Dear Friends,
Just a brief announcement, a reminder of the Rouge Forum Conference in Louisville coming up on March 14 to 16. Here is the conference schedule.
This will be the biggest Rouge Forum conference yet. It’s our eleventh year as the only education based organization in North America that has had the limited courage and common sense to link the regimentation of schooling and high-stakes exams (NCLB) to the system of capital, its promises for perpetual wars and meaningless jobs, its incessant drive for profits, and resistance through reasoned analysis, action for school and social change. We bring a wide variety of views together bound by a tradition of friendship. Plus we are fun. Come join us.
Here is conference organizer Adam Renner’s piece directed to the conference theme: Reform or Revolution? and an upcoming Counterpunch article, The Schools to War Collision; Whither the Resistance?
Joe Lucido’s piece, Democracy is not a Spectator Sport, was published in the Fresno Bee, demonstrating that there are still some openings in the corporate press for reasoned resistance work in education. It’s worth the candle.
Wherever you are from March 15 to 22, we hope you will march, protest, raise hell, and take direct action against the fifth year of the invasion of Iraq. We note that March 16th is the 40th anniversary of the war crimes committed by US troops at My Lai. Four decades of slaughter, and more. Enough.
Those in the Fresno area are welcome to join us at the Fresno conference at the end of March, and please sign on to the Calcare web site.
Thanks especially to conference organizers Adam and Gina, Sean, Connie Lane, Doug, Wayne, Barb V, Bonnie M, Kathy K, Sue H, Greg, Bill, Tom, Bob, Susan, Sherry, Candy, Denise, Tony H and Kino, Charlie, Kritz, Gary F., Chris C, Lisa, and Jill.
All the best, r
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