Post by viola on May 3, 2018 21:00:58 GMT
Researching yesterday’s post I found a reference to the above book, the title of which brought me back to this thread. Coincidentally, the Common Dreams article from May Day’s protests recommended this editorial which emphasizes the importance of getting one’s voice heard.
Another related editorial discussed the Teacher’s strike in Arizona – a state that owes its very existence to labor’s opposition to the stranglehold of mining and railroad interests. Further, its constitution, “arguably the most progressive … at the time,” declared that its “legislature shall make such appropriations, to be met by taxation, as shall insure the proper maintenance of all state educational institutions, and shall make such special appropriations as shall provide for their development and improvement." Such a document would make the actions of that State’s GOP-run government unconstitutional.