San Francisco | Labor & Workers
| Title: | Laborfest: Films & Photos on US Schools and Mexico |
| START DATE: | Tuesday July 05 |
| TIME: | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM |
| Location Details: | |
| 518 Valencia, near 16th St., San Francisco. Near 16th St BART. | |
| Event Type: | Screening |
| The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman (65 min.) 2011 Produced, directed, filmed and edited by; Julie Cavanagh (teacher), Darren Marrelli (school social worker), Norm Scott (retired teacher), Mollie Bruhn (teacher), Lisa Donlan (parent). It is the antidote to the massive propaganda campaign to push privatization of education in the film “Waiting For Superman” last year. The film was also made by teachers and parents and is an antidote to the pro-privatization propaganda. The organized coordinated destruction of public education through charter schools and making the schools “profit centers” pushed by the Bill Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation is a critical issue for all those interested in defending public education. Teachers from San Francisco will join the discussion following the film. There will be a Photo display by Kilo of the more than 70,000 educators and other members of the Seccion 22 teachers’ movement in Oaxaca, Mexico, who are striking and taking occupation action against privatization and the destruction of public education pushed by US billionaires and Arnie Duncan, Obama’s secretary of Education. http://www.waitingforsupermantruth.org (Discussion follows) |
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Is it possible to create a “share with Facebook, (etc.) button so this can be easily posted and spread elsewhere? Thank you for doing this work!! I thought I had to quit my job and do it. NOW i don’t. Most best wishes. Andrea Doremus
Posted by Anonymous | July 10, 2011, 5:59 am