Socialist Action (US)

The monthly paper of Socialist Action, San Francisco, 1983–2010

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Socialist Action, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1990 · scan p. 2 · about 269 words

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it has gotten no better. The child named "rage" can be seen everywhere—from Northern Ireland to Palestine, from Panama to Romania, and right here in the USA.

In Palestine, the Israeli Army said it will begin impounding the property of parents whose children are throwing rocks at the hated Zionist army of occupation. The army is constrained from jailing children under 12 because of "appearances." So they punish their parents by destroying or confiscating their homes.

The army admits that stonethrowing by the thousands of children who wander Palestinian refugee camps and villages is spontaneous and beyond the control of parents. The rock throwers, mostly children under the age of 13, are full of rage because every day they live under the gun of Zionist occupiers who are jailing, beating, and killing their older brothers, sisters, and parents. The United States is the Scrooge which finances Zionist terror.

And what about the Tiny Tims of our own country, the home2 SOCIALIST AC: cial-education teacher with 10 years of service. Under a law known as the "School Reform Act of 1986," any New Mexico teacher can be fired if the school board believes it can hire another person with the "potential" of superior performance.

But Wahe's quality of work was never questioned. Yearly evaluations routinely commended her as a conscientious and dedicated teacher. As a matter of fact, the day she was officially notified that she had been fired, her peers named her "Instructor of the Year" at the Emergency Services Convention in Albuquerque.

Wahe was singled out because she was an outspoken advocate for ON JANU. ARY 1!

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