Surviving Capitalism (Not) : US teachers’ union endorses Obama for 2012 election

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

US teachers’ union endorses Obama for 2012 election

Click here to access article by Alexander Fangmann and Jerry White from World Socialist Web Site.

The National Education Association—whose 3.2 million members have been a major target of the Obama administration’s attack on public school teachers—became the first major union to endorse the Democratic president’s reelection bid in 2012.

This article highlights how much the ruling class has co-opted this US education union into serving the capitalism system.

For more detailed information on how this process has succeeded, read Chapter 3 of "The Business Roundtable and Systemic Reform", a 2002 PhD dissertation by Kathy Emery, from her website.