Maine teabagger GOP steals labor movement history poster from social studies classroom

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Everybody has probably heard by now that the Maine GOP has adopted a teabagger platform; it's been discussed previous times on this forum. During this process, the GOP did its caucusing at a Portland school. The Knox County delegation, the one that proposed the wackjob teabag platform, was given a social studies classroom that had a poster in it about the American labor movement. The teacher came back to his room afterward only to find his poster gone and a "Working People Vote Republican" sticker in its place.

The school has received complaints from Republicans about the free discussion of ideas.

Late Friday afternoon, as Maine's Republican State Convention fanned out from the Portland Expo to county caucuses at nearby King Middle School, GOP loyalists from Knox County found themselves directed to Classroom 110 – the domain of eighth-grade social studies teacher Paul Clifford.
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When he went home for the weekend on Friday, one of Clifford's most prized teaching tools – a collage-type poster depicting the history of the U.S. labor movement – was affixed to his classroom door. Clifford uses it each year to teach his students how to incorporate collages into their annual project on Norman Rockwell's historic "Four Freedoms" illustrations.

The poster includes this quote from the labor organizer and one-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs: "Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."
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Details are sketchy – as they often can be when political passion gives way to apparent criminal activity. But this much we know: When Clifford returned to school Monday morning, his cherished labor poster was gone.

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