Christine Peterson wrote:
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> But anyway, what I would like to do is to try to bring my union on board in
> supporting some sort of resolution or statement (or even better a piece of
> legislation - but that would be more complicated) which would link higher
> education to the corrections budget. the reason why I would like to do this
> comes down to my own personal motivations regarding prisons, but isn't the
> logic pretty undeniable regarding the zero sum game of budget allocations. I
> talked with a librarian in another union and she thinks the idea of phrasing
> this as a competition with the prison budget would be a bad idea
You don't need to attack them. Just pay for a billboard demanding parity for your job titles with prison guards. Let the irony speak for itself.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema