Arizona: Thousands of Teachers March to Capitol, Wearing #RedForEd

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1. LeftCoastTeacher says:

   April 26, 2018 at 7:39 pm

   Stunning image is right! Impressive, Arizona teachers.

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2. Joe says:

   April 26, 2018 at 8:05 pm

   Wow, that is amazing, an incredible show of force by the teachers. Arizona has a population of about 6.9 million in a very big state which makes the teacher demonstration even more amazing.

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   • ciedie aech says:

     April 27, 2018 at 1:43 pm

     the pictures speak the thousands of words so often IGNORED by the media

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3. GregB says:

   April 26, 2018 at 8:12 pm

   Beautiful. And to tag on to a comment from another post today, not a word on the CBS national news.

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   • Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

     April 26, 2018 at 9:33 pm

     Wait ! what ! the ” liberal media” .

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     • GregB says:

       April 26, 2018 at 11:54 pm

       I thought it was librul 😉.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       April 27, 2018 at 7:13 am

       LOL. Exactly.

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     • ciedie aech says:

       April 27, 2018 at 1:45 pm

       bingo…

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   • Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

     April 26, 2018 at 10:01 pm

     Well they got a call out on Rachel Maddow

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   • Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

     April 26, 2018 at 10:35 pm

     Holy cow…not a word. Says a lot. Guess cbs national news is not in the news business.

     Go AZ public school teachers! You made history today. Yeah.

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     • retiredbutmissthekids says:

       April 27, 2018 at 12:51 am

       And Sinclair doesn’t even own CBS…yet.

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     • ciedie aech says:

       April 27, 2018 at 1:44 pm

       may this inspire even more people to send out the pictures: beat the “national” news at its own game

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   • retired teacher says:

     April 26, 2018 at 10:38 pm

     NBC covered the story of the Arizona teachers.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       April 26, 2018 at 10:42 pm

       The AZ and CO protests got a minute on Rachel Maddow show

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4. momshieb says:

   April 26, 2018 at 8:15 pm

   You can literally feel the changing tides out there. Some of my most conservative friends have started to talk about the lack of education funding and how it has hurt generations of kids.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     April 26, 2018 at 9:43 pm

     That’s great news.

     The whole point of the phony reform movement was to pretend that charters and vouchers could substitute for funding.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       April 26, 2018 at 9:43 pm

       Fail!!!

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     • Norwegian Filmmaker says:

       April 26, 2018 at 10:06 pm

       The photograph of wall to wall people is what the WHOLE country should look like! This is inspiring.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       April 27, 2018 at 7:14 am

       Amen

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   • SomeDAM Poet says:

     April 27, 2018 at 7:24 am

     “The High Tide of Reform”

     Tide is turning
     Going out
     Teachers rising
     With a shout
     Organizing
     Walking out
     “Leaders” learning
     Of a rout

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5. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   April 26, 2018 at 11:20 pm

   I’m proud of every one of those teachers. Rise up against the autocratic kleptocracy and crush “it”.

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     April 27, 2018 at 7:12 am

     Yes

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6. retiredbutmissthekids says:

   April 27, 2018 at 12:53 am

   As per your Rachel Maddow “minute” comment, Diane: same comment I made about CBS–& Sinclair doesn’t even own MSNBC…yet.

   There is NO excuse for not covering a march of this magnitude.

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   • concerned citizen says:

     April 27, 2018 at 3:05 am

     Maddow was probably too busy blaming “the Russians!” for Hillary Clinton’s loss and all other grievances.

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7. Bob Shepherd says:

   April 27, 2018 at 7:12 am

   Wonderful. Teachers teaching other workers how to make changes in the New Feudal Order. A beautiful beginning.

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   • Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

     April 27, 2018 at 7:25 am

     Wishful thinking I am afraid . Much like the antiwar movement evaporated after the draft and the Vietnam war ended. This does not have the markings of a social movement yet. The problem is not that teachers and schools are underfunded . There is a fundamental problem in how people view the role of Government and taxation. A problem in how we view public goods.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       April 27, 2018 at 12:48 pm

       We shall see. There is a lot of discontent among US workers. Since the 1970s, technological innovations have led to enormous productivity growth, but workers haven’t realized any of that value. It’s all gone to the ownership class. And that innovation has displaced a lot of workers (call center employees, supermarket checkout people, secretarial pool employees, etc) and put downward pressure on wages. People keep going to the polls and voting for what they think will be change and getting, from Republicans and Democrats, more of the same. Lousy healthcare being the biggest of these. The question is, when do they start to wise up and vote the pigs feeding at the troughs of the feudal lords out of office.

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8. SomeDAM Poet says:

   April 27, 2018 at 7:19 am

   Looks like the start of the Boston Marathon

   ” The Teacher Marathon”

   The start of something big
   A marathon of sorts
   And ending of the jig:
   The teacher-bashing sports

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     April 29, 2018 at 4:01 pm

     Keep em coming, someDAM!

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9. Virginia Parent says:

   April 27, 2018 at 8:06 am

   So proud of these Arizona teachers!!! We wish you the best from Virginia!!

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10. patriciasplaceblog says:

    April 27, 2018 at 11:32 am

    It is reassuring to see so many teacher standing up for their rights. I hope this movement continues to grow.

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