For Immediate Release:                      Johnson collaborates with DPS EFM Rob Bobb in dismantling public education in Detroit Contact: Steve Conn. 313-645-9340 Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) nominal president Keith Johnson has brought internal union charges against union activists Steve Conn, Heather Miller and Tracy Arneau in a desperate attempt to bureaucratically eliminate opposition to his ill ...

  The Florida Bar has proposed a new rule to eliminate coverage of court proceedings by citizen journalists. The Bar’s proposed rule prohibits anyone other than an official court reporter or an employee of a traditional media outlet, as defined by Florida Statutes § 90.5015, from using any device which can make video or audio recording from being brought into a court including laptop computers.  Of course, ...

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power… What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy… If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behal ...

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/02/01/injustice-in-palestine-the-palestine-papers This episode features an exclusive interview with Kathleen Christison who will be deconstructing the recent release of the Palestine Papers and the damning revelations they reveal regarding everything from the US, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority, and their relationship to the ongoing struggle of Palesti ...

Grassroots “Save Our Schools” March on Washington & National Call to Action on July 28-31 This grassroots movement of teachers, parents, students, community activists, and “everyday working people” has been endorsed by educational voices like Diane Ravitch, Deborah Meier, Alfie Kohn, Joel Spring, Rethinking Schools' editors, David Berliner, among many others. Diane Ravitch will be one of the speakers at ...

"Survival, How Hard Can It Be? Part 2" was going to be the name of this installment.  However, I see that someone else on "Daily Censored" also appears to be calling for a revolution of sorts... Yesterday I wrote about the need to refocus our priorities on us.  Fighting wars, half way around the world, to ostensibly protect this country is pretty ridiculous if one, those wars keep generating new enemies and ...

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.--Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws.”  - Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, 1838. R ...

Egypt’s Struggle against US Funded Repression: Tales of US Sponsorship of Repressive Regimes By: Solomon Comissiong On January 25th, 2011 scores of Egyptians decided they were no longer going to tolerate widespread repression from the hands of their own government. This longstanding Egyptian government, headed by Hosni Mubarak, has ruled with a heavy hand for three decades. Throughout this regime thousands ...

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression ...

From Whose Perspective will You Follow: Thugs, Criminals and Slave Owners Serving as Selective American  Examples By Solomon Comissiong Like most US holidays, many American “heroes”, are manufactured based on a significantly flawed and biased “value” system. Individuals like Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan, are routinely propped up throughout public school systems as well ...