‘Refuse to Be Silent’ NEA President Tells Representative Assembly

National Education Association ^ | July 2, 2018 | Tim Walker

[mdittmar]

On the first day of the 2018 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Minneapolis, NEA President Lily Eskelsen García used her keynote address to stress the challenges facing educators and public school. While the climb ahead is steep, she assured the more than 6,000 delegates that a growing army of activists – educators, parents and students – are showing a way forward.

There is something different about this particular moment in our history, Eskelsen García said.  “Billionaires, like Betsy DeVos and the Koch brothers, have never been more embedded in political power. Billionaires are trumping the rights of working people to organize.”

The recent Supreme Court ruling in  Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,  a case bankrolled by corporate interests, dealt an undeniable blow to the ability of educators to come together and bargain collectively on behalf of students. But the assault isn’t ending there.

Billionaires are not only selling out our public schools in favor of voucher schemes and unaccountable charter chains, but they are bolstering an administration that is pushing inhumane and unjust immigration policies.

[mdittmar]

Darn Billionaires;)

[BenLurkin]

Union goons and Bolsheviks.

No wonder the Millennials don’t know which way is up.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If it takes a billionaire it takes a billionaire.

“He was with a rich man in His death.”

[A_Former_Democrat]

Defund Public “ education”. The NEA has turned it into a fraud

[prophetic]

Communism didn't die when the Berlin Wall or the Soviet Union was dissolved.

It massively migrated into the American Academia, the DNC and the MSM.

[farming pharmer]

Hilarious how that bimbette doesn't name billionaire Tom Steyer or billionaire George Soros.

[Deplorable American1776]

Refuse to be silent...unless if you're a Conservative, then Shut Up...NEA president. 😀

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Revolution is in the air. Everyone involved doesn’t care who gets hurt.

[Dick Bachert]

I believe it was Dr. Gary North who, years ago, coined a phrase to describe the activities of the Frankfurt and Fabian Socialists when he declared "When the socialists came to take over American, they sought to CAPTURE THE ROBES." The judiciary, the academics, the clergy and others who then (or in earlier times) wore ROPES or similar vestments as symbols of their authority or station.

While they went for journalism (adult opinion molders - and Columbia, where the Frankfurt School agents landed in1935 - was a major target) they went after what used to be called “Normal Schools”, the colleges and universities specializing in TEACHING THE TEACHERS. They were spectacularly successful as every TEACHER sent forth carrying the Marxist virus infected THOUSANDS of young people in a decades long career. Can you say "exponential growth"?

They were wildly successful and we have a generations long fight on our hands - if fight we will - to turn them back. And you have only to watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. or read the NYT, WAPO, etc. to see the results in that arena.

Former FBI Agent (back when - putting aside a self-serving J. Edgar Hoover - the tops of such agencies had not yet been infiltrated with leftist traitors)

Go to YouTube and type Larry Grathwohl to find out what these Cultural Marxists have in mind for US,

[Spok]

Yes, Democrats’ biggest failing is that they aren’t obnoxious enough.

[digger48]

“...bargain collectively on behalf of students”

WTF???

[LiberalismDestroys]

There is no way I would be able to accept these people in power.

[Enterprise]

Since when has the left been silent?

[Gene Eric]

WTF does Garcia know about our history?

Defund the NEA.

[Skywise]

These people, so-called, are in charge of our children.

They should be fired immediately. Political activism has no place in our schools and yet it’s exactly what these communists have been ramming into our children.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I wonder if Soros and Steyer are giving the NEA some “donations”?

Can anyone check on that and report back?

[ronnie raygun]

Billionaires are not only selling out our public schools in favor of voucher schemes and unaccountable charter chains, but they are bolstering an administration that is pushing inhumane and unjust immigration policies.

unaccountable funny

[wita]

“...bargain collectively on behalf of students”

That’s the same statement that sent me to the moon.

As if students are the first priority of the NEA.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Janus v. AFSCME

Cut off funding for these anti-American vermin!