Did you ever wonder?

Where all those “Community Organizers” came from?  Especially during the last Presidential campaign when Obama’s employment prior to his two-year stint in the Illinois state senate was as a “Community Organizer”?

Did you know that right now in Phoenix you can “enlist” for a year long PAID training program with the “Green Corp”? (Want to guess what they’re all about?)

Did you know the size and scope – not to mention paid jobs – of the William J. Clinton Foundation?

I am wondering now, how much state funding finds its way into Teach America?  And exactly what do they mean by “progressive education” and “progressive change” anyway?  While our side is squabbling among ourselves, the opposition is playing offense.

In looking at the state education budget and programs, and thinking about the piece here showing the “Chicano Community Activist”, I began to do some research.  Below is a quote from the Idealist website from the listing of M.E.Ch.A. Mesa Arizona.  And I hate to disappoint you, but they don’t have any job openings today.  [But this website is chock full of job listings - paid, job listings]

“M.E.Ch.A. is a first step to tying the students groups throughout the Southwest into a vibrant and responsive network of activists who will respond as a unit to oppression and racism and will work in harmony when initiating and carrying put campaigns of liberation for our people.
M.E.Ch.A. must bring to the mind of every young Chicano that the liberations of this people from prejudice and oppression is in his hands and this responsibility is greater than personal achievement and more meaningful that degrees, especially if they are earned at the expense of his identity and cultural integrity.
M.E.Ch.A., then, is more than a name; it is a spirit of unity, of brotherhood, and a resolve to undertake a struggle for liberation in society where justice is but a word. M.E.Ch.A. is a means to an end.”
www.idealist.org
Note: you’ll have to register to see the good stuff.  But hey, why not?  Aren’t you interested in a progressive future too?  And members of the House and Senate, please visit this site.  You may be surprised at the linkages between public education in Arizona and some of these “teaching” groups.
Now you know why they seem to win, take a hint.  Does our side have these opportunites and shock troops for the values we ascribe to?  Yes, you too can apply for the open position with Planned Parenthood of Arizona, or register “new” voters.
What are we doing about it?  How much public funding do these groups receive?  Can they be cut from the public budget?  Are we funding progressive change?  “Yes we can!”