Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More updates: Iraq Veterans Against the War gets involved: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3206 Battle of Wisconsin #9: Change of Venue http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3205 Battle for Wisconsin #10: Inside-Outside http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3207 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More updates: "The Past Two Weeks Have Completely Changed My Life" http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3203 Battle of Wisconsin #8: The Weekend Blues http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3193 Dan La Botz - The New American Workers Movement and the Confrontation to Come http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3177 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Seems the Wisconsin state apparatus wants to eject the mass presence of opposition to it (its ant-union olicy): http://www.bailoutpeople.org/widonteject.shtml What steps could be taken to challenge this? BA Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -Original Message- From: Mark Lause Sender: marxism-bounces+baba.aye=gmail@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:42:58 To: Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Live feed from the capital http://www.ustream.tv/channel/afl-cio-2010-rally Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/baba.aye%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Live feed from the capital http://www.ustream.tv/channel/afl-cio-2010-rally Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More from Wisconsin: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3174 http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3175 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Of course the trend everywhere is towards privatization of education. Defacto privatization is basically what happened with the University of Michigan a decade ago and it is what is happening with the University of California system right now. A charter system for universities however just sounds nuts. As privatization schemes go it just doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. I have to think it is a bone to the tea-party right more than anything else. The haute bourgeoisie, whatever their love of privatization, do need a semi-functional higher education system and that includes places like U of Madison and Ohio State. -dave On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > Hi, > > The rumor here is that Governor Walker is going to float the idea of a > "charter university" system...rather like their "charter schools" as a lever > to channel money out of public education. This is apparently also on the > agenda in Ohio > > ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi, The rumor here is that Governor Walker is going to float the idea of a "charter university" system...rather like their "charter schools" as a lever to channel money out of public education. This is apparently also on the agenda in Ohio ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wisconsin update: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3172 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wisconsin update: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3171 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More from Wisconsin: Another report from Andrew: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3169 A couple interviews with activists: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3168 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == update: http://solidarity-us.org/current/node/3163 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Report from the Battle for Wisconsin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An update: http://solidarity-us.org/current/node/3161 extract: "Democratic senators fled the state to break quorum and block a vote, and Friday seems to be a difficult and contradictory day. Public schools remain closed and thousands of UW students walked out today to join workers at the capitol, so there remains important grassroots energy but the situation is changing quickly. Major establishment leaders have taken to Madison, with a visit today from Trumpka and Jesse Jackson. Where until now there was a remarkable absence of bureaucratic control, Democrats, the AFL-CIO and WEAC have all jumped in suddenly. SEIU is sending a team of international staff organizers to take over operations at the capitol. Trumpka of course gave a rah rah speech this morning, and to say nothing about the obvious flaws with the AFL-CIO playbook and language of the "middle class", the atmosphere has shifted from solidarity detachments of local unions networking, organizing bottom-up by bullhorn and passing messages to major sound-system rallies with prominent speakers calling the shots. Much more troubling is the relationship between Trumpka and the TAA (graduate student AFT affiliate), as Trumpka came to personally address the TAA who have erected a semi-permanent office in the capitol building. Throughout the week the TAA has been trying to keep to a strict lobbying strategy and have disapproved of sit-ins and other militant demonstrations, but with Trumpka's arrival TAA leaders seem much more arrogant in their belief that they command activity and information inside the capitol; while most union members have been out conversing and talking about what's next, they've mostly been holed up in their private office and have reserved a number of rooms that remain empty. Word is that TAA leaders already see this thing as a lose and are acting accordingly. Democrats obviously made an excellent move fleeing the state to block the senate vote, but they're taking all the credit for resistance to attacks and today they're trying to scoop the movement into their party with chants like, "We Want Russ!" (Feingold), mass distributions of signs targeting Republicans and posting pictures of Democratic legislators in the capitol with slogans proclaiming their respect for workers. Of course, the reason we're in this mess to begin with is because the Democratic majority legislature stalled unions and ultimately voted down state contracts in Decembers, obviously setting up Walker to complete the pass. So as the labor bureaucracy and the Democrats step in to take over the movement internally, the state is also getting firmer. Until yesterday, it seemed as though there were more plain clothed police holding signs that read "Cops 4 Labor Rights" than actual uniformed cops on the street policing, but today dozens of state troopers are stationed in the capitol and they've blocked off the entrance to the Assembly and Senate rooms as they anticipate more sit-ins and/or anger over a potential vote on the bill. Remarkably, there has not been any violence nor any arrests to date." On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:18 PM, dave x wrote: > http://solidarity-us.org/current/node/3160 > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
