03.15.12
Gemini version available ♊︎American Protests Form Against the Gates Foundation
Teachers fight against walls and Gates
Summary: Citizens of the United States — not just people in the developing world — take it to the streets in protest against Bill Gates and his scheme
THE FOLLOWING new report [via metacode] shows that backlash against the Gates Foundation is growing and there are now protests as well. It is reassuring to see that people no longer take at face value everything the commercial media is spewing (because Gates is literally funding a lot of it). There is clearer understanding of what Gates is trying to achieve and how:
The chants of some 150 teachers, students, parents and Occupy Seattle activists reverberated off the windows of the global headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – a leading promoter of a corporate brand of education reform—announcing we were ready for our scheduled debate about the schools as part of a national call to “Occupy Education” on March 1st.
We’ll return to covering this another day. █