{"id":975,"date":"2011-05-29T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtogoon.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T13:05:20","slug":"sad-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/29\/sad-and-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad and Bad news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some bad and sad news from Detroit &#8211; the Catherine Ferguson Academy which enables the majority of its teenage mothers(-to-be) students to aim for college education and a life after teen-motherhood, is threatened with closure.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-978\" href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/29\/sad-and-bad-news\/fightback-cfa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-978\" title=\"fightback-cfa\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fightback-cfa.jpg\" alt=\"fightback-cfa\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fightback-cfa.jpg 400w, https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fightback-cfa-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/04\/23\/6517421-more-about-the-catherine-ferguson-academy\" target=\"blank\">video piece on the Rachel Maddow blog<\/a> which goes further into the reasons why this closure (and others like it) is synonymous with the way in which basic tenets of democracy are being side-stepped when they prove a stumbling block for efficient power misuse (particularly in poor neighbourhoods), thus why Michigan is ground-zero for the politics of the USA today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/04\/23\/6517421-more-about-the-catherine-ferguson-academy\" target=\"blank\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-981\" href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/29\/sad-and-bad-news\/rachelmaddowshow\/\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-981\" title=\"rachelmaddowshow\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rachelmaddowshow-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"rachelmaddowshow\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlso a report from the school at the time of the student sit-in in <a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofdetroit.net\/?p=6582\" target=\"blank\">the Voice of Detroit independent news<\/a>.<br \/>\nDirect support is difficult from this side of the Atlantic, but here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/save-catherine-ferguson-academy-for-young-women\" target=\"blank\">petition to sign<\/a>, and those in possession of a credit card can donate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bamn.com\/1\/donate.asp\" target=\"blank\">By-Any-Means-Necessary<\/a> who are, among other things, providing the arrested teenaged girls with legal support.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bamn.com\/1\/donate.asp\" target=\"blank\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-990\" href=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/29\/sad-and-bad-news\/banner-bamnleft8\/\"target=blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-990\" title=\"banner-bamnleft8\" src=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/banner-bamnleft8-300x68.gif\" alt=\"banner-bamnleft8\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/banner-bamnleft8-300x68.gif 300w, https:\/\/howtogoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/banner-bamnleft8.gif 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some bad and sad news from Detroit &#8211; the Catherine Ferguson Academy which enables the majority of its teenage mothers(-to-be) students to aim for college education and a life after teen-motherhood, is threatened with closure. 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