NORTH TULSA OKLAHOMA
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John Hairston
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WORK+EDUCATION
02 FEB 2026
WORK
ITALIAN DOCK WORKERS: MONEY FOR SCHOOLS NOT FOR WAR
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In October 2025, Union member Jack Hayman, reporting on Dock Worker strikes in Genoa, asked "where are the Union leaders protesting the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the United States?" We know the answer. Beginning with the Reagan presidency, political parties began weakening labor in favor of corporations that funded their campaigns.
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Tulsa Mayoral candidate, OK State Representative Monroe Nichols speaks at Protect TPS press conference.
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Oklahoma should be Dubai. Once the wealthiest place on the face of the Earth, we instead focused our energy on exclusion. That tendency repeated, repeated, repeated is now down to its lowest denominator as the state now proposes to begin gobbling up its own institutions.
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Listen to Oklahoma State Representative Monroe Nichols as he addresses the audience at a Protect TPS press confrence.
Are we Republicans, Democrats or Americans?
Tulsa Public Schools finds itself in a battle to survive this week not just because the State of Oklahoma wants to wrestle control from local school systems, following, as announced by its leadership, the playbook for education in Florida...there are dozens, probably a century of reasons Tulsa's education oversight is in peril now.
But, "now" is the key word.
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20 Tulsa area residents, parents, students, teachers, community members spoke at the final TPS Board of Education meeting before the State Board holds its referendum on the system's accreditation and, perhaps, as well, the future of TPS Superintendent, Tulsa Memorial graduate, Dr. Deborah Gist.
Walter's War on Tulsa, however, only leads to more questions of jurisdiction... possibly winning a battle, but losing the state.
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