Photo credit: Humphrey M, Unsplash All of the Rearguard Battles The realization that all of the movements for peace and a better world had come up short struck me recently. Since around 1973 in my case, there had not been one instance of a clear victory to defeat the forces of reaction. That’s one hell of a long time! It’s one hell of a lot of failures! The last unequivocal achievement that I can name…
Photo credit: Library of Congress, Frances Benjamin Johnston Back to School Schools, public schools, have long been the whipping boy [sic] of the economic system of predatory capitalism in the US, which coincidentally has given us an exponential level of income inequality. Schools, once primarily public institutions, have not weathered the attack against unions and the surging movement for charter schools, which coincidentally do not measure up to their counterparts which they are attempting to…