Should Unions Tear a Page From Clicktivism Playbook? | Alternet

Should Unions Tear a Page From Clicktivism Playbook? | Alternet

Labor unions should be wary of the short-termism of many online activism sites.

February 27, 2013  |  

In the last half-decade a number of new online campaigning platforms have emerged, inspired in large part by MoveOn – the progressive American online campaigning group launched back in the Clinton era.

MoveOn, which now claims seven million supporters, has spun-off a number of similar platforms including Avaaz (a global version of MoveOn), SumOfUs (like Avaaz, but completely focussed on corporate misbehavior), 38 Degrees (a UK version of MoveOn), and GetUp (the Australian version).

In addition, there are commercial organizations like  Change.org, which charge fees to campaigners who wish to keep the email addresses of their supporters. (Click Link for More)

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Innovative California Progressives Help Return State to Sanity With Effective Organizing | Alternet

Innovative California Progressives Help Return State to Sanity With Effective Organizing | Alternet

February 28, 2013  | Progressives who want a path to a political future where an emerging electorate is bypassing the budget battles now afflicting Congress and where decades of damage wrought by right-wingers is slowly being repaired, should look to California. There, a historic coalition of local organizers and labor unions have been remaking the landscape since 2010 by engaging “overlooked” voters. (To Read More Click the link above)
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This is a great article. I've been saying this for years. The key to defeating a lot of the legislation that has overturned Affirmative Action and impacted immigrants to the U.S. can be found in basic mobilization. 

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TUSD Deseg Order: Read the final and official TUSD Unitary Status Plan here

Reprinted from Threesonorans.com

Withholding commentary for now, here are two quick points that will be of interest to most:

1. Page 27 (NEW) – Federal Judge Bury actually agreed with TUSD’s objection to having Advanced Learning Education (ALE) include Dual Language, so the final USP does not include it.
2. Page 37 – The most controversial part that people refer to when discussing “MAS” or “Ethnic Studies.” Notice that what is to be implemented is nothing of the sort, not even close, but rather a “Culturally Relevant Courses (CRC)” which still have to be approved by State Superintendent John Huppenthal, and which Judge Bury admits in his previous court order is subject to HB2281. Bury goes on the say that the state has a “powerful weapon” in stopping any class resembling MAS with their 10% budget cut power.

The Three White Men in charge of ending racism and segregation in TUSD, and problem they helped cause.

Also a fact is that the USP was written by a white man, the Special Master Willis Hawley, ordered by a conservative white judge, Federal Judge Bury, and must be implemented by the guilty defendant that is perpetuating the racism to begin with and also a white man, TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone.

Another fact is that Pedicone told the TUSD audience at the TCC that the racism is not a current problem, and appointed a person who believed racism no longer exists to supervise the MAS program, and Federal Judge Bury lifted the Deseg order on TUSD in 2009, believing that all racism and segregation in Tucson’s largest school district was gone.

These three white men are the ones in charge of ending racism in TUSD, and these three men are the reason the MAS program, which was created by Tucson’s Mexican American community, was killed and not brought back.

These three White Men know what is best when it comes to racism, just like the billionaire bankers know what is best when it comes to ending the foreclosures and poverty that they caused?

Tucson Unitary Status Plan 2013 Final Copy