DeVos and Koch Funded Secret right-wing strategy to discredit teacher strikes revealed.

[kpete]

The Guardian

MANUAL PROVIDES ‘DOS AND DON’TS’ FOR HOW TO SMEAR THE STRIKES
TOP OF THE LIST: ‘TEACHER STRIKES HURT KIDS AND LOW-INCOME FAMILIES’
“A nationwide network of rightwing thinktanks is launching a PR counteroffensive against the teachers’ strikes that are sweeping the country, circulating a “messaging guide” for anti-union activists that portrays the walkouts as harmful to low-income parents and their children.

The new rightwing strategy to discredit the strikes that have erupted in protest against cuts in education funding and poor teacher pay is contained in a three-page document obtained by the Guardian. Titled “How to talk about teacher strikes”, it provides a “dos and don’ts” manual for how to smear the strikers.

Top of the list of talking points is the claim that “teacher strikes hurt kids and low-income families”. It advises anti-union campaigners to argue that “it’s unfortunate that teachers are protesting low wages by punishing other low-wage parents and their children.”

The “messaging guide” is the brainchild of the State Policy Network (SPN), an alliance of 66 rightwing “ideas factories” that span every state in the nation. SPN uses its $80m war chest – funded by billionaire super-donors such as the Koch brothers and the Walton Family Foundation that flows from the Walmart fortune – to coordinate conservative strategy across the country.

Another financial backer of SPN is the billionaire DeVos family of the Amway empire. Betsy DeVos is the current education secretary in the Trump administration.”


docs:





https://www.scribd.com/document/376203853/SPN-on-Teachers-Strikes
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/12/teacher-strikes-rightwing-secret-strategy-revealed
via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/12/1756528/-DeVos-and-Koch-Funded-Secret-right-wing-strategy-to-discredit-teacher-strikes-revealed

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Let the light shine in.

Must read.

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[bronxiteforever]

3. Koch bros hate public education. They want us dumbed down.

[LakeArenal]

15. Feudal lords always despise an educated work force.

[bronxiteforever]

17. You are so right!

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. So lower tax rates will magically fix everything?

That's what got those states in this mess to begin with, yet they keep playing this same old broken record.

[Ohiogal]

5. This is

exactly what Dipshit DeVos said a few days ago!

"It hurts the students .... teachers should serve the students ...."

Very chilling!

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[cyberswede]

6. oops..."teachers at choice schools are often paid less than district school teachers"

Don't you hate it when one way you want to screw the little guy ends up revealing ANOTHER way you want to screw the little guy?

[kimbutgar]

7. We have to get this memo to go viral and out to teachers.

[lancelyons]

8. State Pollicy network.. that has the look and feel of deep state propaganda.

Its scary how GOP will do dirty tricks and try to fake people out with misinformation to get the upper hand. Its almost like the GOP prefers a country like Russia and its authoritarian style with big shot GOP company owners as Oligarchs.

[Matthew28]

9. It is all

about making 90% of this country serfs for the super rich to work to death.

Education = competition for the elites.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. Are they responsible for starting the meme in Oklahoma

that the protesting "teachers" were crisis actors trucked in from Chicago (probably hired by George Soros)...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. That Soros character

He is just.....everywhere.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Looks like a "divide-and-conquer" strategy

And don't even get me started on their supposed "concern" low-income families and kids. What do they think we are, stupid?

[BoneyardDem]

13. Kids no longer buying any of the NRA bull, teachers shouldn't buy this bull either

These fuckers do not get to direct the narrative.

Given this info, it should be even easier for the teachers to stick to their guns, and keep up their own valid talking points. Don't even address the shit DeVos and Kock are trying to insert into the conversation, it's all just a distraction.

[geardaddy]

14. Starlee Coleman is with the Goldwater Institute, as well

https://goldwaterinstitute.org/team/starlee-coleman/

Katherine Bathgate is with something called School Forward: http://www.school-forward.com

[dhill926]

16. same playbook they always use....

shit is getting old...and I hope folks are catching on....

[calimary]

18. Okay, then where is OUR messaging guide???

[KPN]

19. Great fucking question (pardon my French).

Where's our message to put a big silver spike in this greed-based message effort created by billionaires who think:

1) they deserve everything they've got plus more, and

2) everyone else/we don't deserve what we want -- the ability to live a life that is not riddled and wracked with stress about how will we cover our rent/mortgage, medical bills, college bills, the cost of a reliable car; how will we be able to save enough to ever retire; how will we feed, cloth and otherwise care for our kids; etc., etc.

We need to fight these greedy arrogant bastards!

[world wide wally]

20. Sounds to me like the Secretary of Education is an anti-teacher activist.

What could possible be wrong with that?

[cynical_idealist]

21. the horror

wish i believed in hell so i knew they were going there

p.s. i love teachers

[disillusioned73]

22. k&R

Teachers & Nurses are gonna change this countries policies & priorities.. education & healthcare will no longer be a luxury, corporate welfare & the war machine need trimmed severely..