by Doug Martin
A few days ago, WIBC 93.1’s Ray Steele and Mike Wilson, hosts of The 10 @ 10 Show, found a tweet by AFT Indiana and went into corporate bully mode.
The AFT Indiana tweet read:
“To all the heroes of
the education world headed back to the trenches: Good luck & Thank You!”
WIBC’s hosts were offended by the war metaphor, claiming
that teachers do not do anything like engage in battle from the “trenches” and that
it was “outlandish”
for AFT Indiana to make such a statement.
WIBC is owned
and operated by Emmis Communications. Emmis’
Executive Vice President is Scott Enright, a
board member of the Friedman
Foundation for Educational Choice, an Indianapolis-based national privatization propaganda mill started by economist Milton Friedman and Mitch
Daniels. Emmis, as I note in my book Hoosier
School Heist, was paid very well by the Friedman Foundation a few years
back for ads to push school privatization.
With a board made up of Overstocked.com’s founder
and many school privatization champions, the Friedman Foundation pays well,
too. In 2013, CEO Robert Enlow raked in
over $220,000 (see page
7). The Friedman Foundation has
funded the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity (page 39) and even the Indianapolis
Urban League, the latter to the tune of $20,000 in 2013 (see page
40).
As I mention in my
book, Milton Friedman knew quite a bit about war,
literally war against the people. In the
1970s after the CIA helped overthrow the democratically-elected president in
Chile, Friedman aided the new brutal dictator, Augusto Pinochet, in beating
into place a free-market scheme that still spurs protests in the streets. As Naomi
Klein and others have detailed, thousands of people were killed and
tortured who tried to fight off Pinochet and Friedman’s assaults against
humanity. In fact, it is now believed
that the great poet Pablo Neruda, a socialist, may have been killed
by Pinochet.
Friedman and his trained economists, the Chicago Boys, heaped havoc
on Chile, and the disaster capitalism to steal the public infrastructure you
see going on in America and across the world today starts with Friedman.
Of course you won’t hear anything about this on WIBC
or any other corporate media in Indiana or across these states. If WIBC’s hosts want to argue metaphor, maybe
they should read some Neruda. If not,
they should stick to discussing things they know something about, which is not
education. And maybe they should read a
bit of real history, too.
bastards. it is a war - but not with the students. the enemy is Alec and the kochroaches, minion pence, anti-education, anti teacher, anti union, anti-public school, anti-critical thinking, keeping the old rich white guys in charge and as many people afraid as possible,
ReplyDeleteYes! Right on, Kawanna!!!! Thank you for your comments.
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