Comments on: No Cesar Chavez [Updated] http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: American Liberalism, Education And The Legacy Of The Civil Rights Movement: More On The Cesar Chavez-Charter School Controversy | Edwize http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-62151 American Liberalism, Education And The Legacy Of The Civil Rights Movement: More On The Cesar Chavez-Charter School Controversy | Edwize Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:55:39 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-62151 [...] insights into educational blogosphere debates, but he has completely missed the import of the controversy over naming anti-union charter schools after Cesar Chavez. Contests over political symbols — [...] [...] insights into educational blogosphere debates, but he has completely missed the import of the controversy over naming anti-union charter schools after Cesar Chavez. Contests over political symbols — [...]

]]> By: Sherman Dorn: Stiff spats over charter schools http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-62022 Sherman Dorn: Stiff spats over charter schools Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:18:44 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-62022 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Leo Casey's complaint about anti-union charter schools named after Cesar Chavez, including his rebuttal to Andy Rotherham's comment, and then Sara Mead's response, plus Joe [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Leo Casey’s complaint about anti-union charter schools named after Cesar Chavez, including his rebuttal to Andy Rotherham’s comment, and then Sara Mead’s response, plus Joe [...]

]]> By: jd2718 http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-62019 jd2718 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:42:14 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-62019 It's important that he be remembered for what he did, what he led. His name without a sense of who he was... well, that's what Rotherham would claim. Jonathan It’s important that he be remembered for what he did, what he led.

His name without a sense of who he was… well, that’s what Rotherham would claim.

Jonathan

]]> By: Democrats for Education Reform http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-62006 Democrats for Education Reform Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:27:29 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-62006 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] interesting debate that has been playing out in the blogosphere lately.It all started with an interesting post from United Federation of Teachers V.P. Leo Casey on Edwize explaining his early days in [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] interesting debate that has been playing out in the blogosphere lately.It all started with an interesting post from United Federation of Teachers V.P. Leo Casey on Edwize explaining his early days in [...]

]]> By: Rotherham’s despicable lies. (Updated) « PREA Prez http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-61998 Rotherham’s despicable lies. (Updated) « PREA Prez Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:46:27 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-61998 [...] Leo Casey responds to Rotherham: Over at Eduwonk, Andy Rotherham thinks it is “preposterous” to suggest that unions have more of “a claim” on the legacy of Cesar Chavez than an anti-union Chicana daughter of migrant workers. But this is precisely the sort of shallow identity politics that Chavez so strongly opposed — the notion that one’s ethnic identity, one’s parentage, is more important than one’s substantive politics and one’s actual work in the world. Chavez’s unambiguous stand on this question was exactly the point of the anecdote I cited in the original post. The notion that Chavez would lend his name to an enterprise that opposes the right of its employees to organize into an union and bargain collectively, whether those employees be farmworkers or teachers, is one that can only rest on a complete misunderstanding of his life’s work for justice for all working people. The argument that he would have foregone the core principles of that life’s work simply because opposition to them came from a Chicana is beyond incredulous. There are also a great many teacher unionists of Latin American descent, including notable AFT leaders, who would take considerable exception to the notion that the union to which they belong is an “Anglo” institution. Further, the notion that Chavez was a man whose principles could be bought for any amount of money, much less for $200,000 a year of AFT support for the United Farmworkers, is completely scurrilous. He led a life of great sacrifice for La Causa. Union solidarity may be a foreign concept to some, but in the AFT, it is a principle we hold dear — and that it why we have supported the UFW and other unions, when we could. We are proud of our solidarity work. That the claim of Chavez’s silence for money comes in the form of a report of a rumor of a personal conversation — none of it in the slightest verifiable — says just about everything that needs to be said on the subject. [...] [...] Leo Casey responds to Rotherham: Over at Eduwonk, Andy Rotherham thinks it is “preposterous” to suggest that unions have more of “a claim” on the legacy of Cesar Chavez than an anti-union Chicana daughter of migrant workers. But this is precisely the sort of shallow identity politics that Chavez so strongly opposed — the notion that one’s ethnic identity, one’s parentage, is more important than one’s substantive politics and one’s actual work in the world. Chavez’s unambiguous stand on this question was exactly the point of the anecdote I cited in the original post. The notion that Chavez would lend his name to an enterprise that opposes the right of its employees to organize into an union and bargain collectively, whether those employees be farmworkers or teachers, is one that can only rest on a complete misunderstanding of his life’s work for justice for all working people. The argument that he would have foregone the core principles of that life’s work simply because opposition to them came from a Chicana is beyond incredulous. There are also a great many teacher unionists of Latin American descent, including notable AFT leaders, who would take considerable exception to the notion that the union to which they belong is an “Anglo” institution. Further, the notion that Chavez was a man whose principles could be bought for any amount of money, much less for $200,000 a year of AFT support for the United Farmworkers, is completely scurrilous. He led a life of great sacrifice for La Causa. Union solidarity may be a foreign concept to some, but in the AFT, it is a principle we hold dear — and that it why we have supported the UFW and other unions, when we could. We are proud of our solidarity work. That the claim of Chavez’s silence for money comes in the form of a report of a rumor of a personal conversation — none of it in the slightest verifiable — says just about everything that needs to be said on the subject. [...]

]]> By: Eduwonk.com: More Teachers' Unions And Charters http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-61994 Eduwonk.com: More Teachers' Unions And Charters Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:19:04 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-61994 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] July 25, 2007 More Teachers' Unions And Charters This is preposterous. They're arguing at Edwize, and elsewhere apparently, that Anglo teachers' union professionals have [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] July 25, 2007 More Teachers’ Unions And Charters This is preposterous. They’re arguing at Edwize, and elsewhere apparently, that Anglo teachers’ union professionals have [...]

]]> By: Stuff I found while drinking my morning coffee. « PREA Prez http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-61979 Stuff I found while drinking my morning coffee. « PREA Prez Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:47:38 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-61979 [...] up yesterday. I linked it to Rotherham Watch. Now Leo Casey follows up in a very personal post on Edwize. He writes: There is an incredibly thin, transparent veneer to the right wing rhetoric in education [...] [...] up yesterday. I linked it to Rotherham Watch. Now Leo Casey follows up in a very personal post on Edwize. He writes: There is an incredibly thin, transparent veneer to the right wing rhetoric in education [...]

]]> By: Geof Sorkin http://www.edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez/comment-page-1#comment-61973 Geof Sorkin Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:16:02 +0000 http://edwize.org/no-cesar-chavez#comment-61973 Thanks for sharing this Leo, I found it to be very informative. It's quite a shame that we work in such a national climate that unions keep getting blamed and labeled as the opposition in lieu of receiving recognition for all that unions due for the working American citizen. Sigh...it's frustrating. Thanks for sharing this Leo, I found it to be very informative.

It’s quite a shame that we work in such a national climate that unions keep getting blamed and labeled as the opposition in lieu of receiving recognition for all that unions due for the working American citizen.

Sigh…it’s frustrating.

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