We are in treacherous times and have to be very vigilant now.
In regards to the teachers labor movement in Chicago where we have to go to Federal Court for protection.
These people(Chicago Board of Education) we are fighting have no respect for the law and they are the government those two put together are the most dangerous to any people struggling for change and equity.
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:02 PM
It is the law! not when huberman sends out a memo.
if they mess with you report it immediately!
we are now protected by the federal courts. immediately.
forget about huberman he is a criminal.
this is not a game anymore is it serious.
if someone looks at you wrong turn them in immediately.
call me, jackson, george or debbie and we will get the message to the
attorneys and go back to court immediately for a violation of the
restraining order.
I am referring to a Federal Temporary Restraining Order(TRO) against the Chicago Public Schools for violating our rights to free speech and our right to organize as union members. I was then attacked and lambasted as the bad guy for speaking my mind and warning of things to come.
Restraining Order Granted Teachers Union Against Chicago Public Schools Corruption
The CPS Board of Education used in its defense against the Temporary Restraining Order to stop discriminatory actions against union members for participating in the union election process documents showing collusion of CTU officers with management (CPS) in asking for disciplinary measures against the same union members they were elected to represent and protect. Not only does the document proves beyond a doubt collusion of the union with management but shows the the school district is monitoring the activities of union members outside of there working time and in all areas of media communication. (Defendant's Memorandum of Law in Opposition, Case No. 10-CV-1783, March 24, 2010)
CTU COLLUSION DOCUMENTS
The Chicago Board of Education trying to get legislation (HB 5596) introduced by Illinois State Republican House representatives to allow the school board to to reopen the Chicago Teachers Union contract without the agreement of the union. The bill seeks to prohibit any educational employee from going on strike during the time when the contract would be opened by the school board because it does not want to fulfil the contractual agreement for salary increases. In addition to the prohibition on striking when the employer breaks the contract for not wanting to pay the negotiated pay raises, there would be significant penalties for striking: the exclusive bargaining agent shall be removed and declared ineligible for representation for 2 years; employer cannot deduct dues for the exclusive bargaining agent for 2 years; fines may be imposed on the bargaining rep and officers.
Illinois Republicans aim to further cripple Chicago Teachers Union - Substancenews.net
HB 5596 Bill to Ban Chicago Teachers Union
In the past union workers were murdered in the streets for the same rights now being taken away from us.
My harsh words are used to emphasise the point not to trust ANY! administrator until they have proven their loyalty to the cause with direct action, as Howard Zinn spoke of. Platitudes, promises and good gestures are tools used for manipulation and control.
My philosophy is "anti-control" free thought and expression, when these are allowed the best and brightest share there skills with all and the whole prospers rather than the few: Oppression then becomes unmanageable and obsolete.
There are many examples in history of tactical victories but strategic loss. The groups that believe they are victims and must over throw the tyrant to gain their rights are already at a loss because they have bought into the idea that they do not have power and only when they take power they will have it.
WRONG.
We have the power already but need to enforce it by direct action: whether it be by writing articles, using media, teaching the correct applications of the law, civil disobedience, litigation, organizing.....etc.
* Do not be a victim.
* Do not ask for permission to exercise your rights.
* Do not apologize for being assertive.
* Weakness breeds oppression.
Not everyone will like what I write but these are my ides and what I believe. I am fighting for my rights and for my family (I have four children and a wife) and my sisters and brother and for that I have been blacklisted, investigated and terminated from my teaching duties.
I do not shy away from struggle and some may say my methods and actions are direct and brusque but I know that when I go to sleep at night I did what was right.
Do I make mistakes: hundreds maybe even thousands but that is the only way to learn and progress as dialectics teaches. I have gotten word that the IELRB will take my filing of my loss of employment and file a formal complaint of an Unfair Labor Practice against the Board of Education for coercion and violation of my due process rights in retaliation for my union activities. This has taken me years to get to this point with many mistakes but the same message is always put forth: My assertion of my rights under the contract and state law.
I have done this on my own without the help of the union or anyone else, in fact the union is partly responsible for my dismissal and blacklisting (they requested it). Naturally then I use the F-bomb when I hear about being nice to an administrator or asking for permission after a Federal Judge has to step in and order the protection of our rights under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
It is better that I use that language to express my anger to make my point rather than physical force or repress my aggression into an unhealthy resentment or other semiotic subjugation of my mind and body manifested towards the outside world, plus what I what a stated was and is correct.
As I said before I stand by my statement and as I made clear to the people attacking me for my harsh words, if they wish to censor me or attack me for pointing out who the enemy is then that is fine with me, but this type of organizational indifferentiation is what leads to disintegration of the group especially in times of heightened conflict.
Here is something I read over the last holiday season:
To reinforce its social terror, which it forces individuals to experience as their own guilt, the capitalist occupation strives, through an ever more refined system of aggression, provocation and blackmail, to repress, to exclude, and to neutralize all those practices of desire which do not reproduce the established form of domination.
In this way the system perpetuates a centuries-old regime of spoiled pleasures, sacrifice, resignation, institutionalized masochism, and death. It is a castrating regime, which produces a guilty, neurotic, scrabbling, submissive drudge of a human being.
This antiquated world, which stinks everywhere of dead flesh, horrifies us and convinces us of the necessity of carrying the revolutionary struggle against capitalist oppression into the territory where oppression is mostly deeply rooted: the living body.
It is the body and all the desires it produces that we wish to liberate from "foreign" domination. It is "on that ground" that we wish to "work" for the liberation of society. There is no boundary between the two elements. I oppress myself inasmuch as that I is the product of a system of oppression that extends to all aspects of living.
The "revolutionary consciousness" is a mystification if it is not situated within the "revolutionary body," that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation. (Guattari, pp. 29-30)
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