DEFINE EDUCATION
Capitalism is hierarchy controlling a system that cannot function as democracy under these constraints.
https://portside.org/2022-07-08/inequality-power-and-class-why-language-matters?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email –The stories we tell ourselves as families and as a nation about the “haves and have nots” shape the opportunities and the struggles of millions of people. Yet in a country that still thinks “being classy” is a compliment, we lack an adequate language for talking about the realities of class and the experiences of class-based exploitation and discrimination.
In the US, discourses of inequality seldom are rooted to the nation’s long history of violent class conflict. Two examples of that history which come quickly to mind are the 1892 Homestead steel strike in Pittsburgh, which earned a place in labor history as the Homestead Massacre and the 1921 coal strike known as the Battle of Blair Mountain in which workers saw their homes bombed as they faced army troops. These were extreme but not unique moments in the history of labor. Oppressive working conditions and inadequate pay have never been an accident or the result of an oversight — they have been for profit.
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Centralization of thought is implicated in institutional education that seems intent on teaching students into the status of worker and consumer for better profiteering of hierarchy. The guest on C-Span offered relevant discussions about education.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521552-5/washington-journal-paul-peterson-discusses-education-policy-podcast-the-education-exchange — JULY 9, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 07/09/2022
Washington Journal
Paul Peterson Discusses Education Policy & His Podcast “The Education Exchange”
Education Next senior editor Paul Peterson discusses his podcast “The Education Exchange” and the loss of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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One was disheartened when at about 9:20AM the host asked Paul Peterson about his educational background. This feels in keeping with hierarchical presumption that institutionalization of resources bestows education, when in FACT in could be better viewed as indoctrination.
Some of The Founders, if they are relevant, received institutionalized education, some did not. But it seems what The Founders had in common was ongoing private study, with many owning extensive personal libraries. Topics may or may not have included economics, but what sticks out is interest in philosophy and religion. Within the memory of some Americans in 2022 is education from 60 years ago in which Latin was a part of the curriculum. That isn’t any longer the case. So why Latin? Many of the great books of the past, from which principles of religion such as the Judeo-Christian tradition has evolved, were written in Greek and Latin. To have the ability to read from the original forestalls hierarchical indoctrination into nonsense. As one who only reads in English, there’s much to be said about old books that include ideas pre-modern-day capitalism and educational process.
To what indoctrination does one refer? For example, the indoctrination that demands of fellow Americans, explanation of institutionalized credentials before having opinions.
From MRonline — https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=ae04ea99c2 —
How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor
Black Alliance for Peace condemns massacre of African migrants by U.S.- backed Moroccan armed forces
From Hegel to Lenin
The United States wants to prevent a historical fact–Eurasian integration: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
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From lakotalaw — Our partnerships make us strong, so I’m excited to announce a new collaboration between the Lakota People’s Law Project and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. We’ve been invited by Cherokee Chief Charles Hoskin to work with his tribe to push Congress to honor a promise made in treaties to the Cherokees, first in 1785 and then repeatedly afterwards. The pledge was to appoint a non-voting Cherokee Nation delegate to the House of Representatives.
Please add your voice by sending a message to your representatives demanding a Cherokee delegate in Congress. The Cherokee representative would be identical to those for American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. While the delegate would not have a right to vote on proposed legislation, s/he would have floor privileges and be able to vote in a committee of which s/he is a member and thereby introduce legislation.
The Cherokee Nation is a federally recognized Indian tribe with more than 385,000 citizens across the country that spans almost 7,000 square miles in northeastern Oklahoma.
The Cherokee Nation’s right to a congressional delegate is affirmed by all three of the tribe’s federal treaties: the 1785 Treaty of Hopewell, the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, and the Treaty of 1866. The Treaty of New Echota states that:
“The Cherokee Nation, having already made great progress in civilization… shall be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States…”
The only thing needed for the delegate to be appointed is for the House Appropriations Committee to pass the measure and for the full House of Representatives to then vote yes.
In 2019, Chief Hoskin selected Kimberly Teehee as the congressional delegate for his tribe. She earned a JD from the University of Iowa College of Law, and she served as senior policy advisor for Native American affairs in the administration of President Barack Obama. In February of 2020, she was named by Time Magazine as one of sixteen leading activists fighting for a “More Equal America.” She also served as the first deputy director of Native American Outreach for the Democratic National Committee and director of Native American outreach for President Bill Clinton’s 1997 inauguration.
Change comes one step at a time. We here at the Lakota People’s Law Project will always push for the sovereignty and empowerment of Native citizens. If you haven’t already, please send a letter to your federal representatives backing the inclusion of a Cherokee Nation delegate in Congress!
Wopila tanka — thank you for your friendship and active support.
Shaun Little Horn
Social Media and Marketing Specialist
The Lakota People’s Law Project
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Most Americans are aware that hierarchy has used institutionalized education to exploit and handle Indigenous People. Ironic is to consider that precepts in the US Constitution are said to have been borrowed from the Haundneosaunee in the Northeast. Add to that attempts by hierarchy to negate precepts of Indigenous People using so-called educational systems, and we may have the story of the USA in 2022. One considers the phrase in the Treaty of New Echota that says “The Cherokee Nation, having already made great progress in civilization… shall be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States…”
The only thing needed for the delegate to be appointed is for the House Appropriations Committee to pass the measure and for the full House of Representatives to then vote yes.”
We could have a discussion about the definition of civilization that the Cherokee Nation uses in urging acceptance into a US government Representation that functions so differently from precepts of the US Constitution with precepts borrowed from the Haundenosaunee. Inculcation into the US so-called educational system (by force, too often) seems to have accomplished its end.
Many people seem to wish to emulate those who have exploited. But to have a strong showing of Representatives within the US government is surely a beginning to change.
****As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate—-
This is a reminder of how much we don’t know. This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought. We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate. Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United. But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy. Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate. Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary. This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People. Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.
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Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”
Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly. It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.
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