Looks good to me.
SJ
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From: Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 2:12 PM
To: San; Mark Lance; cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Phil
Subject: Operational re NyCORE rejection
Draft letter to send to Brie Picower, Edwin Mayorga and others as well as
NYCoRE official rejection people (whoever those nameless individuals are).
There is a letter and two attachments.
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8 February 2018
Hi Brie,
I’m not sure if you are still connected with NYCoRE, but I thought I would
raise this with you. Today, I received an e-mail rejecting the proposed
workshop of my group, Class Struggle Education Workers, at the upcoming NYCoRE
conference.
I’m somewhat perplexed as to how a workshop, titled “I.C.E. – Hands Off Our
Students,” about the urgent need for educators to advocate for our immigrant
students, could be turned down at a conference of radical educators. In
addition to myself, our panelists included representatives of CUNY-based
immigration committees and parents of immigrant children in the NYC schools.
Here is the text of our abstract:
Educators are in the front-lines in the battle over immigration. A
class-struggle strategy against raids and deportation includes rapid response
teams and labor mobilizations. School-based immigrant student support
committees and at CUNY campuses also provide immigrant-rights education;
demand no information on students be turned over; access to financial aid
programs. The walk-out of Legal Aid attorneys in the Brooklyn courts and Los
Angeles health clinic workers’ stand against I.C.E. sweeps in the Salvadoran
community are significant examples. We are UFT, PSC and DC 37 activists and
students fighting to make NYC schools and hospitals a sanctuary.
The rejection was unsigned, and stated “As an all volunteer organization, we
do not have the capacity to provide feedback on rejected proposals.”
Who are the people making these decisions? I have never heard of a
conference panel that insists they have no accountability and no process of
appeal. Or perhaps there is, in fact, accountability, to Goldman Sachs, the
Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation who provide the funding. Do we
conclude that that the NYCoRE leadership has decided they do not want workshops
from those interested in “Marxism and Education”?
For those who are unfamiliar with our history at NYCoRE, I’m
attaching a file summarizing our topical, and well-attended workshops at
previous NYCoRE conferences, as well as a brief overview of the workshops,
curricula, resources, and advocacy campaigns that we have made available to
educators at NyCORE, at the UFT and CUNY campuses.
I’m also attaching the full text of our rejected proposal.
I’d appreciate your looking into this, and letting me know what avenues of
discussion I have.
Thanks,
Marjorie Stamberg
Teacher, NYCDOE
Delegate, United Federation of Teachers
Member, Class Struggle Education Workers
