The War Report on Public Education, July 20, 2014
The War Report on Public Education with Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr. and special guest Dr. Doug Martin
With praise from Diane Ravitch, Susan Ohanian, Justin Oakley, and Phyllis Bush, Doug Martin's Hoosier School Heist details the corporate-theocratic assault on Indiana public education and focuses on the corruption, crony capitalism, scandals, and billionaires behind the scam to turn public schools into profit-making outfits. Speaking of Martin's research (which has been or will soon be used by or featured in the Washington Post Answer Sheet, ABC's Nightline, and the Associated Press), Douglas Storm says: "Doug Martin offers readers facts rather than just more opinions from one particular "side of the aisle," he follows the money, and he names names: from the Indy Pharm giant Eli Lilly, to politicians like Mitch Daniels and Tony Bennett, to the out in the open oligarchs at the Walton and Gates Foundations, and finally he names the lower level soldiers these groups plant on school boards and grant funding organizations and who write op-eds in local newspapers under the banner of independent "Policy Reviews." That is, Martin relentlessly exposes every evil practice and every evil act whether performed by politician or business person." Muncie Voice's Todd Smekens notes that "Doug Martin has shared plenty." A Walt Whitman scholar, poet, and musician, Martin now is a regular guest on many state and national radio shows.
The War Report on Public Education
The format of THE WAR REPORT ON PUBLIC EDUCATION explores one of the most important events in our life time - the total takeover of our educational system by corporate interests. This show is about the 'corporate' war on public education and the rising public resistance movement to the war. Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr. invites guests from all over who join the rising public resistance movement against the corporate greed taking on our public school system. He is interested in growing a grass-roots movement here in the United States and in Europe against the 'corporate interests' that are limiting both teachers and students everywhere.
This October 2015 he is taking his show on the road as he embarks on a very special project. His long awaited project ‘The People’s Story' is an effort to reach out to those individuals whose voices are not being heard in educational arenas everywhere. He will be interviewing, filming and collecting stories from parents, teachers, students and community members in the rural and urban areas of the Eastern United States to include Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington D.C. Many lives are being impacted and harmed by the ongoing corporate war on public education that exists today. The consequence of the rapid privatization of our schools is inhumane and devastating to our teachers, schools and most importantly, our children.
His primary mission is to create a documentary/television series for PBS and the Arts & Entertainment Channel that will expose the human cost of man’s inhumanity to man. The objective is to document people’s stories from each state and create a one hour TV Episode for that state evolving into a 30-35 part series. Dr. Miller expects to have the first TV show ready by next summer. This will propel the ‘corporate war on public education’ front and center as a local, state and national campaign issue. Determined to awaken the world on a national level by providing a series of programs that will lead to understanding the whole picture – he hopes to demand an end to the Corporate Elite and their destruction of public education.
Dr. Miller is seeking funding for ‘The People’s Story’ project from friends, family and the public to cover the expenses that this will entail. If you care about the future of education, please support this most important project and be part of history in the making. This has been and will continue to be Dr. Miller's dream to complete and certainly his life's legacy.
