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Monday, March 11, 2013

Dixon teachers’ strike. Testing the waters. | Fred Klonsky

Dixon teachers’ strike. Testing the waters. | Fred Klonsky:


Dixon teachers’ strike. Testing the waters.




PopoutBonnie Driver, Dixon Education Association.
If you are sitting and reading this post out of the state of Illinois you may only be vaguely aware of Dixon.
It is the childhood home of Ronald Reagan. But don’t blame his teachers for that.
It’s out I-88, past DeKalb. An hour or so before you get to Iowa.
The teachers union, an IEA affiliate, has been on strike for the past seven days.
On average there are about three teacher strikes in


Philly fights back.

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The in box. When did it become acceptable to take money from old people?

When did it become acceptable to take money from old people? That’s the question I have been asking. Because the truth is, it is not. And never has been. It is evil to hurt pensioners. It is evil to take money from people who have earned it. The pension is a life savings for years of hard work and study. It is earned, a kind of delayed wages.
So how is this happening? And maybe there is a glimpse of hope in the fact that there has been a delay in enacting the most hurtful legislation. We need to tap into that and celebrate that. We need to call out the leaders who advocate stealing from us. And we need to celebrate as heroes those who fight against a well-organized effort to officially steal from us, as the stealing is social