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On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:47 PM, "Wythe Holt jr." <wholt at law.ua.edu> wrote:
> The US judiciary is indeed very bad, as many jurisdictional and substantive doctrines prevent the airing of big issues, while the appointment process ensures bias and unfairness amongst the judges. But, with respect, I think the media and the educational institutions are more important in preventing progressive change.
>
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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Wojtek S
> Sent: Mon 9/17/2012 4:32 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Chicago mayor takes legal action over strike
>
> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/09/20129171343235851.html
>
> "State law expressly prohibits the CTU from striking over non-economic
> issues, such as layoff and recall policies, teacher
> evaluations, class sizes and the length of the school day and year.
> The CTU's repeated statements and recent advertising campaign have
> made clear that these are exactly the subjects over which the CTU is
> striking," the school district said in a statement.
>
> [WS:] Those who bitch about Obama and DP take note. It is the
> judicial system - not the presidency or even legislative bodies - that
> is the main obstacle to instituting any meaningful progressive reforms
> in this country.
>
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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