Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Wilma de Soto]

Wait until you see what happens today. Forty schools to be closed in
Philadelphia, hundreds of personnel to be handed over to private agencies,
or firedŠshould be fun.

From:  Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net
Reply-To:  Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net
Date:  Monday, April 23, 2012 11:02 PM
To:  UnivCity listserv UnivCity@list.purple.com
Subject:  Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad
Here¹s another excellent article.

http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public
_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entire


On 4/23/12 12:55 PM, Amara Rockar aroc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Found Muhammad's campaign report:
 http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pd
 f 
 
 This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in
 context:
 http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721
 
 
 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar aroc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance reports
 as required by last Friday.
 
 https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx
 
 It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full details
 of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.
 
 
 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net wrote:
 From Friday¹s City Paper:
 http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-ri
 
ch-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlgc=
y
 
 
 On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net
 http://kimm.ty...@verizon.net  wrote:
 
 I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
 ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can¹t seem to
 post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
 to forward to the other list.
 
 This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
 accident-gawker kind-of way.
 
 So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad¹s very expensive
 flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
 This week, several have been from ³Friends of,² but I noticed a number were
 sponsored by ³Women for Change,² a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty
 activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .
 
 I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
 surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
 attracted my interest for reasons I can¹t articulate moreso than others.
 The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
 Controller¹s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
 to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
 made by Students First, the provoucher PAC ³funded by Pennsylvania
 hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
 D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
 Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
 Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,² according to the City
 Paper article Jim cited.
 
 I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at
 http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.
 pdf .
 
 If you can open the pdf, search the document for ³Women for Change.²
 
 I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a
 report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
 office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
 Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
 Ms. Muhammad¹s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
 triple take on that ­ why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
 rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?
 
 I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals who
 have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal amounts
 of money into the state ­ even just the city, but this is where the
 strongest opposition to vouchers lives ­ in this election.
 
 Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She¹s not a
 grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
 she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
 necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
 She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses
 who want to eliminate public schools.
 
 And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students
 First was giving $20K to Muhammad¹s campaign in it¹s own name ­ at least
 then we know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel their
 money to astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda ­ it¹s
 sickening.
 
 I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty 

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Glenn moyer]

Title: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad























"The SRC recently voted to close eight schools, but at the time it acknowledged it would have to close many more in the future. With more than 50,000 students shifting from district schools to charter schools in the last decade, district classrooms now have tens of thousands of extra seats."
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20120424_Phila__School_District_plan_includes_restructuring_and_school_closings.html

As I roamed about New Orleans over the past week, I saw the skeletons of public schools everywhere. Before voucherssubsidize upper class families, I believe the plutocracy will firstuse the charter movement to destroy public education in Philadelphia. They know how to make us demandprivatization liteinstead of privatiztion final. (e.g. We condemn Citizen's United and super pacs,but support its twin, local censorship.)
While wesupport charters over vouchers, is anyone speaking for a society based on humanity and a "Marshall plan" for public education?I think working class parents would choose schools like the Bloombergs, Duncans,and Obamas attend, rather than vouchers or charters.
Peace,
Glenn

-Original Message- From: Wilma de Soto Sent: Apr 24, 2012 7:17 AM To: Kimm Tynan , UnivCity listserv Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad 
Wait until you see what happens today. Forty schools to be closed in Philadelphia, hundreds of personnel to be handed over to private agencies, or fired…should be fun.

From: Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.netReply-To: Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.netDate: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:02 PMTo: UnivCity listserv UnivCity@list.purple.comSubject: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad


Here’s another excellent article.http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entireOn 4/23/12 12:55 PM, "Amara Rockar" aroc...@gmail.com wrote:
Found Muhammad's campaign report:http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pdfThis article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in context:http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar aroc...@gmail.com wrote:
Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance reports as required by last Friday.https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net wrote:
>From Friday’s City Paper:http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlgc=yOn 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan" kimm.ty...@verizon.net http://kimm.ty...@verizon.net  wrote:
I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to post to the other list at the moment. But I need to post this. Feel free to forward to the other list.This is fascinating to me. Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of accident-gawker kind-of way.So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them. This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty activist has seen one. So I wondered . . . .I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports. One attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others. The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City Controller’s office on campaign contributions. It took me a little while to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City Paper article Jim cited.I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf .If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.” I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12. About when Ms. Muhammad’s promotional 

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Krfapt]

In a message dated 4/24/2012 8:22:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
glen...@earthlink.net writes:

I  believe the plutocracy will first use the charter movement to destroy  
public education in Philadelphia.
How would you answer the rational segment of the group that believes that  
the system of public education in Philadelphia (and elsewhere) has destroyed 
 itself with tools ranging from socio-political correctness in their 
permissive  attitudes toward children and parents alike, to excessive 
compensation 
and  benefit packages for teachers who are not held accountable for their 
own  performance?
 
-

Alan Krigman
KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts  Inc
211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918
215-349-6500, fax  215-349-6502
krf...@aol.com or  al.krig...@krf.icodat.com

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Mario Giorno]

Al,

  Would you rather reform the public education system of Philadelphia
and make it respond to the needs of all children and
have accountability standards for both teachers and students or destroy it
with a slow, painful death of a thousand cuts - school by school, district
by district?

  The private parochial (religious or non-religious) schools, charter
schools and private in-home or other tutoring systems are not a panacea for
educating all of the children in Philadelphia or the country as a whole.
This is the kind of major initiative and coordination that requires a
government-run educational system. If we follow the trend of school
vouchers and the continued removal of funds from the public education
system and follow it to its logical conclusion, we will have a community of
children who, at some point, will only get a basic education if they can
afford it.

  And if parents have to buy a K-12 education for their children
through a retail transaction, who's going to enforce truancy or deal with
children's behavioral problems when they do occur. If schools can just kick
any kid off of the rolls because they misbehave or are disruptive, who in
the end is going to help those kids become more disciplined? In this way it
seems that the private for-pay school/school voucher movement doesn't
want to help all kids, only the kids that the easiest to teach. Private
school companies don't want the hard job of disciplining kids or dealing
with their personal/family life issues which almost always find their way
into the classroom.

  Towns and counties in the U.S. are closing several public
schools because of austere budget cuts in order to deal with the deep
recession we've been crawling out of. It seems they're cutting off their
nose to spite their face. Conservative/Republican governors,
state legislatures and municipal governments are trying to choke the public
school system at a time when educating the children of America should be
one of our highest long-term priorities.


Mario

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, krf...@aol.com wrote:

 **


 In a message dated 4/24/2012 8:22:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
 glen...@earthlink.net writes:

 I believe the plutocracy will first use the charter movement to destroy
 public education in Philadelphia.

 How would you answer the rational segment of the group that believes that
 the system of public education in Philadelphia (and elsewhere) has
 destroyed itself with tools ranging from socio-political correctness in
 their permissive attitudes toward children and parents alike, to excessive
 compensation and benefit packages for teachers who are not held accountable
 for their own performance?

 *-
 *
 Alan Krigman
 KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc
 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918
 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502
 krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com




-- 
Mario Giorno
228 S. 45th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
westphi...@gmail.com

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[Amara Rockar]

Live stream here:
http://www.thenotebook.org/blog/124746/radical-district-reorganization-64-school-closings-planned


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Wilma de Soto wil.p...@comcast.net wrote:

 Wait until you see what happens today. Forty schools to be closed in
 Philadelphia, hundreds of personnel to be handed over to private agencies,
 or fired…should be fun.

 From: Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net
 Reply-To: Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net
 Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:02 PM
 To: UnivCity listserv UnivCity@list.purple.com
 Subject: Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

 Here’s another excellent article.


 http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public_ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entire


 On 4/23/12 12:55 PM, Amara Rockar aroc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Found Muhammad's campaign report:

 http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pdf


 This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding
 in context:
 http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721


 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar aroc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance
 reports as required by last Friday.

 https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx

 It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full
 details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary.


 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net
 wrote:

 From Friday’s City Paper:

 http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlgc=y


 On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, Kimm Tynan kimm.ty...@verizon.net 
 http://kimm.ty...@verizon.net  wrote:

 I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is
 ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can’t seem to
 post to the other list at the moment.  But I need to post this.  Feel free
 to forward to the other list.

 This is fascinating to me.  Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of
 accident-gawker kind-of way.

 So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad’s very expensive
 flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them.
  This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number
 were sponsored by “Women for Change,” a lame name if ever this lifelong
 lefty activist has seen one.  So I wondered . . . .

 I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with
 surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports.  One
 attracted my interest for reasons I can’t articulate moreso than others.
  The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City
 Controller’s office on campaign contributions.  It took me a little while
 to figure it out but it looks to me like it is a report on contributions
 made by Students First, the provoucher PAC “funded by Pennsylvania
 hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington,
 D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor
 Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers
 Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel Greenberg,” according to the City
 Paper article Jim cited.

 I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at *
 http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf
 * .

 If you can open the pdf, search the document for “Women for Change.”

 I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be
 a report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia
 office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to
 Women for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12.  About when
 Ms. Muhammad’s promotional materials started appearing.  I had to do a
 triple take on that – why make two 10K contributions on the same day,
 rather than one $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track?

 I am sickened on multiple levels.  First, just that wealthy individuals
 who have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal
 amounts of money into the state – even just the city, but this is where the
 strongest opposition to vouchers lives – in this election.

 Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers.  She’s not a
 grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American.  Well,
 she may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American.  But that does not
 necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now.
  She sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses
 who want to eliminate public schools.

 And I am sickened by the dishonesty.  It would be one thing if Students
 First was giving $20K to Muhammad’s campaign in it’s own name – at least
 then we know who they are and what their agenda is.  But to channel 

Re: [UC] Re: Fatimah Muhammad

[wil.phil]

This is the kind of comment one gets from one who has not set foot in a public 
school for quite a long time or has not taught in public schools.br /br /No 
one listens to people who are actually there.br /br /br /Sent from 
Xfinity Mobile App

[UC-Announce] Sun 5/29: Blues concert + children's program

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, April 22, 2012
at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Concert at 7:30: 

Cobalt Blues Band
Pumped-up Chicago  Delta style blues

Free Children's Program at 6:00

The Evolution of the Blues features Joe Becton, Cobalt Blues’ singer/harmonica 
player, a historian, and former National Park Service educator, demonstrating 
African American musical styles from their origins to the present day. Please - 
no unaccompanied children.

Tickets ($5-$15), sound samples, and more information:
www.crossroadsconcerts.org
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[UC] Does anyone want 3 tickets to see Titus Andronicus at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater?

[Patty Bulack]

Hello All,
I bought 3 $10 tickets for the Thursday night show without first reading
what the play is about!  I decided I can't really take my sons (ages 14 and
11) to see it, even though initially I thought the use of puppetry would
justify it...  there is apparently a lot of stage blood too!  All of which
seemed attractive, enough for me to buy the tickets!  However, after
reading the plot line I am bowing out!  Fairly gruesome, beyond what I
think the boys should see...
Does anyone want to take these tickets for $30?  Its a bargain, and the
play is directed by a brilliant person, Aaron Cromie.  My friend Davon
Williams is also in it, and he is excellent!
Let me know - this Thursday at 7:00 pm.  Please arrive by 6:30 pm.

Thanks,
Patty Bulack
pbul...@gmail.com

[UC] 2012 PRIMARY RESULTS - UPDATE

[Jim Roebuck]

Here are a few links that provide updates on the election results:

   -
   
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012-primary-results/?state=PAeid=39887site=KYWTVELN

   - http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/37479
   - http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx#C8-188


-- 
Friends of Jim Roebuck
435 South 46th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19143
Phone: 215.382.1268
Website: www.friendsofjimroebuck.webs.com

Re: [UC] Does anyone want 3 tickets to see Titus Andronicus at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater?

[Jim Cummings]

It is a great show. We already saw it.
Jim

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Patty Bulack pbul...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello All,
 I bought 3 $10 tickets for the Thursday night show without first reading
 what the play is about!  I decided I can't really take my sons (ages 14 and
 11) to see it, even though initially I thought the use of puppetry would
 justify it...  there is apparently a lot of stage blood too!  All of which
 seemed attractive, enough for me to buy the tickets!  However, after
 reading the plot line I am bowing out!  Fairly gruesome, beyond what I
 think the boys should see...
 Does anyone want to take these tickets for $30?  Its a bargain, and the
 play is directed by a brilliant person, Aaron Cromie.  My friend Davon
 Williams is also in it, and he is excellent!
 Let me know - this Thursday at 7:00 pm.  Please arrive by 6:30 pm.

 Thanks,
 Patty Bulack
 pbul...@gmail.com





-- 
Jim Cummings