mayor bloomberg proclaims may 10 as Women in Jazz day.

[alocispepraluger102]

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Mayor-Bloomberg-Proclaims-May-10-Women-in-Jazz-Day-20130507?fb_action_ids=524976277537919&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%22524976277537919%22%3A243310352477256%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22524976277537919%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

"To celebrate the acclaimed documentary The Girls in the Band coming to Lincoln Center, Mayor Bloomberg has proclaimed Friday, May 10 "Women in Jazz Day." The date celebrates the legacies of female jazz musicians and marks the first in a weeklong series of screenings of The Girls in the Band at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center. Written, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin and produced and executive produced by Michael Greene, the film tells the stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists from the 1920s to the present day and chronicles their inspired journeys and struggles for recognition. Tickets for the screenings are on sale now at http://bit.ly/10tfvNn; please see below for complete screening schedule. More info on the film can be found at http://www.thegirlsintheband.com/home/

Read more about Mayor Bloomberg Proclaims May 10 'Women in Jazz Day' by broadwayworld.com"

[robertoart]

So how did it go?

[Chuck Nessa]

Mayor Bloomberg is a super rich fellow with his heart in the right place and nothing else but the power of his position and bank book.

[alocispepraluger102]

"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has issued a proclamation declaring Friday "Women in Jazz Day" — an attempt at cultural reform that's bound to enjoy the same resounding success as banning oversized sodas. Which is to say: Nice try, Mr. Mayor.

Women in jazz certainly deserve to be celebrated. But trying to persuade arbiters of the jazz canon to make room for women as a fundamental, integral part of our history? You'd have better luck extending term limits again."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2013/05/10/182885860/a-diy-guide-to-the-history-of-women-in-jazz

[sgcim]

What? You mean he's not going to be serving a fourth term?

[alocispepraluger102]

[sgcim]

Mayor Bloomberg is a super rich fellow with his heart in the right place and nothing else but the power of his position and bank book.

Bloomie might seem like he has his heart in the right place, because his PR machine is so extensive. He owns TV channels, a magazine, a news service, a financial terminal that every financial company has to rent monthly (if you do something he doesn't like, he simply won't let you rent it), and he's mayor of NYC. What gets out is what he wants to get out.

In the last election, the vote was split down the middle- 52% white vote for him, and 48% everyone else for Thompson, whom he smeared like he's doing to John Liu now.

Since he assumed mayoral control of the city's schools, I've been his employee for twelve years, and there's not one teacher I know that isn't praying for his term to end.

He's destroyed the education of an entire generation of children, so he can privatize the school system, and bring down the union. He's done this by closing down almost every HS in the city (now he's closing down all the elementary and middle schools), and re-opening them as charter schools that only admit the highest performing students.

The remaining public schools get the lowest performing students, and are composed largely of Special Ed. and ESL students.

I wonder which schools are going to perform better?

At my HS, we were graduating kids that weren't even ready for the tenth grade, not to say college, because he ordered principals to pass 80% of the students, regardless of their grades. If a teacher didn't comply with this, they would receive a "U" rating, and eventually get their license taken away. There were FIVE lawsuits by teachers against the principal of my HS at last count, even though they had to fire her because of incompetence, anyway.

You can ask any CUNY teacher, and they'll tell you that the percentage of NYC students that need remediatial classes is 80%, in the schools they can even get accepted by.

Even NYC residents know nothing about this (my niece works for him in the gov't, and she isn't aware of this), because he has contributed to every media outlet, and they're all beholden to him.

Sure, he's for gun control- he's probably afraid someone's going to shoot him!