Tuesday Showdowns on Muni and JROTCMarc Nortonbyline‚ May. 11‚ 2009Tuesday, May 12, may be a doubleheader victory for San Franciscans who believe in economic and social justice. When the Board of Supervisors meets that afternoon they are poised to overwhelmingly reject Muni's grotesque fare increases and service cuts. Then, in the evening, a closely-divided school board will vote on whether or not to restore JROTC, one of the Pentagon's favorite military recruitment programs. Both of these impending victories are the result of progressive victories at the polls last November. New supervisors David Chiu, Eric Mar, John Avalos and David Campos are at the heart of the opposition to Muni's "pay more for less" budget. All were fervently opposed by the downtown corporate elite -- and all were victorious despite being targeted by a campaign of slander and lies for their opposition to JROTC. Sandra Fewer's election to the school board, also part of the wave of progressive victories last fall, may have sealed JROTC's fate. |