State of Emergency: Teachers Organize
Teachers in California today are launching a weeklong effort across the state to pressure lawmakers to pass tax extensions and increases in order to prevent any further cuts to schools.
Events for what the California Teachers Association is calling the “State of Emergency” will be held in cities from Fortuna (Humboldt County) to San Diego, culminating with rallies in major cities, including San Francisco, on Friday. The effort, which will include sit-ins at the state Capitol, is one of the largest nonelection undertakings by a union in years and comes just a week before Gov. Jerry Brown’s scheduled May 16 release of his revised budget plan.
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May 10th, 2011 @ 10:02 am
From Robert Cruickshank:
“Better to devote their efforts at organizing in a few key GOP districts. Why not organize sit-ins at their offices in the districts? Stay there until the GOP members vote to put taxes on the ballot – and start circulating recall petitions if they don’t. Whatever the specific form of action, organizing in the districts themselves needs to be a top priority.
SD-12 and SD-15 (Cannella and Blakeslee) are two obvious targets, as is SD-19 (Strickland). There are a few ADs that might be picked off too, maybe AD-33, maybe AD-37, perhaps still others. CTA is getting a lot of pushback from their members in the school districts who are finally getting fed up with CTA’s inability to translate their money and their political pull into anything resembling action to save K-12 education. We’ll see if this is the start of something better, or more wasteful fail.”
Robert Cruickshank :: CTA’s Occupying the Wrong Offices
http://calitics.com/diary/13471/ctas-occupying-the-wrong-offices