BLM St. Paul Founder Who Quit Says Black Lives Matter Is ‘Racist’ Against Black Children Over Charter Schools
The founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that the left-wing organization engages in a form of racism because it opposes school choice.
Rashard Turner, who left Black Lives Matter, released a video last week saying he learned the “ugly truth” about the group operates and claimed that “they had little concern for rebuilding black families, and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis.”
In an interview Wednesday with Fox News, he said Black Lives Matter came out and publicly signaled opposition to charter schools, which, according to him, was “a direct attack on black families” and “on black children.”
“Badass Teachers” Facebook group administrators uphold ban on WSWS writer Evan Blake
Administrators for the national Facebook group “Badass Teachers Association” (BATs) have voted in secret to uphold their ban on
World Socialist Web Site writer and Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Evan Blake. This decision was made without any personal communication with Blake himself and was only made public in a comment by BATs administrator Michael Flanagan on a post in the Facebook group “Teachers Against Dying.”
Responding to the post, which encouraged members to express their views on the banning, Flanagan commented: “I appreciate the enthusiasm in BATs and the publicity of a second article in WSWS. I did advocate for Evan’s reinstatement but it was a vote and the vote was no, not at this time. We are not here to be demanded of. You got the wrong people for that. But best of luck. Peace.”
Collective power and support in achieving universal climate change education were at the heart of the second meeting of Education International’s Climate Network.