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Black Agenda Radio – 03.14.16
Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host,
Nellie Bailey.
– A national poll commissioned by In The Public
Interest has found broad support for reining in the spread of charter
schools and for making them conform to the same standards as traditional
public schools. The poll also shows majorities oppose an over-emphasis
on standardized testing in the classroom. David Cohen, executive
director of the In the Public Interest, said the survey shows Americans
continues to have a high regard for public schools and teachers, despite
the propaganda put out by school privatizers.
- Parents, teachers
and activists gathered recently, in Philadelphia, for a national
conference of the Opt Out movement, which seeks to end excessive
standardized testing in the public schools. We spoke with Dr. Denisha
Jones, a board member of United Opt Out, and an assistant professor of
Early Childhood Education at Washington DC’s Howard University. The
organization demands ““an equitably-funded, democratically based,
anti-racist, desegregated public school system for all Americans – one
that prepares students to exercise compassionate and critical decision
making.” Dr. Jones says none of this can happen if kids are spending all
their time taking tests.
- Robert Gangi, executive director of
the Police Reform Organizing Project, in New York, has been monitoring
courtroom activity around the city. Gangi reports that the courts are
busy prosecuting Black and brown men on minor offenses, an indication
that the “broken windows” philosophy of policing is alive and well in
New York.
- Earlier this month, a death squad assassinated
Honduran indigenous people’s leader Berta Caceres. Caceres was at the
top of the hit list for the Honduran regime that was installed in a
U.S.-backed coup, in 2009. She fought countless battles against land
grabs by multinational corporations. Her friend, Beverly Bell, a
co-founder of the group Other Worlds, says the regime and its backers in
Washington, killed Berta Caceres.
- President Obama will visit
Cuba later this month. The President claims his trip is designed to
further normalization of relations and peace in the region. But
political analyst Eric Draitser, founder of StopImperialism.org, says
Obama has scaled back tensions with Cuba while escalating Washington’s
war against Venezuela.
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Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host,
Nellie Bailey.
– A national poll commissioned by In The Public
Interest has found broad support for reining in the spread of charter
schools and for making them conform to the same standards as traditional
public schools. The poll also shows majorities oppose an over-emphasis
on standardized testing in the classroom. David Cohen, executive
director of the In the Public Interest, said the survey shows Americans
continues to have a high regard for public schools and teachers, despite
the propaganda put out by school privatizers.
- Parents, teachers
and activists gathered recently, in Philadelphia, for a national
conference of the Opt Out movement, which seeks to end excessive
standardized testing in the public schools. We spoke with Dr. Denisha
Jones, a board member of United Opt Out, and an assistant professor of
Early Childhood Education at Washington DC’s Howard University. The
organization demands ““an equitably-funded, democratically based,
anti-racist, desegregated public school system for all Americans – one
that prepares students to exercise compassionate and critical decision
making.” Dr. Jones says none of this can happen if kids are spending all
their time taking tests.
- Robert Gangi, executive director of
the Police Reform Organizing Project, in New York, has been monitoring
courtroom activity around the city. Gangi reports that the courts are
busy prosecuting Black and brown men on minor offenses, an indication
that the “broken windows” philosophy of policing is alive and well in
New York.
- Earlier this month, a death squad assassinated
Honduran indigenous people’s leader Berta Caceres. Caceres was at the
top of the hit list for the Honduran regime that was installed in a
U.S.-backed coup, in 2009. She fought countless battles against land
grabs by multinational corporations. Her friend, Beverly Bell, a
co-founder of the group Other Worlds, says the regime and its backers in
Washington, killed Berta Caceres.
- President Obama will visit
Cuba later this month. The President claims his trip is designed to
further normalization of relations and peace in the region. But
political analyst Eric Draitser, founder of StopImperialism.org, says
Obama has scaled back tensions with Cuba while escalating Washington’s
war against Venezuela.
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