I’m often asked about the connection between labor and art, and what is that. Here is a concrete manifestation of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ25M1c3V9s
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing requested a statement from Safe Ground Sacramento. This is their statement, “Listen”, as presented to the U.N. in November 2009, a film by Costa Mantis, written by Mona Tawatao, Joan Burke and John Kraintz.
By Ben Joravsky
The Chicago Public Schools is a system so broke it can’t afford sophomore sports, wants assistant coaches to work for free, and has summoned hundreds of teachers to the principal’s office to let them know they’ll be laid off over the summer. But it can still afford to pay 133 central office officials more than $100,000 a year.
CPS CEO Ron Huberman - AP PHOTO/CHARLES REX ARBOGAST
That’s what budget reform looks like to schools CEO Ron Huberman.
About two months ago, when Huberman and the Board of Education cut sophomore sports, they said the district, roughly $900 million in the red, could only afford to let freshmen, juniors, and seniors play after-school sports—even after laying off dozens of well paid administrators.
It irked me that a city so rich it could afford to shower subsidies on profitable corporations such as United Airlines and MillerCoors to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars couldn’t afford to let sophomores play. Click here to read entire article.
