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Black Agenda Radio – 02.29.16
Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with host Glen Ford and his
co-host, Nellie Bailey.
– There is turmoil this presidential
primacy season, in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Dr.
Anthony Monteiro, the Dubois Scholar and veteran activist who helped put
together a national conference on the Black Radical Tradition, this
January, in Philadelphia, says the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
campaigns reveal a crisis in the duopoly political system.
-
Students, teachers, parents and community members in Detroit are gearing
up for a city-wide strike to defend the public schools, which have been
pushed to the brink of bankruptcy after 17 years of management by the
state. Among the leaders of the protests is Steven Conn, the elected
president of the Detroit teachers’ union, who was deprived of his seat
by the union’s national leadership. Conn says Michigan Governor Rick
Snyder and his appointed emergency financial managers are hell-bent on
destroying public education. Their current plan is to divide the Detroit
school system in two.
- A new study shows that Teach for
America, or TFA, which has been a leading force in the charterization of
the nation’s public schools, enjoys a special relationship with school
systems in Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans and New York. The lead
researcher for the study is Jameson Brewer. He says Teach for America
collects finders fees to provide school systems with novice teachers,
and protects them against lay-offs, while traditional teachers are
pushed out of the profession.
- The Alliance for a Just Society
has released a new report titled “Jobs After Jail.” The problem is,
there AREN’T many employment opportunities for ex-offenders, partly
because former prison inmates are prohibited by law from working at
literally hundreds of jobs. Allyson Fredericksen was one of the authors
of the report.
- As a lifelong activist, and a veteran journalist
and educator, Dr. Charles Simmons takes the long view. Simmons spoke
last week to a meeting on Black Men in Unions, at the Institute for
Labor and Community Studies, in Detroit.
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Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with host Glen Ford and his
co-host, Nellie Bailey.
– There is turmoil this presidential
primacy season, in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Dr.
Anthony Monteiro, the Dubois Scholar and veteran activist who helped put
together a national conference on the Black Radical Tradition, this
January, in Philadelphia, says the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
campaigns reveal a crisis in the duopoly political system.
-
Students, teachers, parents and community members in Detroit are gearing
up for a city-wide strike to defend the public schools, which have been
pushed to the brink of bankruptcy after 17 years of management by the
state. Among the leaders of the protests is Steven Conn, the elected
president of the Detroit teachers’ union, who was deprived of his seat
by the union’s national leadership. Conn says Michigan Governor Rick
Snyder and his appointed emergency financial managers are hell-bent on
destroying public education. Their current plan is to divide the Detroit
school system in two.
- A new study shows that Teach for
America, or TFA, which has been a leading force in the charterization of
the nation’s public schools, enjoys a special relationship with school
systems in Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans and New York. The lead
researcher for the study is Jameson Brewer. He says Teach for America
collects finders fees to provide school systems with novice teachers,
and protects them against lay-offs, while traditional teachers are
pushed out of the profession.
- The Alliance for a Just Society
has released a new report titled “Jobs After Jail.” The problem is,
there AREN’T many employment opportunities for ex-offenders, partly
because former prison inmates are prohibited by law from working at
literally hundreds of jobs. Allyson Fredericksen was one of the authors
of the report.
- As a lifelong activist, and a veteran journalist
and educator, Dr. Charles Simmons takes the long view. Simmons spoke
last week to a meeting on Black Men in Unions, at the Institute for
Labor and Community Studies, in Detroit.
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