Sunday, May 7, 2023
Colorado teachers union adopts anti-capitalist resolution
Colorado Education Association adopted a statement saying it believes “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor and resources,”
Colorado's largest union representing the state's public school teachers has reportedly adopted a resolution on economic equity that affirms the union’s views opposing capitalism.
The Colorado Education Association, which represents more than 39,000 educators and staff, has adopted a statement saying it believes “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor and resources,” according to a recent report from The Lion, a publication of the Herzog Foundation, a Christian education organization.
The resolution also said capitalism, an economic system that relies on private property and the market forces of supply and demand, stands in the way toward rectifying a number of societal ills.
“Capitalism is in opposition to fully addressing systemic racism (the school to prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy (gender and LGTBQ disparities), education inequality and income inequality,” the resolution stated, according to The Lion.
The Lion reported the union sent the version of the resolution that passed the assembly during the union’s 97th Annual CEA Delegate Assembly, which was held in April. It’s unclear exactly what the impact of the resolution will be on the affairs of the union.
A spokesperson for the union told The Lion that the resolution was not supposed to be “actionable,” but one Twitter user praising the changes claimed it means the union can now “advocate and lobby for anti-capitalist policies at the [Colorado] Capitol.”
The CEA did not immediately respond to Chalkboard Review’s request for comment.
The union says on its website that economic investment is one of its pillars, but the language used is not as strong as that in the resolution.
“CEA members believe education is the best investment we can make in the Colorado quality of life,” the website reads. “Every Coloradan shares the problem of our low economic investment in public schools and the challenge of achieving sustainable funding for a quality, 21st century public education system.”
The Lion reported that a previous version of the resolution included verbiage with a call-to-action.
“The only way to fully address systemic racism (the school to prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy (gender and LGTBQ disparitites), education inequality and income inequality is to dismantle capitalism and replace it with a new, equitable economic system,” the previous version read, according to...
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Saturday, May 6, 2023
Epstein’s Latest Victim: The Public’s Right to Know
A free press has devolved into regime media.
Amid the oppressive, choking miasma of lies incessantly and unaccountably belched by this sock-puppet administration, which is amplified, massaged, and muted as necessary by its lapdog media, dissent is essential and must be heralded.
Therefore, one should recognize and laud the Wall Street Journal for its revelatory report, “Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer.” The article endeavors to resurrect interest in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking ring. Whether it can facilitate justice for the survivors (many of them minors at the time), or spark further revelations about the predator Epstein’s connections with the global elite, is perhaps unlikely. The odds are stacked against such a just outcome. (Some outlets, such as the Daily Caller, have helped further the article’s reach, and these outlets also are to be commended.)
Yet, the Journal story did accomplish one goal resoundingly. By proving the exception, it proved the rule: a free press has devolved into regime media.
The default response to the economic stresses the communication revolution’s democratization of information has placed upon traditional news outlets has been more partisanship in reporting. Confirmation bias is big business. And, yes, the bias being confirmed is almost always a liberal or leftist one, given the ideological disposition of liberal older management and woke younger reporters. Yet, because of public expectations, not even the most biased outlets can patently express their partisanship. After all, our largely for-profit media’s goal is to survive and thrive.
Leave it to the Left to justify its departure from objective reporting into ideological proselytization. Welcome to the skewed world of “accountability journalism,” which is neither accountable nor journalism. As previously explained in American Greatness, accountability journalism
allows the Left to ignore any claim of objectivity in their reporting, in order to serve a ‘higher truth’ and ‘greater good’—specifically, the leftist agenda. It assumes one’s leftist ideology is the only acceptable one; and, ergo, its premises and conclusions are infallible. Any challenge to their personal partisan premises and conclusions are ipso facto erroneous—i.e., ‘disinformation.’
Accountability journalism is the seminal deceit in the Left’s effort to preserve its “fiefdom of the press.”
Oblivious to the irony of a morally relative ideology purporting to identify “the truth” (or is it “a truth,” or “my truth”?) when ideologically necessary to advance a political “narrative,” accountability journalism reaps what it purports to stanch: the erosion of public trust in the media.
This lack of public trust stems from a second factor: the media’s transmogrification from objective journalism to “accountability journalism.” The latter is merely a pretext for leftist...
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