liars like amy goodman and paul street attempt to present her as such.
but there are other candidates running.
something even the green party has noted:
Greens celebrate expanding field of Presidential Hopefuls
2015-07-20 00:00:00
Atlanta, GA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 20th, 2015
For further information, contact:
Bruce Dixon, Party CoChair, 404-797-2087
Hugh Esco, Press Secretary, 912-571-1833
Senate vote shows even 'Socialist' Democrat Backs Privatized Schools
With a national Annual Meeting scheduled for this week in St. Louis and Ferguson Missourri, Green Party activists acknowledged today a growing field of hopefuls seeking the Green Presidential nomination for 2016. Besides 2012 nominee Dr. Jill Stein of Massachusettes who filed with the FEC in early July, Bill Kreml of Illinois and Kent Mesplay of California have also announced 2016 campaigns in media statements. Meanwhile Earth First! co-founder Daryl Cherney and California Party activist KCM Curry have both been testing the waters in an exploratory manner with broadcast media appearances and social media activity.
"It's a bad summer for public education," said Bruce Dixon, Cochair of the Georgia Green Party and managing editor of Black Agenda Report. The US Senate this past Thursday reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, including provisions to lock in Common Core, to make high stakes testing and run-the-school-like-a-business polices mandatory, and to require school districts to speed up efforts to privatize public education. "Elected Republicans and elected Democrats, including its 'Socialist' member from Vermont, support privatization while the Green Party and its candidates all oppose it."
Taxpayer funded, public education is a legacy of Reconstruction state legislatures, including Georgia where 19th Century McIntosh County State Senator Tunis Cambell led efforts to make primary and secondary education available to all students in Georgia.
But public education has been under attack for more than twenty years now, predating the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the Georgia state education reforms pushed by the administration of Democrat Governor Roy Barnes. An orchestrated attack of Koch Brothers financed Libertarian think tanks have sought to undermine the legitimacy of public education, the competency of public school teachers, the bargaining power of their unions and professional associations and the efficacy of taxpayer financed public schools which for nearly 150 years have made a secondary education available to every child in Georgia.
"The Bush Administration's NCLB Act served to set public schools up to fail, opening the doors for corporate competition offering educational services for private profit," says Bruce Dixon who has written extensively on the attacks on public education. "The Obama Administration with Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee leading the way have set the stage for last week'd Senate vote, and if we leave this to the corporate parties our grand children will be denied the educational opportunities we enjoyed. But as Greens, we are offering another option. In fact while our political opponents fight to destroy public schools, Green Presidential nominees including McKinney in 2008 and Stein in 2012 have both campaigned to provide debt free post-secondary education to every student willing to do the work."
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Georgia Green Party * 404-937-1847
P.O. Box 1936; Atlanta GA 30031
http://www.georgiagreenparty.org
Monday, July 20th, 2015
For further information, contact:
Bruce Dixon, Party CoChair, 404-797-2087
Hugh Esco, Press Secretary, 912-571-1833
Senate vote shows even 'Socialist' Democrat Backs Privatized Schools
With a national Annual Meeting scheduled for this week in St. Louis and Ferguson Missourri, Green Party activists acknowledged today a growing field of hopefuls seeking the Green Presidential nomination for 2016. Besides 2012 nominee Dr. Jill Stein of Massachusettes who filed with the FEC in early July, Bill Kreml of Illinois and Kent Mesplay of California have also announced 2016 campaigns in media statements. Meanwhile Earth First! co-founder Daryl Cherney and California Party activist KCM Curry have both been testing the waters in an exploratory manner with broadcast media appearances and social media activity.
"It's a bad summer for public education," said Bruce Dixon, Cochair of the Georgia Green Party and managing editor of Black Agenda Report. The US Senate this past Thursday reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, including provisions to lock in Common Core, to make high stakes testing and run-the-school-like-a-business polices mandatory, and to require school districts to speed up efforts to privatize public education. "Elected Republicans and elected Democrats, including its 'Socialist' member from Vermont, support privatization while the Green Party and its candidates all oppose it."
Taxpayer funded, public education is a legacy of Reconstruction state legislatures, including Georgia where 19th Century McIntosh County State Senator Tunis Cambell led efforts to make primary and secondary education available to all students in Georgia.
But public education has been under attack for more than twenty years now, predating the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the Georgia state education reforms pushed by the administration of Democrat Governor Roy Barnes. An orchestrated attack of Koch Brothers financed Libertarian think tanks have sought to undermine the legitimacy of public education, the competency of public school teachers, the bargaining power of their unions and professional associations and the efficacy of taxpayer financed public schools which for nearly 150 years have made a secondary education available to every child in Georgia.
"The Bush Administration's NCLB Act served to set public schools up to fail, opening the doors for corporate competition offering educational services for private profit," says Bruce Dixon who has written extensively on the attacks on public education. "The Obama Administration with Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee leading the way have set the stage for last week'd Senate vote, and if we leave this to the corporate parties our grand children will be denied the educational opportunities we enjoyed. But as Greens, we are offering another option. In fact while our political opponents fight to destroy public schools, Green Presidential nominees including McKinney in 2008 and Stein in 2012 have both campaigned to provide debt free post-secondary education to every student willing to do the work."
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Georgia Green Party * 404-937-1847
P.O. Box 1936; Atlanta GA 30031
http://www.georgiagreenparty.org
reject the dictates of a few liars, stop going along with the propaganda that jill stein is the nominee.
let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'
Saturday, August 8, 2015. Chaos and violence continue, protests return
to Iraq in a big way, Haider al-Abadi hails them as an early warning
sign, Ayad Allawi calls for the security forces to respect the right of
peaceful protests, Turkey continues bombing northern Iraq, Haider
al-Abadi compares and contrasts Turkey with Iran, and much more.
Protests swept Iraq today.
Protests swept Iraq today.
اعلام الربيع العراقي
التظاهرات الشعبية ضد الفساد الحكومي والفاسدين الذين حكموا وسرقوا باسم الدين وزعموا اتباع آل البيت في حكمهم
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The protests took place in may parts of the country recalling the last wave which kicked off in December 2012 and lasted through January 2014.
Back then, Nouri al-Maliki was prime minister.
#IRAQ شمرية العراق
Basra protesters had complaints.
They did not have new complaints.
And while it's true that citizens of Basra had already taken to the streets last month to protest, these complaints go further back.
They are among the complaints Iraqis made when they kicked off the December 2012 protests.
These grievances were real and genuine and they remain unaddressed.
Nouri al-Maliki may be 'gone' (as Mike noted recently, it's hard to call him gone when he is now one of three vice presidents of Iraq) and Haider al-Abadi may be the new prime minister -- for approximately a year now -- but the grievances remain.
Baghdad saw protests today.
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Protestors earlier today in Baghdad singing national anthem and holding
#Iraq flag in protest of corrupt politicians -
Mustafa al-Najafi
Ali Ajeena
Corruption.
One of the complaints of the 12/12 thru 1/14 protests, yes.
Also a grievance in the protests that kicked off in January of 2011.
To stop those protests, Nouri al-Maliki insisted if the protesters would leave the streets, he would end corruption in 100 days.
Refresher from November 8, 2012:
In a statement at his website, Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi declares the cancellation of the card system will have negative consequences. If corruption was a problem, the statement notes, then this is an indication that the anti-corruption campaign failed. The Grand Ayatollah is calling for an explanation and says it is needed quickly.
The anti-corruption campaign is a failure? That may refer to when Nouri grew nervous as Iraqis took to the streets in large numbers at the start of 2011. As February was winding down, Nouri was making many promises to try to hold on as prime minister. The Iraqi people had many demands and many justifiable complaints. There was the lack of jobs, there was the lack of public services (dependable electricity, potable water, etc.), there was the many 'disappeared' who had vanished in Iraq's 'justice' system. There was also the issue that they had voted and nothing had changed. Despite the outcome of the March 2010 election (Iraqiya came in first, Nouri's slate came in second), their votes were overridden. Nouri remained prime minister. Jalal remained president. Why did they even vote? (This was stated in word in speeches and to reporters and also in signs carried.) Nouri was spinning like crazy. And give him 100 days, he'll address corruption, he'll address jobs, he'll pull the moon from the sky and waltz it across Baghdad.
100 days came and went and nothing. Nouri plays kick the can with every problem. That means he refuses to address it. He kicks on down the road for a later time that never comes. He hopes to exhaust his rivals and he hopes to exhaust the Iraqi people. That has been his pattern since 2006.
He made those promises as the Arab Spring or 'Arab Spring' was sweeping the region and various rulers feared the people might run them out of office.
Iraq was ignored by the US cheerleaders for the Arab Spring (that would include Corrente which laughable claimed to be live blogging it).
But the protests in Iraq were rooted in genuine complaints and grievances and when the protests returned in December 2012, it was interesting to watch the Corrente types continue to ignore it -- even when protesters were attacked by government forces, even when Nouri had them attack reporters covering the protests (Corrente, like the New York Times, ignored this -- NPR and the Washington Post were two US outlets that covered the attacks).
Protests have returned.
Nouri's 100 days to end corruption in 2011?
It came and went.
All that happened was that Adel Abdul-Mahdi departed his post.
The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq member was one of Iraq's two vice presidents during Nouri al-Maliki's first term -- Tareq al-Hashemi was the other. He and al-Hashemi were named vice presidents for a second term in November 2010. Later a third vice president was named. Iraq dropped back down to two vice presidents after the national protests and Nouri's promise to meet the demands and to address corruption in 100 days. When Nouri failed to do so, Adel Abudl-Mahdi announced he was resigning and cited the government's inability to address the needs of the people or the corruption.
Nouri never addressed the corruption.
The protests have returned.
And, as All Iraq News notes, the Iraqi Parliament has issued a statement supporting the protests on the issue of the lack of electricity. Also supporting the electricity protests? Vice President Ayad Allawi. Alsumaria notes this and that he's called for the security forces to respect the right of peaceful protest.
The reason the protests have returned is because Haider al-Abadi has done nothing to address these and other concerns.
Hayder al-Khoei
Iraqi Spring MC notes protests took place in Najaf with the police firing guns just over the heads of protesters. Alsumaria reports that protesters in Samwah demanded better services.
Alsumaria reports Haider al-Abadi is calling the protests "an early warning sign" and insisting that austerity policies must be followed.
Well that's what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposes and that's why you never should take their dirty, blood money. Once you do, they own you.
Iraq never needed some billions from the IMF.
Dirty men like the State Dept's Brett McGurk stroked their dirty dicks to orgasm over the IMF loan and cowards like Antonia Juhasz refused to speak out.
Brett McGurk
Statement from the IMF after approving badly needed $1.24 billion in financial support for #Iraq - http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2015/pr15363.htm …
Iraq brings in billions from oil each year. It is not Ethopia.
It's annual budget is enough to make every Iraqi citizen a millionaire several times over.
The IMF loan was never about helping Iraq.
It was about controlling Iraq.
The clerics in Iraq who warned about it were ignored.
Betty says this site was the only one to call out the IMF deal in the US. I hope that's not the case but I honestly am not aware of anyone calling out the deal. (If you did, the e-mail is common_ills@yahoo.com and we will gladly note you.)
Haider al-Abadi was not installed last year by the White House because he was someone who would fight for or protect the Iraqi people.
He is as corrupt as Nouri.
No surprise.
Like Nouri, he is a Dawa Party member and he also was part of Nouri's State of Law coalition and Arabic social media has been filled with video of the two men giddy and giggling over shared secrets.
Haider was a re-set.
Anyone could have been.
But Nouri was so corrupt and so out of control that Iraq could not survive a third term.
The people of Iraq needed to know that there was a chance at change in some way or form.
Haider was a re-set.
And he has failed to change anything.
Which is why people are again taking to the streets.
People, of course, include reporters and they staged a sit-in today in Baghdad calling for Article 14 of to be repealed.
Protests also took place in northern Iraq's KRG where protesters gathered before the KRG Parliament to lodge their objections to the Turkish war planes dropping bombs on the region.
All Iraq News reports that Haider al-Abadi publicly declared today that Turkey needs to respect Iraq's sovereignty.
Alsumaria adds that he declared the PKK (the supposed target of Turkey) exists in Turkey and not Iraq and that the Iranian government is also opposed to the PKK but they (the Iranian government) have not bombed Iraq.
On the first day of the new month, UNAMI releases their death toll figures for July.
UNAMI
iraq
all iraq news
al mada
alsumaria
