by Robert Fireovid
We know that some public school teachers in Vermont worked to organize student May Day protests.
Not coincidentally, May Day is the High Holy Day of Communists everywhere. How did public school teachers get involved with communism?
It starts with the teachers’ unions.
The National Education Association’s (NEA) is the largest teachers’ union in the country.
In 2019, delegates to the NEA’s annual Representative Assembly were presented with the following resolution: “NEA will re-dedicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America.” They voted against it. In other words, the teacher’s union voted to reject student learning as a priority.
Here’s what they voted for. “NEA will incorporate the concept of ‘White Fragility’ into NEA trainings/staff development, literature, and other existing communications … ” (Teaching “white fragility” has been approvingly described as calling attention to “white people’s paper-thin skin” and their “refus[al] to acknowledge their own participation in racist systems.”)“The NEA will call on the U.S. government to accept responsibility for the destabilization of Central American countries.” “NEA will collaborate and partner with organizations and individuals who are doing the work to push reparations … and to involve educators, students, and communities in the discussions around support for reparations.”
“The NEA vigorously opposes all attacks on the right to choose and stands on the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade.” “Mandat[e] that Ethnic Studies be taught in preK-12 schools in age-appropriate ways.” What led the teachers’ union to do this? The answer begins with a communist organization – the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – the organization that Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York came from. On its website, DSA posts a document entitled “Why Socialists Should Become Teachers.” This document instructs DSA members to join NEA and AFT (American Federation of Teachers – the second largest teachers’ union in the country) affiliates and to organize from within these unions and build “a militant minority of class-conscious teachers that can move our unions in a more militant and democratic direction.”
The DSA has infiltrated the teachers’ unions, and DSA members are teachers.
As a result, since 2015 the NEA and AFT steered almost $670 million of members’ dues and Political Action Committee (PAC) funds to leftwing political entities, far-left nonprofits, school board campaigns, and opponents to school choice legislation. Defending Education, a partner of SPEAK-VT, documented this funding by examining the mandatory Form LM-2 filings unions must file with the Department of Labor.
The Vermont chapter of the National Education Association is the largest union in Vermont.
Let that sink in.
Now let’s look at major colleges and universities in Vermont. The Sunrise Movement, which has documented ties to Antifa and anti-ICE cells, has chapters in Burlington and Middlebury – cities where Vermont’s largest institutions of higher education are located.
The Sunrise Movement’s training slides state the group’s “grand objective” plainly: to “structurally change the foundations of this country” in pursuit of “eco-socialism.”
Sunrise Movement’s Phase 1 goals include building toward “mass non-cooperation,” using May Day protests as an organizing tool, and targeting college campuses. Not surprisingly, there are Sunrise Movement chapters in Burlington and Middlebury.
Whereas our academic institutions should be places of higher learning, discovery, and robust debate around ideas and policies, that is NOT what the Sunrise Movement wants them to be.
So, the DSA is inside public teachers’ unions; and the Sunrise Movement targets college campuses. While these two organizations do not share a command structure, they share a common objective… The overthrow of both our national and state governments, i.e., our Constitutions. This is not hyperbole or some conspiracy theory; this is what they say.
Vermont has its own anti-American organization that recruits students for anti-American activities – the Education Justice Coalition of Vermont – and its web site lists teachers as one of its core member groups. The Education Justice Coalition is organizing a “May Day Solidarity March” in Williston this Friday.
So, now you know the connection between Vermont public school teachers and communism’s High Holy Day – May Day.
The author is a Grand Isle farmer and is affiliated with Vermont Stands Up.