Michelle Malkin » Terrific: Tax-subsidized ACORN mob teams up with L.A. teachers

Terrific: Tax-subsidized ACORN mob teams up with L.A. teachers

By Michelle Malkin • March 11, 2009 05:24 AM

As if ACORN’s shakedown artists and thugs weren’t causing enough trouble, now they’re occupying public school board meeting rooms to prevent government educators from cutting costs, firing useless teachers, and dealing with financial realities.

This is now the second “civil disobedience” campaign waged by the entitlement-mongers.

Our Community Organizer-in-Chief, who spoke so voluminously yesterday about education reform, was unavailable for comment…

A school board meeting turned into a display of civil disobedience Tuesday as about 50 educators refused to leave, creating a brief standoff with police, who refused to make any arrests in the presence of media.

The members of ACORN and United Teachers Los Angeles — all wearing bright red shirts — entered the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education meeting on Tuesday afternoon, sat down and began chanting.

Police said the protesters were staging an illegal occupation of a public building. The district said no arrests would occur as long as members of media were in building.

UTLA President A.J. Duffy approached the speakers’ lectern and told the board, “You know why we’re here. You know I’m not leaving this rostrum. You know I’m going to keep talking.”

As he spoke several teachers sat on the floor in front of the board and held up signs saying “Students lose when we lose teachers, No layoffs” as the crowd began chanting.

Board President Monica Garcia repeatedly asked Duffy to sit down, but he kept speaking. The microphone was turned off, but Duffy continued to speak and the chanting continued. Garcia then announced that the “disturbance has interrupted our meeting to the point where the orderly conduct of this meeting is not feasible.”

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Say it with me: All hail ObamACORN!

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti

Posted in: ACORN Watch, Education

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#645891

On March 11th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, Southpaw said:

The difference between the red-shirts in the picture and the Nazi brown-shirts of the 1930s?

The red shirts are probably polyester.
#645912

On March 11th, 2009 at 3:11 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

The red shirts and flags of ACORN appear to be the same shade of red as
the red shirts and flags of the Communist Party USA.

A search for “ACORN” on the CPUSA site currently returns 10 results, including this gem:

The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections:
Build the Party, Build the Coalitions
…
Remember the president of NY NOW telling us she wanted to see lots of red flags at the March for Women’s Lives. And the chair of ACORN and Working Families Party who called upon us as family to make our contribution known. Did we respond? YES, we responded!

Got that? The chair of ACORN was the also the chair of the Working Families Party, and called on the Communist Party “as family”.

No wonder they seem to share an affinity for the same shade of red, and raised “clenched fists”.
#645913

On March 11th, 2009 at 3:11 pm, rightisright said:

What am I missing, no arrests as long as media is there? What the hell, no wonder we’ve lost our country.
#648386

On March 14th, 2009 at 1:57 am, torabora said:

As bad as the teachers can be, note that the administrators are even worse and don’t even teach.

I hope that there is a special place in Hell for ‘em.