A former federal official sent a screenshot of the original resolution to The Lion News. It reads:
“CEA believes that capitalism requires exploitation of children, public schools, land, labor, and, or resources and, therefore, the only way to [fully] address systemic racism (the school-to-prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy (gender and LGBTQ) disparities), education inequality, and income inequality is to dismantle capitalism and replace it with a new, equitable economic system.”
Beneath the resolution was an additional statement:
“We are constantly using band-aids and minor reforms to [make] things better, which is good, but the system itself is the problem, and [it] needs to be named.”
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Lauren Stephenson, director of communications at the CEA, belatedly admitted to the original resolution. She sent The Lion the revised form that passed the assembly.
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The CEA explained Stephenson’s delayed reaction, which stated it had “previously decided not to disclose the resolution, citing “process” and privacy concerns.
Fox News also reports the federal official was a CEA member who was unhappy about the resolution and walked out of the meeting disgusted because the revised resolution passed.
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A college history teacher, Bryan Lindstrom, introduced the resolution.
The revised resolution that passed reads:
“CEA believes that capitalism requires exploitation of children, public schools, land, labor, and [or] resources. Capitalism is in opposition to fully addressing systemic racism (the school-to-prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy (gender and LGBTQ disparities), education inequality, and income inequality.”
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After the resolution passed, Lindstrom tweeted, saying it “allows CEA members to publicly advocate and lobby for anti-capitalist policies at the CO Capitol."
The President of the National Education Association (NEA), Becky Pringle, said:
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“For us at the NEA, education justice must be about racial justice, it must be about social justice, it must be about climate justice. It must be about all of those things.” “For our students to be able to come to school ready to learn every day - We can never think of education as an isolated system because everything connects to our students’ ability to learn. So, we have to [necessarily] talk about housing justice, food inequality, and the reality that we all just went through a global pandemic together, and of course, it was the most marginalized communities that were already suffering from the inequities in every single social system in this country and every country.”
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