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Colorado Teachers' Union Makes Anti-Capitalist Activism an Official Goal
townhall.com ^ | 5/4/2023 | Juliana Rubio

Posted on 05/04/2023 8:18:52 AM PDT by rktman

You have to at least give the Colorado Education Association (CEA) points for brazen candor. At its 97th Annual Delegate Assembly in April, the state’s largest teachers’ union voted to formally oppose capitalism as an economic system.

The announcement came as little surprise to Coloradans who’ve watched as the union has veered so far to the left in recent years it’s now off the road entirely. What should set off alarm bells for everyone, however, is that CEA believes its militancy no longer has to be denied or defended.

A former Denver Public Schools teacher took to Twitter on April 22 to proclaim that Colorado's "largest union of over 39,000 education workers" had "just ratified a resolution...against capitalism as an economic system," meaning "CEA may now publicly advocate & lobby for anti-capitalist policies at the CO Capitol."

Although the union refuses to publicize the language of the anti-capitalist resolution, CEA President Amie Baca-Oehlert confirmed its existence in an email to inquiring media, stating, “After a lengthy discussion, the CEA delegates adopted one resolution this year related to the impacts of capitalism on our students, public schools, communities and state.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; communis; communism; education; milehigh; teachers; teachersaregarbage; unions
So sad. Parents? Is Boulder in charge of this? Asking for an acquaintance.
1 posted on 05/04/2023 8:18:53 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Close the public schools. These pinkos can find work cleaning the fryers at McDonalds.


2 posted on 05/04/2023 8:21:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: rktman

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4150677/posts


3 posted on 05/04/2023 8:21:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: rktman

Fine, they can start with giving up
Their salaries and perks, and begin working For free. (Not sure they would be worth it even then)


4 posted on 05/04/2023 8:27:31 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: rktman

Over 5000 years of history and only Capitalism has seen a rise in the standard of living across all members of that society. From Walden, New Harmony, and others to modern-day Venezuela, Socialism has always failed, yet these non-thinking twits want to try it again. The very definition of stupidity.


5 posted on 05/04/2023 8:29:21 AM PDT by econjack
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To: rktman

Kill a commie for mommy was always wisdom.


6 posted on 05/04/2023 8:31:24 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks. Guess I’ll just help spread the joy. 😁👍


7 posted on 05/04/2023 8:31:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Gee, they demand all the benefits of a republic and demand communism. What could go wrong?


8 posted on 05/04/2023 8:35:28 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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the CEA delegates adopted one resolution this year related to the impacts of capitalism on our students, public schools, communities and state.”

An abundance of food? Clothing? Modern dentistry? Modern everyday comforts and conveniences that were unheard of a century ago? The cheap availability of information, via books and electronic media? Social class mobility?

What is it that they object to?

9 posted on 05/04/2023 8:36:06 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: rktman

Shut. It. Down.


10 posted on 05/04/2023 8:39:04 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: rktman

Teachers are Garbage People these days.


11 posted on 05/04/2023 8:43:32 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus)
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To: Rurudyne

In my book, those teachers have each won a free helicopter ride
🚁

🤸🏻


12 posted on 05/04/2023 8:44:18 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Karliner

These con artists pretending to be teachers love communism, eh? They either don’t know or care about the hundreds of millions of deaths, not to mention producing some of the most evil tyrants ever to walk the earth, along with some of the worst environmental destruction in history (people think capitalism destroys the earth, but communism is even worse for the planet!)!


13 posted on 05/04/2023 8:46:45 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Sirius Lee

“What is it that they object to?”

That somebody else is making more than they are. And the lack of cool communist poster art.


14 posted on 05/04/2023 8:51:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: BenLurkin
These pinkos can find work cleaning the fryers at McDonalds.

Most of them are barely capable of washing the lettuce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70RQLtdVeU

15 posted on 05/04/2023 8:56:49 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: No name given

Their arguments are most always,” But we’ll do it right this time,” or,” America is already socialist, which programs would you cut?”

Ahh the latter, let me cut all the ribbons


16 posted on 05/04/2023 10:06:42 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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