Dear Friends,
The Rouge Forum No Blood for Oil web page is updated.
Those unfortunately timeless Rouge Forum posters on the war are for sale via the web site, making great holiday gifts for thinking people. Here is one link.
And the pyramid of capital here on infamous ebay.
Robert Fisk remains the sole on the scene correspondent who seems to make sense of these many crises, likely the prelude to world war three.
The massive uprising initiated by school workers in Oaxaca continues to sharpen, meeting sharp repression from paramilitary squads, probably led by the government, as well as Mexican troops and cops.
Narco News is still the best source on Oaxaca, despite a worrisome absence of solid analysis of the social forces at battle there. Many suggestions have been made for action in support of what can be called the Oaxaca Commune, from emailing the Mexican Consulates to the constant presence in front of the consulate in San Diego, which lasted more than two weeks.
Here is the Rouge Forum historical peek at Oaxaca.
However, the best way to support Oaxaca remains the patient, if urgent work, that we seek to do in transforming the system of capital through critique and direct action, to a caring community where people can live more or less equitably, democratically, creatively, in peace. That will, of course, be a fight, but the linkage of international imperialism, the Oaxaca struggle, related fights like the Detroit Teachers’ Strike, the regimentation of curricula and high-stakes testing must be at the base of any action in schools today.
Organization is central to this question. Without organization, nothing. We need our own organization, one that truly unites people in the spirit of solidarity, all for one, and that grasps our unity does not include those who profit from our labor, who rely on racism and nationalism to pit us against one another, fighting the enemies of our enemies. We need our own media, to help Substance expand.
The Rouge Forum Conference in March is key to continuing the construction of such an organization. Join Us!
We welcome the return of one Rouge Forum member, safe and sound, from Iraq, and hope the rest of you are back, and well, very soon.
We will be at NCSS in D.C. from November 29 to December 3 staying at the Grand Hyatt on 1000 H Street. Come visit. We’ll be presenting at the CUFA-International Assembly on Friday morning.
Next week we will announce the beginning of a Rouge Forum google group for pre-conference discussions, and more. The group will be open to anyone who asks to join it, but not open to non-members of the group. It will not be moderated, unless experience guides otherwise.
We will ask group members not to circulate material posted on the discussion group elsewhere, without author permission.
Please take a look at the insightful writing at the Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies publishing the work of many Rouge Forum leaders.
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