Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery.  Saturday 05 May 2012 We Have Everything We Need Already: Community Control of EducationBeverly Bell, Other Worlds: "Shilpa Jain: My activism has always been defined by what's doable rather then what are we fighting against. What are the positive things we can create in the world, and how are they being created right now? I'm interested in supporting people where their passion is now, as well as trying to unearth their passions through a process of listening and dialogue. There are a thousand entry points to challenge this system and shape alternative possibilities." Read the Article Revealed: Full List of ALEC's Corporate Members Alex Seitz-Wald, ThinkProgress: "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been under fire lately after the 15 major corporations and organizations pulled their support for the conservative organization, which helps quietly implement corporate-backed legislation in statehouses across the country. Now, the watchdog advocacy group Common Cause has released a complete list of corporations on ALEC's task forces." Read the Article US-Afghan Pact Won't End War – Or Special Operations Forces Night Raids Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service News: "But the only substantive agreement reached between the U.S. and Afghanistan - well hidden in the agreements - has been to allow powerful U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to continue to carry out the unilateral night raids on private homes that are universally hated in the Pashtun zones of Afghanistan…. The Obama administration's success in obscuring those facts is the real story behind the ostensible story of the agreement." Read the Article Alexis Goldstein | Leaving Wall Street Alexis Goldstein, n+1: "Before I occupied Wall Street, Wall Street occupied me. What started as a summer internship led to a seven-year career. During my time on Wall Street, I changed from a curious college student full of hope for my future, into a cynical, bitter, depressed, and exhausted 'knowledge worker' who felt that everyone was out to screw me over…. And so I say to my friends who still dwell behind the Wall: come join us. The spoils of money can never match the joys of community. When you're ready, we'll be here." Read the Article Texas Amnesia James W. Russell, Truthout: "Out of the Southwest in the second half of the 19th century would come half of the United States' total mineral wealth … It is doubtful that without this windfall bonanza of wealth the United States would have been propelled in fifty short years to the first rank of world powers. It is also doubtful that if the area had remained a part of Mexico that the severe first world/third world inequality that exists between the two most populated countries of North America would be nearly as severe as it is today." Read the Article In Voting Sunday, Greece and France Are Expected to Reject Austerity Measures, Roiling Europe's Leaders Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers: "French and Greek leaders who backed the European Union's severe austerity measures are likely to take a drubbing when both countries hold national elections on Sunday, raising pressures on EU leaders to ease the tough fiscal constraints they adopted to head off the euro crisis." Read the Article ALEC's Top Five Anti-Environment "Model" Laws Stephen Lacey and Jessica Goad, ThinkProgress: "ALEC is a strong force working behind the scenes to stop any meaningful action on climate and clean energy. This is just a small snapshot of the pro-polluter bills the organization has crafted over the years. With the largest, dirtiest energy companies funding ALEC, it's clear who these 'model' laws are designed to help." Read the Article Anti-Choice Zealots Convene in Fargo, Hoping to Close State's Only Clinic Robin Marty, RH Reality Check: "On May 1st, a group of about 50 people gathered in Fargo, North Dakota. Their intent? To try and 'shut down' the only clinic in the state that provides pregnancy terminations, in the hopes to make it an 'abortion-free' state…. But although they are leading the States of Refuge movement, they are by no means the only group involved. And for some of those groups, their calls to action are just as intimidating." Read the Article May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: "Popular anger has grown over Wall Street impunity, huge tax breaks for the rich, unlimited spending in election campaigns, corporate destruction of the environment, and the widening gap between the falling wages of workers and the rising income of corporate executives. Therefore, it seems likely that the struggle for economic justice will heighten in coming years, with May Day continuing to serve as a potent symbol of worker discontent." Read the Article On Education, Santorum Flunks History Jeff Madrick, Next New Deal: "In recent remarks, Santorum praises home schooling, claiming that with the rise of factories, Americans had to go to formal schools that were like factories. Public school is an anachronism, he says. But formal schooling is about as American a virtue as there is. Has Santorum read any American history?" 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