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“In the history of history, wherever authoritarian, anti-democratic despots took over, they had a common strategy. “Donald Trump is pushing our beautiful, imperfect nation towards something that would break the hearts of our Founding Fathers and mothers, towards authoritarianism, towards despotism,” Garcia said. We want one who will not corrupt our institutions by giving friends and family gifts of government positions where their decisions benefit their personal and corporate wealth. We need a new president who will respect our democracy, who serves all the people, including the ones who don’t have a membership to Mar-a-Lago. She continued that the United States “must have a new president” and added: Garcia said the “ Red for Ed” movement, based on socialist principles, has “changed the narrative” and “is getting results.”
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“When women got the coffee, when people of color sat at the back of the bus, where LGBTQ people trembled in fear in those dark classes where they didn’t bother anybody.” “Because there are folks out there determined to take us back to a time when people knew their places,” she said.
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The power of this union and the collective voice of our 3 million educator members was on full display today at the #StrongPublicSchools 2020 Presidential Forum. Lily Eskelsen Garcia kicked off the nation’s largest teachers’ union’s Representative Assembly in Houston on July 4 by instructing her union members, “The moral arc of the universe needs us now to put our backs into Education Justice.”