Corporatism

The Charter School Mistake: Money To Corporations Not The Solution

October 2, 2013 Diane Ravitch, www.latimes.com Educate! Corporatism, Education

Charters and that other faux reform, vouchers, transform schooling into a consumer good, in which choice is the highest value. As large as the gulf can be between charter cheerleading and charter reality, it doesn't represent the greatest danger of these schools. They have become the leading edge of a long-cherished ideological crusade by the far right to turn education into a consumer choice rather than a civic obligation. Abandoning public schools for a free-market system eviscerates our basic obligation to support them whether our own children are in public schools, private schools or religious schools, and even if we have no children at all. The campaign to "reform" schools by turning public money over to private corporations is a great distraction from our system's real problems: Academic performance is low where poverty and racial segregation are high. Sadly, the U.S. leads other advanced nations of the world in the proportion of children living in poverty. And income inequality in our nation is larger than at any point in the last century.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – A Different Reaction To Disaster Capitalism

September 27, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

In her book “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” Naomi Klein explains how crises are used by governments to distract and frighten people so that unpopular and exploitative policies can be pushed through It seems that now there is a different reaction disaster capitalism. Rather than disasters providing cover for the implementation of dangerous capitalist policies that lower wages and increase the wealth divide, the disasters being caused by these dangerous policies have woken the public and are leading to a more active and empowered people. People are taking initiative rather than waiting for leaders. Ahmed states, “People are really hungry actually for answers, hungry for solutions, hungry for alternatives, so really this is actually an unprecedented opportunity.

Next Steps To Stop Trans-Pacific Partnership: Join The Fair Trade Brigade!

September 27, 2013 Flush the TPP, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, TPP

On Tuesday, October 1, we begin our focus on Congress with the Fair Trade Brigade. If you can join us in Washington, DC for a Tuesday to be in the brigade, register here. We will have a visible presence, will speak with staffers and will track how members in the House are going to vote on Fast Track. If you can't make it to DC, then organize a local Fair Trade Brigade and meet with your member or a staffer to find out how they will vote. Let us know how the meeting goes by contacting Cassidy at Stopfasttrack@flushthetpp.org. We will track the results on FlushtheTPP.org. Our goal is 218 "no" votes. And for some fun, start planning now for the Halloween TPP Tuesday.

Emory University Eradicates Visual Arts Department, Ominous Trend In Education

September 27, 2013 Lilly Lampe and Amanda Parmer, www.artandeducation.net Educate! Corporatism, Education, Finance and the Economy

The tactics used by Emory’s administration in arriving at these decisions and announcing the news––delivering the decision to the heads of the departments rather than engaging them throughout the process; blanketing the rationality, reasoning and facts of the decision making process in vague and ambiguous language; and sidestepping the impact this would have on the Emory community––strike a corporate tone rather than one of a democratic university. The effects continue to resonate throughout the university community as details of the decision-making process surface in an erratic and piecemeal fashion, stressing a need for greater transparency and analysis. Since the economic downturn in 2008, liberal arts colleges and universities across the country have reshaped their curriculums. They have narrowed the fields of study to prepare students for vocational work quantified by employment and statistical analysis,

A Corporate Coup Of Different Order: Growing Resistance To Trans-Pacific Partnership

September 27, 2013 Arthur Phillips, www.towardfreedom.com Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Government, TPP

Transparency was supposed to be a White House priority from the very start. In his first inaugural address, when the world celebrated an historic and improbable election, Barack Obama made the case for how an open government was necessary to earn the trust of the people.[1] The next day, he issued a memo that asserted his commitment to creating an “unprecedented level of openness.”[2] And in February, more than four years later, President Obama claimed his to be “the most transparent administration in history.”[3] Perhaps the least publicized example of that statement’s dishonesty is the White House’s efforts to negotiate the biggest trade agreement since the mid 1990s in near-total secrecy.

VIDEO: Taibbi, How Wall Street Hedge Funds Loot Pension Funds

September 27, 2013 Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Pensions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Number one, how did these funds come to be broke the first place? I think everyone realizes that states are in fiscal crises or having trouble paying out their obligations to workers. One of the reasons is that at least 14 states have not been making their annual required contributions to the pension fund for years and years and years. So essentially, they have been illegally borrowing from these pension funds, sometimes going back decades. Another focus of the piece was the solution that a lot of sort of Wall Street funded think tanks are coming up with now is to get higher returns by putting these funds into alternative investments like hedge funds. In a lot of cases what I’m finding is that the fees that states are paying for these new hedge funds and these new types of alternatives investments are actually roughly equal to the cuts that they are taking from workers.

PHOTOESSAY: Don’t Fast Track A Train Wreck March To Stop TPP

September 25, 2013 Ellen Davidson, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, TPP

On Tuesday, September 24, as part of the Stop Fast Track Action Camp, activists took the TPP Express for an accountability tour through Washington, DC. The message was that we don't want to Fast Track this train wreck. The train which was created over the previous 72 hours under the supervision of artistic director Mike Barczynski and Backbone Campaign director Bill Moyer (with help from a real train engineer Steve Chrismer and many volunteers who worked late into the nights) was assembled in front of the White House. President Obama (played by Tighe Barry) drove the out-of-control train. The tour began at the White House. This is where President Obama decided to start negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after campaigning on re-negotiating NAFTA so that it would be more fair and protect workers.

PHOTOESSAY: Banners Dropped On US Trade Office, Stop The TPP

September 25, 2013 Ellen Davidson, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Government, Jobs, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Photographer and editor Ellen Davidson tells the story of the banner drop at the office of the US Trade Representative on Monday, Sept. 23. The banner drop followed the Stop Fast Track Action Camp and was done to protest and expose the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership that is nearing the end of negotiations. The TPP is an agreement that provides a back door to the stalled WTO agenda. Unlike past trade agreements, the text of the TPP has been classified as secret. More than 600 corporate advisers have live time access to the text as it is being negotiated while members of Congress have restricted access, the media has been on a virtual blackout about it and the public only knows what has been leaked and what industry groups are reporting. President Obama has requested Fast Track from Congress which allow him to sign the agreement and later send it to Congress for an up or down vote.

Naomi Klein: Green Groups May Be More Damaging Than Climate Change Deniers

September 24, 2013 Jason Mark, www.salon.com Educate! Corporatism, Environment

"Well, I think there is a very deep denialism in the environmental movement among the Big Green groups. And to be very honest with you, I think it’s been more damaging than the right-wing denialism in terms of how much ground we’ve lost. Because it has steered us in directions that have yielded very poor results. I think if we look at the track record of Kyoto, of the UN Clean Development Mechanism, the European Union’s emissions trading scheme – we now have close to a decade that we can measure these schemes against, and it’s disastrous. Not only are emissions up, but you have no end of scams to point to, which gives fodder to the right. The right took on cap-and-trade by saying it’s going to bankrupt us, it’s handouts to corporations, and, by the way, it’s not going to work. And they were right on all counts. Not in the bankrupting part, but they were right that this was a massive corporate giveaway, and they were right that it wasn’t going to bring us anywhere near what scientists were saying we needed to do lower emissions."

Main Street Conservatives?

September 22, 2013 W. James Antle III, www.theamericanconservative.com Educate! Corporatism, Libertarianism

Just as Upton Sinclair afflicted the comfortable and brought about policy reform a century ago, a small group of conservative journalists seek to do much the same thing through libertarian means today. Among them is Tim Carney, once understudy to veteran Washington journalist Robert Novak, who compared his protege to Sinclair and praised as him as the “best political reporter among the outstanding young men and women who worked for me starting with the redoubtable John Fund in 1981.” Since an editor first urged him to dig into the obscure topic of the Export-Import Bank, Carney has developed a beat writing about the incestuous relationship between big government and big business, often assumed to be adversaries. Challenging this assumption jumbles all sorts of political categories.

The Financial Core Of The Transnational Capitalist Class

September 18, 2013 Peter Phillips and Brady Osborne, www.opednews.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Wars and Militarism

Almost all of the 161 individuals serve in some advisory capacity for various regulatory organizations, finance ministries, universities, and national or international policy-planning bodies. Western governments and international policy bodies serve the interests of this financial core of the Transnational Corporate Class. Wars are initiated to protect their interests. International treaties, and policy agreements are arranged to promote their success. Power elites serve to promote the free flow of global capital for investment anywhere that returns are possible. Identifying the people with such power and influence is an important part of democratic movements seeking to protect our commons so that all humans might share and prosper.

Pandora Radio And Shell Partner In Colorado To Promote Fracking

September 17, 2013 Roya Brown, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Fracking

So, I argued that if someone wanted to put an ad for prostitution, I am sure that Pandora would not accept it and I frankly don’t see any difference between prostituting your body or exploiting/ fracking earth. I also told them that the issue is not advertisement. I said that I know all the facts about fracking and I am not worried about myself. I am worried about all those young minds that are brainwashed about how good fracking is for them due to their ad. I also informed them that if this ad does not stop, I will turn the conversation to the fracking activists in Colorado and see what they think about Shell‘s ad transmitting through Pandora air. Pandora responded “I encourage you to take whatever steps you feel compelled to in terms of Colorado activists. I do appreciate your concern over a topic that is controversial to say the least.” For a while they stopped, the advertisement, but came back with vengeance later. Please post this story on your websites, facebook pages.

Mexico’s Teachers Fight Back Against Neoliberal ‘Reforms’

September 15, 2013 Scott Campbell, www.elenemigocommun.net Resist! Corporatism, Education, Worker Rights and Jobs

On December 1, 2012, while protests were being brutally repressed in the streets, Enrique Peña Nieto addressed Mexico for the first time as the country’s newly-anointed president. He outlined the five main goals of his administration and announced ten “presidential decisions” to achieve them. To reach his third goal of “quality education for all,” Peña Nieto stated he had decided to pursue a program of educational reform requiring the modification of the constitution and the establishment of a national evaluation system for teachers. And in doing so, Peña Nieto — the Butcher of Atenco and the signed, sealed and delivered choice of the ruling elite — made clear his intention to target education and take on Latin America’s largest union, the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE).

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 007

September 12, 2013 Denis Trainor, Jr,. AcronymTV, www.popularresistance.org Resistance Report Corporatism, Democracy, Syria, TPP, Video, Wars and Militarism

Stories covered in this Resistance Report: Occupy Turns 2, Rejecting American Exceptionalism, TPP Protests Escalate | Resistance Report #007 Rejecting American Exceptionalism In invoking American Exceptionalism as a reason we should intervene in Syria. President Obama is invoking the same principle that self empowers us remain “the greatest purveyors of violence on Earth today.” Occupy Turns 2 Occupy Activist Joel Northam reflects on lessons learned from Occupy, specifically, “regardless of their perceived power and influence that they maintain through brute force, the capitalists, with their incredibly linear objectives, who only exist to satisfy their insatiable lust for wealth and resources, along with the bureaucratic, top-down, mechanistic and predictable arm of state power that protects them, is no match for the fluidity, creativity, adaptability, ferocity, and soul of this sleeping dragon that is the people in struggle for liberation. Our task is to awaken it.”

Badass Teachers Soar To New Level Of Resistance

September 10, 2013 Mark Naison, Organize! Corporatism, Education

Now all of a sudden, a group appears, which symbolically and metaphorically, allows teachers to say "We've had enough. We are not your doormats. We are not your punching bags. We are some of the hardest working, most idealistic people in this country and we are not going to take it anymore. We are going to stand up for ourselves, and stand up for our students even if no organization really supports us. We are Badass. We are legion. And we will force the nation to hear our voice! In terms of what policies or organizing strategies will emerge from this group, only time will tell. But it is significant that there are clearly thousands of teachers in this country who are fed up with polite, respectful appeals to policy makers who hold them in contempt and are ready to fight fire with fire.

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