WHAT:
Educator Rah-Rah For Jess Spear, Candidate WA. House, Position 2, 43rd Legislative District
http://www.votespear.org/
WHEN:
Sat. 2 Aug. - 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.
Sun. 3 Aug. - 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
Mon. 4 Aug. - 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
WHERE:
South end of University Bridge - if there are enough of us, let's cover both sides of the bridge into the U-District?
http://43rddemocrats.org/about-us/district-map
Note - there are a lot of major intersections in the 43rd LD - If you and others have different preferences, go for it! Let everyone know in the comments!
HOW:
Make a sign*, hang out on the street corner, wave at fellow citizens & chat with fellow educator rah-rah peeps!
*Mine will be ... "High School Math Teacher For Jess Spear" - a friend was thinking "Elementary Counselor For Jess Spear". I'm a math teacher, not a marketing, communications, art, copy writer, graphic design... guru. Express yourself!
WHO:
Washington Educators & Citizens!!
Contact rm sea mur&&&phy at gma il.com -- minus the spaces and the 3 &.
or, leave a comment in this diary.
WHY:
1. Ms. Spear's opponent Frank Chopp is Speaker of the House, has been in the legislature for several decades, and just isn't able to do more than lose against the 1% onslaughts orchestrated from the likes of Tim Eyman, Rodney Tom, and Whoever Is The 1% Master Manipulator Du Jour.
If working people are going to continue supporting people who can't beat the Rodney Toms, the Rodney Toms are going to continue beating us working people.
2. Consider what Barbara Madeloni, the new President of the Massachusetts Teacher's Association (MTA), said about the out going MTA President, Paul Toner. Mr. Toner is a lot like Frank Chopp and many in Washington State Democratic leadership - always telling us working stiffs we'd better accept some garbage 'compromise' or things will be worse.
Standing Up to Superman: An Interview with Barbara Madeloni
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/standing-up-to-superman-an-interview-with-barbara-madeloni/
"At that hearing, the current president of the MTA, Paul Toner, testified that in spite of what had been said, that the committee must move forward with the bill. His message to the membership was, once again, “If we don’t agree to this bad thing, a worse thing will happen.”
That positions members in a narrative about themselves that says that we are powerless, subject to forces that we can’t control. It’s painful for me to think that this is a narrative that people accept. It makes me sad to hear people talk about themselves that way. It’s such a small vision of life.
What our campaign offered was a broader, powerful vision of ourselves in community. We didn’t offer a simple militancy, but a deeper power to create our world, which is something that we as educators should feel when we head out into the day."
