Repost from ICE blog : ICE met on a zoom and discussed current major trends in the UFT: Three current elections pose a threat to Unity Caucus absolute control of the UFT (except for the 7 hs ...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/ice-endorses-in-trs-retiree-and-para.html
> I'M STILL RECOVERING FROM YESTERDAY'S RETIRED TEACHER CHAPTER > MEETING AND WILL REPORT ON IT WHEN I FULLY RECOVER. MOST OF THE > MEETING WAS ABOUT HOW AFTER 50 YEAR...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/sign-paras-for-fair-contract-petition.html
Are we nearing the end of Tom Murphy's reign as chapter leader? Possible successor, former UFT VP Carmen Alvarez, will be a mainline speaker today - I will report later on the lousy bagels ser...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/today-calling-uft-retirees-join-retiree.html
I posted about the para chapter election earlier where an alt slate to Unity called UFT PARAS FOR A FAIR CONTRACT is being formed. > Unity Changes Rules for Para Election without th...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/uft-paras-for-fair-contract-resolution.html
I've always believed that the chapter elections every three years are more important than the regular UFT elections (next one is spring 2025). These chapter elections in the schools and in the fu...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/unity-changes-rules-for-para-election.html
March 14, 2024 Today is Pi Day (π) - where we celebrate the circumference of the circle being a little over 3 times its diameter. Today is also the first day we can pick up petitions, open...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/retired-teacher-chapter-election.html
> “ SEEMS TO BE PULLING AT STRINGS, TO BE HONEST,” > PIZZITOLA SAYS. “I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE ANY ACCUSATION THAT > THEY CAN MAKE TO SEE WHATEVER STICKS.�...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/nyc-organization-of-public-service.html
> If it’s successful in this year’s election, Retiree Advocate has > its sights set on a bigger target: the overall UFT elections next > year, when the long-serving�...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/rtc-chapter-election-in-media-in-new.html
> Ben is the most qualified candidate for trustee on the NYC Teacher > Retirement System pension board. Help him get on the ballot. Vote > for him on Wed, May 8, 202...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/protect-your-pension-upcoming-trs.html
Feb. 27, 2024 Last Wednesday, ICE had another in-person meeting, the second this year: ICE Gathers - James Eterno Legacy, Retiree and TRS Election - is Tom Murphy Toast?, Whither COPE Sixt...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/ice-met-ice-talked-ice-ate-and-other.html
The past 2 weeks has been wrenching for the many James Eterno fans since he passed on Feb. 6. The past 2 days with the viewing and funeral have brought out hundreds of people. Monday night was ve...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/ice-gathers-today-james-eterno-legacy.html
SEE VIDEO HERE: HTTPS://DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM/FILE/D/127ZCDRRE7657PQWABWONWGNGQZBL5QI8/VIEW 300 RETIREES SIGN UP TO RUN A FULL SLATE IN THE CHAPTER ELECTION - AND WE HAD TO TURN PEOPLE AWAY. ...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/join-us-today-retiree-advocate-campaign.html
Randi and Bloomberg do the flip in mayoral control renewal 2009 Deja vu all over again? Mulgrew at the Feb. 2024 DA on Mayoral control – > -----when...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/will-mulgrew-flip-flop-on-mayoral.html
The family and the many friends and fans of James Eterno have been through a ten-month wrenching experience. James' political family in ICE has had a meeting scheduled for Feb. 21 before we learn...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/viewing-and-funeral-service-for-james.html
> WE'RE FUCKED ... MANY DEMOCRATS Sometimes I feel like rooting for Dems to lose due to their ineptness. Note the hysteria over the Republican special counsel appointed by Merrick Garland s...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/chronicling-democratic-party-immolation.html
> Mike Schirtzer gives James Eterno major credit for helping him > become an activist in the UFT. FEBRUARY 11, 2024 James Eterno: Mentor, Friend, Inspiration By Mike Schirtzer...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/james-eterno-mentor-friend-inspiration.html
> Along with all the other things James was about, he was the best > human being one can be... many comments > EVEN WITHIN THE UFT LEADERSHIP AND UNITY CAUCUS, JAMES...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/james-eterno-weve-lost-giant-tributes.html
I'm very interested in this discussion as I have not been in the loop on the details of the concept of settler colonialism. Many on the left view it from a racial lens, which has often been true ...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-is-settler-colonialism-nyt.html
I've been a science fiction fan since I was a kid reading Jules Verne. I don't read a lot of it but lately I've been focusing on getting away from politics and into the future. Kim Stanley Robins...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/01/norm-reads-red-moon-by-kim-stanley.html
"WE CANNOT TAKE A STAND AGAINST MAYORAL CONTROL AS LONG AS THE UFT WON'T OPENLY OPPOSE IT." POLITICIANS HAVE SAID THIS OPENLY TO ME. With the current sturm and drang over mayoral contr...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/01/uftunity-leadership-has-been-major.html
> ED NOTES, SEPT. 2002: WHEN UFT LEADER RANDI WEINGARTEN FLOATED A > PROPOSAL TO GIVE THE MAYOR CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN MAY 2001, > EDUCATION NOTES TOOK STRONG...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/01/in-2002-i-warned-uft-about-evils-of.html
December 25, 2023 -- ANOTHER YEAR, another poem from Fred. NOT A LOT OF CHEER IN A DISMAL YEAR. BUT DO NOT FEAR, WE HAVE FRED'S PHOTO WITH NY JETS DANCERS For us to share --- NORM'...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-nightmare-before-christmas-2023.html
>> I'm still reeling from Tuesday's retiree chapter meeting and then >> I get deja vu all over again while watching Morning Joe, with >> former Dem Senator Claire�...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2023/12/being-sureal-at-december-uft-retiree.html
> A CERTAIN FORMER CONGRESSMAN HAS BEEN VOTED OUT. DC CAN’T GET > ANYTHING DONE... MICHAEL MULGREW, DEC DA Monday, December 18, 2023 Finally, some truth from Mulgrew. How d...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2023/12/ugly-democracy-and-ugly-sweater-day-for.html
I began my report on an interesting 24 hour period with the Retired Teacher Chapter meeting on Tuesday which ended at 5:20. RAMBLING ON - A PACKED 24 HOURS + - HERE'S THE FIRST 4 HOURS - UFT RE...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2023/12/rambling-on-2-24-hour-saga-continued.html