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I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for all. I want to break the duality we get trapped in an the framing of issues, schools are something i am passionate about. The framing of the debate is those who want to privatize, crush the unions, measure education by a single metric at those who like the status quo. I reject that. I hate the status quo in Public Education but my answer is not to go in the direction of Corporate School reform. It is a short book, a punchy book, kind of a manifesto. You take it up on the door of the executioner.
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