Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Friday, April 22, 2011

Union Worker, Please Read This

More importantly, a vote against the legislation by the executive board and the delegates would reaffirm the CTU leadership's commitment to union democracy, as opposed to presidential fiat.

http://socialistworker.org/2011/04/21/teachers-union-reform-crisis

What have we learned:


1, Capitalism sucks.

2, It can't be fixed.

3, It's undermining education in Chicago (and everywhere else).

4, Karen Lewis has to go.

5, Rahm Emanuel has to go

6, The Illinois Senate has to go.

7, Reform is nothing more than a chimera.

8, Unions, while beneficial, are powerless against Wall Street.

9, SB7 has got to go.

10, Presidential fiat has got to go, in unions and in everything else.



"We will not be free until the last bureaucrat is strangled with the entrails of the last capitalist." Anarchist maxim