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babyfinland posted:

i might vote for them, theyre on the ballot in WA. their program is basically a bunch of Good Things, Not Bad Things! and i dont think they really know what theyre talkign about but whatever. its a better third party vote than ron paul



Yeah they're definitely the party with the platform I agree with the most, and I'm going to become a member, but I think this just all means I'm a crazy person.

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tardy on these heaters
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aerdil posted:

babyfinland posted:

i might vote for them, theyre on the ballot in WA. their program is basically a bunch of Good Things, Not Bad Things! and i dont think they really know what theyre talkign about but whatever. its a better third party vote than ron paul

Yeah they're definitely the party with the platform I agree with the most, and I'm going to become a member, but I think this just all means I'm a crazy person.



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Mike Nelson here.
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lol don't join the psl please

or do, whatever, chaos reigns
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Online
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That's a big step for them, their first undercover cop
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getfiscal posted:

lol don't join the psl please

or do, whatever, chaos reigns



what do you recommend one does in service of the revolution, comrade

#46
Mike Nelson here.
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AmericanNazbro posted:

what do you recommend one does in service of the revolution, comrade

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Kurdt
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Fuck and Employ, by John "Maynard" Christy
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reminder that the ctu leadership endorsed the shit reform legislation that led to this last year. i mean that shouldn't be a surprise but this was new leadership elected on an anti-neoliberal platform lol
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the ctu vice president is an ISO member if you want to know the kind of high-quality leadership you can expect here lmao
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hi
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TROT_CUMLOVER posted:

the ctu vice president is an ISO member if you want to know the kind of high-quality leadership you can expect here lmao



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jiggago
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urkel really has a handle on the situation imo
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Mike Nelson here.
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i almost just typed out a post about how ISO works in theory but in practice they fail lol... mayhaps like all communism???
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jiggago
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a person i know gets very angry whenever someone brings up urkel because he is adamant that the duality between steve urkel and stephan urkél is the stupidest idea ever
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really? this is the first time they've struck in 25 years? i thought chicago was vaguely militant or something. the new south wales teachers federation strikes like at least a few times every couple of years, we used to get mad days off all the time when i was a kid
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

really? this is the first time they've struck in 25 years? i thought chicago was vaguely militant or something. the new south wales teachers federation strikes like at least a few times every couple of years, we used to get mad days off all the time when i was a kid


it's been 23 years since the last strike in los angeles and nearly 40 since the last strike in new york city, where teacher strikes are illegal. this is as militant as it gets in america.

the seiu local that provides services for the schools took a contract a few months ago with a no-strike clause fully knowing this strike could happen and now are obliged to cross the pickets for the schools the district is keeping open. it's okay, though, because they're wearing ctu stickers while they scab

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lost another strike to bourgeois legality!
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here's a thing
http://www.ctunet.com/blog/text/SCSD_Report-02-16-2012-1.pdf
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At the end of the 2011 school year there were 15,580 homeless students attending CPS schools.36 If all of the 370 social workers currently employed by CPS only provided services for homeless students, each would have a caseload of 42.
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LIBERAL EDUCATION - HIS EMINENCE JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
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animedad posted:



Simultaneously epic, and for the win.

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Goldgelbes Löwenäffchen
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jools posted:

animedad posted:

Simultaneously epic, and for the win.


dont sign your emptyquotes

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remember when i posted about stand for children and the possibility of a chicago teacher's union strike literally months ago
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nope, we forgot. and on this day of all days too.
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how dare those lazy bloodsuckers insult the memory of our fallen heroes on this of all days
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A newly-acquired secret agreement obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) confirms that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) diverted about $70 million, largely from teacher salaries and unemployment benefits, to avoid paying teachers a promised 4 percent contractual raise last school year. The money was instead given to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), mostly as payment for services previously rendered under prior agreements. CPS then falsely told the media that these payments were “owed” to CPD, and that CPS “had no choice” but to make these payments.

http://www.ctunet.com/media/press-releases/cps-diverted-70-million-to-city-police-to-avoid-paying-teachers-contractual-4-raise-last-year-then-lied-to-public

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since when does the city of Chicago give a fuck about FOIA petitions lol
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i don't think yall understand. the city is broke. can't afford anything!!

In a study of payment records in police cases since August of 2003 that were obtained from the City pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests, the People’s Law Office has calculated that the City has paid $63,909,929 in fees and costs to 11 private law firms in 447 police cases during that time period, with $18,895,165 being paid to lawyers to defend the City, Jon Burge, numerous of his confederates, former CPD Superintendents Leroy Martin and Terry Hillard, and now, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, in a series of cases brought by exonerated victims of police torture and wrongful convictions. In the Burge torture cases alone, the City has paid $15,288,388 in outside counsel fees since the City began to finance the defense of Burge and his men in 1988, and has paid $13,010,166 to defend police torture in these cases since 2003.

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TROT_CUMLOVER posted:

the ctu vice president is an ISO member if you want to know the kind of high-quality leadership you can expect here lmao



yeah heres one trot group complaining about another trot group:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/core-j12.shtml

who was that guy who used to post in lf who was in the iso? he was funny. I have to say though, obv the iso is terrible but this strike seems to show entryism works

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oh and while were talking about pointless left sects in the usa did anyone read about the FRSO endorsing obama despite his administration arresting some of its members? here's the beginning:

http://kasamaproject.org/2012/08/16/freedom-road-fightback-urges-votes-for-obama/

this shit is basically entertainment television for communists
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obv the psl is terrible, this is the person they nominated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWYiTcKR8dk

I'll be joining the bob avakian cult
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babyhueypnewton posted:

obv the psl is terrible, this is the person they nominated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWYiTcKR8dk

I'll be joining the bob avakian cult



hahaha oh my god

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i felt snotty calling it a children's socialist party but its true lol. is she even old enough to be president
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or vote
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tardy on these heaters
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i feel like if were to ever give a Serious Political Speech i wouldnt be able to make it through with a straight face. like i tried to picture myself giving that speech she's giving and after a few words i crack up laughing and its not at the content of the speech, just hte idea of a bunch of people who gave me money or their time on the hopes that i would be some sort of politician they could believe in and then having to demonstrate this with a few hundred words at a mic is so bizarre and sad, its like being a magician and volunteering shows at a mental hospital or something
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or read or write a speech which doesn't use the same word 5 times per sentence. running a national candidate is also a huge waste of time and money/resources. still the best we got in the heart of the labor aristocracy on this gay earth