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Hear our Milwaukee teachers-No more poverty wages-mic check!
http://vimeo.com/112454291On Thursday, the school board met but would not allow public comment, so MTEA and supporters from the community took a direct action by doing a mic check.
What is telling is that School Board President Michael Bonds was more concerned about having these citizens removed from the room than hearing what they had to say.
Afterwards, Bonds called the citizens "rude and disruptive."
I'm sorry, but what is rude and disruptive is school officials refusing to listen to their employees and even worse, to the general public. They were elected to represent the public who voted for them. They were not elected to dictate to the people who voted for them.
This is the result of Act 10, which is nothing more than an effort to silence an entire section of the population and allowing petty tyrants to just go ahead and do what they want without rhyme or reason other than just because they can.
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