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Glen Ford: Corporate Assault on Public Education
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
17 May 2012
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Why are hijacking the formerly left politics of Black America, and corporate takeovers of public education key to the hard right's agenda in the US?  In an address this month at NYC's All Souls Unitarian Church, Glen Ford outlines the linked history of these two right wing efforts, from vouchers to charter schools to the new wave of black politicians like Cory Booker.  
Click "read more" below for reference links.
To read Glen  Ford's 2002 articles on the origin and strange career of Newark's Corey Booker, click the links below
Fruit of the Poisoned Tree, Black Commentator Issue Number 1, April 5, 2002
Newark, The First Domino?  The Hard Right Tests Its National Black Leadership Strategy

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