"The same lies Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago Public Schools told the world to justify these closings are being repeated in New York, Philly, Atlanta, Los Angeles and scores of other US cities. By recording, recounting and reviewing these lies, comparing them to facts on the ground, CTU, the Chicago Teachers Union is doing an important service to students, parents, teachers and communities around the country." (The Black Agenda Report)
www.blackagendareport.com/content/one-year-after-chicago-closes-50-public-schools-chicago-teachers-union-assesses-lies-and-las
The report:
www.ctunet.com/quest-center/TwelveMonthsLaterReport.pdf
In a recent response to Linda, I didn't properly explicate what I call the manufactured dichotomy in the war against the people. Our rulers and their liars distract us from the true underlying issues and corporate goals by dividing us against each other to fight a meaningless battle, which supports their goals. We saw this with the "People's budget forums" hosted by Penn Praxis and recently with the AVI.
There is a complex multi-faceted war against public education. With the medias backing, they divert people to fight a false war between massive regressive taxes or massive cuts to essential government services. As we've seen time and again, the rulers plan to implement both attacks against the people, but rally us to fight on one side or the other!!!!
If parents and students call for more massive regressive taxes in the vain hope that it will save the schools, all that happens is that the people suffering from regressive taxes and corporate fees fight against them and all the people lose. Look at the way the money promised to public schools in Chicago was instead delivered to charters!!!! The same type of underhanded diversion happens here too, while the true solutions remain completely hidden from the people.
All of us need to come together against the school closings and against regressive taxation instead of fighting each other. Reversing the tax code to make multi-national corporations pay fair taxes, instead of receiving taxpayer welfare; and taxing the corporate non-profit institutions like Penn et al. would completely solve the manufactured revenue crises!
I repeat, the data is overwhelmingly clear! Those two revenue streams alone would solve all the crises being manufactured. And then we could talk about ending the war on drugs and all the other criminal attacks against the people of Philadelphia. Until this tactic is understood by the majority of citizens, we are doomed to lose all battles, as the corporate school destroyers laugh at us on the way to the investment bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....
Solidarity,
Glenn
