Happy Holidays from the Rouge Forum!

Dear Friends,

Happy Holidays from the Rouge Forum!

Remember the Rouge Forum Conference, Their Wars Left Behind, in Detroit, March 1 to 4, 2007.

The Rouge Forum No Blood for Oil page is updated.

Among the highlights are a Rouge Forum Broadside on How to Get Out of Iraq.

an indication of the possibility of troop refusals in the face of Bush’s demand for 70,000 more troops and a wider war;

a challenging video on past US covert operations;

a link to the newest edition of Cultural Logic with a fine piece by our friend Ted Allen on the connections of race and class.

In schools, where the NCLB seeks to regiment what is known and how people come to know it through curricula standards and racist high-stakes exams in order to turn educators into missionaries for capitalism, and kids into the empire’s warriors, the nation’s largest and richest union, the National Education Association took a sharp position against those who oppose the bi-partisan law. NEA’s bosses, led by what is unquestionably the least well-informed NEA President in decades, Reg Weaver, attacked Susan Ohanian and the Education Roundtable, urging NEA members not to sign the an online protest. The Roundtable responds here.

Here are three short paragraphs representing the consensus of the Roundtable at the NCSS International Assembly in D.C. Next year we will be bigger and better in San Diego.

Those unfortunately good for the rest of your life Rouge Forum posters, great for classroom discussion, are available cheap are available here.

And check out the IWW Pyramid of the Capitalist System.

Remember to give a sub to Substance Newspaper, the best hard copy newspaper on education.

We mourn the loss of a wonderful friend and member of the Rouge Forum, Marshall Michelson, who helped the RF from the beginning in every way he could. In the new year, we hope we can live up to the standards he set for intelligence, inner strength, humor, and perseverance.

We close with advice from Bertolt Brecht.

The Rouge Forum Updates will go on hiatus until January. Here’s to a new year of equality, democracy, reason, and freedom, and the courage it takes to get there. Meanwhile, you can join the Rouge Forum Discussion list here.

People can join the discussion list two ways:

1. Visit and applying for group membership.

2. Send an email to rougeforum@pipeline.com requesting to be added to the Rouge Forum Discussion list. Since we will have two lists (mailing list and discussion list), please clearly state that you want to be added to the discussion list, otherwise you will be just added to the mailing list.

Thanks to Gil, Phillip, Amber, Wayne, Susan, Dave Si., Joe B., Gordon, Jim3, Sandy, Gloria, Tom H., Greg J, Bill B, Greg and Katie, Bob A., Tommie, Betty W., Sharon, ZG, Laura, Kathy H., Monty, John DeW., Dave, Carrie, Judytheteacher, Joel S., Sally, Sean A., Connie, Pauline L., Pat S., Richard B, Marc, Currie, Kev, Perry, Steve F, Allan S, and so long BigM.

All the best, r

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