A slideshow about the Mexico teacher protests
An Oakland, Ca., 6th-grade teacher created this slideshow about the protests and unrest in response to capitalist education restructuring (education "deform") in Mexico. It was originally shared by the folks at FairTest and Rethinking Schools.
View the slideshow... Welcome to the new site for Critical Work
Critical Work was started as a newspaper for worker democracy at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2008 by Royal Brevväxling and Lee Abbott. It was published in conjunction with our Worker Education Forums, meetings at which union members in the AFT and AFSCME locals encouraged other unions' members and those not represented by unions, such as all the undergraduate student labor on campus, to attend and speak to their work experience at the university, share stories and identify both shared issues and unique workplace injustices in order to collectively work to right them.
Read More … Open the Door
Monday night I read about Elizabeth Smart’s latest talk at Johns Hopkins University. Just a few hours later news reports were filed from a west Cleveland neighborhood about three girls. They had been missing for 9+ years and found Monday night just miles from their homes and their mint-condition childhood bedrooms. How?
I think “how” is a better question than “why.” But I’m asking optimists and realists and fellow feminists to disagree. Read more … |
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is at it again:
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Coming Soon
Critical Work talks to kids about their treatment by adults.
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When Barbara Gets Paid
New Poetry by Molly Brevväxling. |
Mayor Pitt
Brad Pitt for mayor of New Orleans?
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Overpass Light Brigade
Going strong with 25 chapters and a new documentary.
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Regarding "belonging"
An essay on the concept of "belonging."
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