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America is in a fluid state, however, people are asserting their worth
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A Philadelphia Starbucks made the mistake and brought racial profiling into their store in a punitive manner. The two gentlemen who were maligned and arrested by the police were polite, but like the freedom fighters of the sixties who asserted their worth at the Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, they stood their ground likely to make a point.
And then there are our teachers. Not to be denied, teachers asserting their worth throughout the country is gaining momentum. Mainstream media are timidly avoiding giving these strikes too much press. They probably figure the school year is almost done. Their corporate masters don’t want to glamorize these burgeoning labor heroes. After all, these teachers may be a catalyst to start right-taxing the corporate slackers who continue to benefit from welfare by another name.
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Occupy.com: Follow their 10-part series on public banking and economic justice. “The free market has failed as a governing paradigm of material life. Whatever the case for local markets in their specific context, large-scale competition and hierarchy are destructive, trauma-inducing conditions for people and the planet. For centuries, people have pushed back against those competitive and hierarchical models, advocating and experimenting with more cooperative and ecologically holistic economic visions. One of those visions is financial democracy: public or community control of the financial system itself. Recognizing that the generation and value of money are artificial, and that how we pay for things is fundamentally a political question, advocates of financial democracy see banking – the power to lend money and to create value through the act of lending – as an enormous power. Such power should be democratic, not autocratic. Subject to democratic control and administration, where the body politic is committed to egalitarianism and sustainability, banking could do great public good. Public banks can help save the planet from apocalyptic climate change by financing a quick post-carbon transition. They can guarantee employment in communities, facilitate the payment of dividends directly to citizens as a form of universal basic income, and ensure that state and municipal budgets are always healthy.”
ThinkProgress: Colorado teachers joined others across the country in demanding more education funding and higher teacher pay on Monday. About 400 Colorado teachers decided not to come into school to attend a rally at the Capitol and lobby lawmakers. Teachers want higher salaries, more education funding, and reforms to the state pension system. According to a recent Colorado Education Association (CEA) survey of more than 2,200 members, teachers spend $656 on average for school supplies and snacks for kids. Teachers sometimes cover students’ field trips and school lunches. “I’ve taught for over 34 years and it’s getting worse instead of better. We spend more and more of our own money to do things,” Poudre School District teacher Charlie McNamee told KDVR. Englewood school district cancelled Monday classes since 150 teachers said they weren’t coming into school. Teachers have also planned walk-ins in other areas of the state to draw attention to the lack of resources in many Colorado schools.
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