http://peoplesworld.org/home/ http://peoplesworld.org/machinists-union-creates-website-to-organize-nations-unemployed/#PageComment_3145 Stop sending work overseas and bringing in foreigners to work in america. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:07:05 -0400 http://peoplesworld.org/machinists-union-creates-website-to-organize-nations-unemployed/#PageComment_3145 http://peoplesworld.org/black-farmers-settlement-is-win-for-all-family-farmers/#PageComment_3144 I have been waiting on this settlement for ten year as a child growning up on a farm and having to have work at a young age i think i need this pay off as a tax payer i need this setttlement. thank you shanta b natchez mississippi Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:13:23 -0400 shanta butler http://peoplesworld.org/black-farmers-settlement-is-win-for-all-family-farmers/#PageComment_3144 http://peoplesworld.org/defend-the-democratic-coalition/#PageComment_3143 What we are up against is the permanent corporate government, it becomes increasingly clear that despite the coalition that elected him, Obama and the government officials around him are not listening much to the "people's forces" but rather to those who financed his campaign and continue to give him a program of favoring that in essence favors the rich and the corporations. He is not FDR and the corporations are much more a part of the government than they were in the FDR period. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:08:13 -0400 Blair F. Bertaccini http://peoplesworld.org/defend-the-democratic-coalition/#PageComment_3143 http://peoplesworld.org/florida-senate-bill-is-attack-on-teachers/#PageComment_3142 http://specialedteach.wordpress.com/ My letter to Arne Duncan/Obama/the State of FL: I am extremely disappointed in your decision to keep NCLB (as it is). Not only has it been a huge academic and emotional failure but a financial one as well. States have not seen/been paid the money they had been promised when it was enacted and have had to suffer the burden. Kids do not come “one size fits all” and shouldn’t have to take a test that comes out of a box! What happened to the days that the teacher taught the curriculum & gave a test on such (individualizing on the student’s needs)? In the end, these tests don’t help raise SAT or ACT scores. Rather it tests the teacher!!! (It sounds good on paper but in reality it sucks! Can’t you just “revamp it” (a lot,) and just keep the name?) It will be a “rape” among all teachers if YOU allow “SB6” to pass. Many (if not all) states will follow, you will most definitely have unenthusiastic teachers, teachers will “quit” (regardless of the economy), more homes will foreclose, etc. In fact, I have completely stopped pursuing my Master’s degree because of it! I assure you test scores have gone down since the economy (where it’s been hit hardest). It should be obvious as to why… Furthermore, those teachers the schools’ don’t care for (I promise you) will obtain the poorest scoring students in his/her class in an effort to be rid of that teacher! What this country truly needs is another “Jimmy Hoffa”. I had hoped that Obama and his staff would have been at least half the man he was (in the form of a “cabinet”). It infuriates me that you are no more than “Bush lite”! Have YOU ever looked to see the MANY famous, well made, ambitious, creative, & scientific people there are/have been with “disabilities”? I guarantee you that they would not have passed your stupid tests! However, they all have/had their own unique talent that has lent us many innovations, theme parks, music, novels, etc. Having expertise in this area I can tell you that s/he may not necessarily be labeled “special ed.”. Often caring & observant teachers can accommodate for such a student; however, with your test in a box this makes the task impossible! YOU and as a results the administrators are taking all “power”, caring, creativity, enthusiasm, etc. out of the hands of those who spend 40+ hours a week with these children! Often times, we are the only adult some of these kids have to look up to. We are held up to a moral pedestal that should only be for those of “the cloth”. Yet, YOU, and the rest of society can do whatever you want on YOUR time and be forgiven, keep your job, move up the ladder, etc. We are people too, and while I do not agree with us breaking the law I DO NOT appreciate “morals” being placed upon us (especially when we can’t even teach them in class!)!!! I promise you that you will have less “professional” people transitioning into education if you “rape” teachers of their finances, dignity, and ability to care. Have you not noticed that there have been more perverts and such becoming educators? YOU have diminished our value, self worth, finances, power, ability to care, etc. I wonder what it would feel like for you to know that your child’s teacher felt this way??? http://specialedteach.wordpress.com/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:58 -0400 Tara http://peoplesworld.org/florida-senate-bill-is-attack-on-teachers/#PageComment_3142 http://peoplesworld.org/world-notes-india-france-paraguay-palestine/#PageComment_3141 The above story from Paraguay is an example of one of my favorite remedies for the Communist-living-in-the-U.S. blues: check out the news from Central and South America. Not every country has a president that would honor a Communist Party member, but our comrades to the south are on the march, and, contrary to right-wing wishful thinking, Marxism is alive and very well. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:18:12 -0400 Gregory Clark http://peoplesworld.org/world-notes-india-france-paraguay-palestine/#PageComment_3141 http://peoplesworld.org/the-guy-who-delivers-your-mail-takes-a-labor-history-tour/#PageComment_3140 Voices of labor in Royal Oak, come to Taylor and you will hear them! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:34:45 -0400 James Anderson http://peoplesworld.org/the-guy-who-delivers-your-mail-takes-a-labor-history-tour/#PageComment_3140 http://peoplesworld.org/senate-drug-sentencing-bill-reduces-disparities-not-far-enough/#PageComment_3139 Why don't they piss test the senate Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:31:53 -0400 James Anderson http://peoplesworld.org/senate-drug-sentencing-bill-reduces-disparities-not-far-enough/#PageComment_3139 http://peoplesworld.org/reds-put-jobs-fight-at-top-of-to-do-list/#PageComment_3138 Day after day, people are loosing jobs due to selfish deeds of those on top. The government needs to work harder to create jobs for people, employing them and making services available to those who are employed rather than sit around discussing how there needs to be more jobs. Follow FDR, he had the right idea. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:24:37 -0400 http://peoplesworld.org/reds-put-jobs-fight-at-top-of-to-do-list/#PageComment_3138 http://peoplesworld.org/tired-of-margarine-janitors-demand-health-care-as-their-butter/#PageComment_3137 Where is their Uaw brothers and sisters that expect the world to stop when their jobs are in danger!! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:23:48 -0400 James Anderson http://peoplesworld.org/tired-of-margarine-janitors-demand-health-care-as-their-butter/#PageComment_3137 http://peoplesworld.org/black-farmers-settlement-is-win-for-all-family-farmers/#PageComment_3136 I BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS TO SEE THIS SETTLER . I WILL BE 102 THIS JUNE I HOPE I AM LIVING TO SEE THIS SETTLER ,CARRIE SMITH BORN IN COURTLAND ALA Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:14:12 -0400 CARRIE SMITH http://peoplesworld.org/black-farmers-settlement-is-win-for-all-family-farmers/#PageComment_3136