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Steve Conn, suspended Detroit teacher activist, seeks our support: let’s give it | Dailycensored.com

Steve Conn, suspended Detroit teacher activist, seeks our support: let’s give it | Dailycensored.com

Steve Conn, suspended Detroit teacher activist, seeks our support: let’s give it

Picture of Steve Conn in the middle

from a Baltimore AFT teacher:

Hi all from Alan Rebar.

Let’s stand up for Steve Conn and the Defend Public Education/Save Our Students (DPESOS) caucus of the Detroit Federation of Teachers.

Steve Conn and three of his colleagues have been suspended from the Detroit Federation of Teachers. I present here the case for Conn, but don’t take my word for it. I attach also links to a relatively neutral news article, and statement against Conn from front page of official DFT website dated 2-28-11. Steve Conn will also gladly talk to you, email, or text. His phone number is 313 645 9340; his email is sjconn@msn.com. I think it is our duty to fight for our union, by standing up for immediate reinstatement for Conn and the other suspended members.

Conn and DPE/SOS have led fights for students, teachers, and real unionism in Detroit. They overwhelmingly won an appeal for a re-vote of the recent DFT election – which they “lost” by fewer votes than those that weren’t counted.

The current DFT leadership has gone along with a wave