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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

8-5-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: The rush to expose"Bad Teachers."

With A Brooklyn Accent:







The rush to expose"Bad Teachers."

The rush to expose"Bad Teachers."    From the mid 1940's to the mid 1950's, leaders in government, themedia, the trade union movement and the private sector spent anenormous amount of time and energy trying to expose and root outalleged Communists and Communist sympathizers. In the process, tens ofthousands of people lost their jobs, many times that number had theircivil rights and civil


8-2-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Love Letters to the BATS
With A Brooklyn Accent:The Link Between School Closings and Gentrification- A Chicago StoryThe single story that will remain with me longest from Washington was told by Badass Mom founder and Chicago parent leader Rousemary Vega at the workshop on Community Organizing the day before the March. After sharing heartbreaking stories of the harassment she and her family experience fighting the closing