Wear RED on Tues, Jan 4th

[proud2BlibKansan]

Teachers/parents/taxpayers are being encouraged to wear RED on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, in support of public schools.

Teachers nationwide are being asked to also wear RED that day in support of public schools!

Please pass this message on.

[bdamomma]

1. k&r

[KansDem]

2. Hi, proud2BlibKansan! Thought you (and any other KC DUers) might be interested in this...

Got this in my email:

For Immediate Release Contact: Steven Woolfolk

December 29, 2010 816.701.3698

Concord Coalition’s Robert Bixby and Sara Imhof Present
Restoring Fiscal Sanity in Washington

(Kansas City, Missouri) – Robert Bixby and Sara Imhof discuss the state of the American economy, and offer bipartisan solutions to reduce the national debt and improve the fiscal outlook for future generations on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

In a program titled Restoring Fiscal Sanity in Washington, Bixby and Imhof will seek to cut through the usual partisan rhetoric and explain the causes and consequences of federal deficits and growing debt, and consider actions they believe can right the ship.

Bixby is the executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility. Imhof serves as the Coalition’s Midwest regional director and health policy analyst.

The Concord Coalition is dedicated to educating the public about the causes and consequences of federal budget deficits, the long-term challenges facing America’s unsustainable entitlement programs, and how to build a sound economy for future generations. The organization was founded in 1992 by the late Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), former Senator Warren Rudman (R-N.H.), and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson.

Admission is free. Call 816.701.3407 or RSVP online

Do you think showing up and telling them to end the wars, TARP, and Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy might be a good start...?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I'll go. Will you?

That's a great venue. My friend David confronted Richard Myers there last year. It was a thing of beauty.

[KansDem]

7. I should be there, too!

Maybe the Mrs.

See you there! :hi:

[Hannah Bell]

9. The Concord Coalition = right-wingers & debt hawks.

They want to cut social security & other public spending.

Which would include teachers.

On edit: I see you're recommending the tossing of verbal bombs. Carry on. Good work.

[femmocrat]

3. Being asked by whom?

We don't go back until the 4th, so it is pretty poor timing, IMO. (We have an inservice day on the 3rd.)

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Not sure who started it

I've received several emails and it's all over Facebook.

[femmocrat]

6. Thank you for spreading the word.

I don't read FB. I'll wear red and mention it to my colleagues on the 3rd.

[adnelson60087]

8. Let's all take a RED sick day Friday Jan 7

A RED sick day across the country will get the attn of everyone in a way that simply wearing red, will not. I'll support the red effort, but I know we need to go further. A lot further.

[southerncrone]

10. Agreed. Reality needs to strike!

Passive crap does nothing to affect change in this world.

But it will never happen because they will "guilt" us about turning our backs on the kids. :(

[adnelson60087]

11. We need to shame them about the damage they are doing to our nation's kids. Stop being the victim

and take the fight to them. If we don't, they will pick us apart, as we have limited resources and no venue for getting our message out.

[southerncrone]

12. Because we have no venue to get our message out, we cannot

take the fight to them. They control the media & therefore "our image". Because we are the front line, we will continue to be the "problem".....it's just too convenient. Thus, we are all victims....as are the kids.

I wish I were wise enough to find a way out for us all. I fear it will bring down our society in the end. All I can do is daily keep up my small fight.


"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."
Allen Ginsberg

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
Jim Morrison

[adnelson60087]

13. The answer is Numbers and Reality.

Most parents love their local schools and the teachers who provide their kids with a daily dose of educational goodness. If we can get just 30% of teachers across the nation to protest in the streets on RED FRIDAYS, public opinion will be with US. There are 6.2 million teachers nationwide...30% would be about 1.9 million teachers in the streets across he nation. And the Parents, who love their local schools and see our passion, driven by their kids' welfare, will not be spun. It just takes guts to do the hard things that won us public education in the first place, then civil rights, then equal rights for women, etc.

The biggest problem I see is that most teachers today do not have the will. We are good followers, but we need to be good leaders. If not, public education (our nation's legacy and last hope) will go the way of China, and none of our children will prosper. This is our test. This is our time.