benefits for illegal immigrants. He noted tha
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