Three over coffee.
Long week! But now we’re into a three day weekend. Three weeks of school until summer break follow it.
This is a crazy time of the year at work. May is when decisions get made for next year. It should be no surprise that when administrators make decisions, the work of a local union president increases. There’s not just a correlation. It’s a direct cause and effect.
The crowd at Peets was on the light side today. The holiday, I think. And we were later than usual.
Traffic was crazy because Whole Foods opened a new store across from Peets. The third largest Whole Foods in the entire world. Organic on steroids.
The Los Angeles Times versus teachers and students.
Over at Change.org Clay Burell reacts to our question as to why ed bloggers (outside of LA) have not addressed the outburst and revolt among teachers and and now students in the City of Angels.
Fred and Mike Klonsky ask why edblogs have remained silent on the L.A. teachers’ and students’ walkout last week in protest of education budget cuts and the issuing of thousands of teacher pink-slips.
Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton. What a pair!
Newt spoke at the EEP rally in DC last week. He was invited by Al Sharpton.
I went to Sharpton’s national close the gap rally on Saturday, but left early because I could not stomach listening to Gingrich speak to a largely African-American audience about anything. His record speaks louder than any words he can possibly utter. Gingrich perennially earned “Fs” on the NAACP’s Civil Rights Report Card while serving in Congress.
He was the architect of the GOP’s regressive “Contract with America,” which civil rights leaders derided as a “Contract on America.” In addition, he suggested that Republicans bypass traditional civil rights leaders such as Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. He said, “It is in the interest of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan to invent new Black leaders, so to speak.”
Anti-union Starbucks got punked.
Starbucks, a company that has aggressively resisted unionization, tried to use Twitter in their advertizing campaign. Robert Greenwald, who produced some of the best independent Obama campaign material on Youtube, punked Starbucks good.
As of this writing, the anti-Starbucks YouTube video has amassed over 30,000 views and was featured on the front page of social news site Digg. Greenwald said that Brave New Films is not done with its offensive against the coffee company, but he was hesitant to reveal his next steps.
