Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news roundup. Good to be with you. It's give the people what they want. Show number 131. It's June already. Almost at the middle of this year 2023. Great to be with you. Give the people what they want brought to you by People's Dispatch. That's Zoe and Prashant. I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. Great to be with you as always. Well, the first half of our show, going to be about really top level people going around the world and meeting each other. The second half of our show, lots of protests to tell you about protests all over the world. You know that we're good at bringing you stories of protests. The protests are not the only kind of politics that take place in the world. Gotta also look at people meeting each other, moving and advancing agendas at a higher level. Lula of Brazil. Miguel Diaz Canal of Cuba. Pope Francis. All of them in Europe. And in the middle of them all, Emmanuel Macron of France. Zoe, we don't often start in Europe, but take it away. You're exactly right. We don't often start in Europe, but right now, global leaders are meeting. This is the second day of their meeting as part of the Summit for New Global Financing Pact. And so this summit is essentially an attempt to follow up on the agreements that were made in the G20 summit in COP26. An initiative by our, I was going to say friend, but by Emmanuel Macron. And the stated objective is to find ways and means to increase financial solidarity with the South. So it's fitting that one of the leaders of the global south, one of the largest economies in the global south, Lula da Silva, and of course Miguel Diaz Canal, who's president of the G77 plus China is participating, are participating in this event. And it's interesting because both of them made extremely, extremely sharp interventions in this summit that's with this stated objective of having more solidarity with the global south. We know that for example, in COP26, in COP27, major agreements were made by global north countries who are the largest contributors to pollution, to climate devastation, major agreements on climate financing. Climate financing to essentially lessen the blow of the fact that the global north has destroyed the environment and it's having of course most of its impact in the global south with floods, with rising sea levels, with extreme temperatures which are affecting the people of the global south. And a lot of this climate financing has not actually advanced. Countries like the United States, EU member states have essentially refused to move this forward. And so this summit is called in this kind of framework in this context and Lula gave an extraordinary intervention as he tends to do. And he pointed out the fact that in this entire summit, which is discussing north and south relations, not once was the word inequality used. And he gave a very, very pointed intervention saying that how are we going to discuss the primary challenges and crises facing humanity if we're not talking about inequality? How are we going to solve this issue with the fact that the global north is disproportionately affecting the lives of the people of the masses of humanity if we're not talking about inequality? And so he says that in order for any advance to be made in terms of saving the planet, in terms of saving humanity, this must be addressed. Miguel Diaz Canel serving as the representative for most of humanity in this event, G77 plus China, that is accounting for the majority of the world's population. And he says we can no longer continue with the current international financial institutions that exist. Institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are actually not doing a service to the global south. These are institutions that are not advocating, that are not creating financial solidarity, which is what Emmanuel Macron wanted to promote in this meeting. And that especially countries like Cuba, countries like Zimbabwe, Iran, who are suffering under the weight of global sanctions, how can you even talk about financial solidarity if you're not actually addressing those issues. So very, very important scene. As we know, they've had several other bilateral meetings surrounding their trip to participate in the summit. Miguel Diaz Canel also was in Rome, also met with the very important leadership in Italy. He was in Serbia. So interesting time. They're both back on the world stage saying that the global south will not be quiet. These countries that the US has tried to subdue, especially Cuba, will not be quiet. They will make their own relationships and they will build and create the strength of the south to challenge the global north power in these spaces. Amazing things happening. Miguel Diaz Canel of Cuba setting the agenda for the G77 Lula right there beside him. Not sure if their moves are going to bear fruit, but my goodness, we're seeing interesting things happen in the world. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, another set of world leaders meeting each other, Prashant Narendra Modi of India, whose foreign minister has been saying, no, thank you to the NATO template. Nonetheless, Mr. Modi in Washington, meeting with Joe Biden of the United States. What's happening over there? Yes, quite a curious and much anticipated meeting, in fact, because for almost a year and a half, many people have been debating this question here. We've been hearing arguments as, is India moving away from the US after years of being a close ally? India resisted a lot of US pressure on the question of Ukraine. So there's been a lot of speculation about this. And of course, India buying a lot of Russian oil as well. So there was a lot of anticipation for the summit and I think the US went really all out to sort of, let's maybe, let's politely put it to accommodate Modi in terms of, say, having the carpet out for him. It is a state visit, only the third state visit of Biden's term. There was a usual White House meeting, state dinners. And it is really a lot of rhetoric about shared familial ties and this dance of democracies as they say. But I think it's kind of unmistakable that the key point of this whole debate was really China. And I think especially for the US, there is a strong, in the US there is a strong belief that India is integral to its policy of encircling China. We know that just before this meeting, Biden had very inexplicably called Xi Jinping a dictator and said that he had no clue of the balloon incident, which is a huge farce anywhere from the US side. So the meeting with the Modi-Biden meeting took place when this had happened. So I think for the US it is an attempt to sort of reach out to India, try to sort of bring it further into its ambit. Of course, this joint statement between the countries had the mention of the old, good old rules-based international order, as they say. There was the defense deals were finalized, some agreements and technology as well. Although, as always in these cases, the hype is much more than what is really happening. Interestingly, Modi also taking a question or two questions from reporters, which is very unique, considering he's never done a press conference. And he was asked about democracy and he gave a standard answer saying democracy is so amazing in India. And I think we'll leave it to the viewers to sort of make their own assumptions. But I think the larger picture globally is really this question as to how this partnership, the partnership between India and the United States is going to, as into what level the plans of the United States are really going to work out. I don't think it's going to be that simple because while some US observers have said that this is equal threat for both countries, it doesn't really seem that easy for India to sort of just take such a position. So I suspect India is also playing on both sides a bit, looking at its own strategic calculus and seeing that to what extent it can go and assign agreements with the United States and all that. But the real question is how much will it be drawn into this encirclement big question? And I don't think this trip provided a concrete answer for that. There were references, of course, to the Quad, to the I2U2. Last month, Modi had been part of the G7 meeting. But a lot of this also serves the purposes of domestic politicking as well. These are all, some of these foreign visits are definitely ways to gain votes as well. And I think it is a very delicate global situation that has happened with the Ukraine war. The fact that groups such as the SCO and BRICS are also now in the limelight. I don't think India is 100% putting its weight behind the US strategy as of now. But I'm pretty sure that the US will continue to pitch this. I think John Bolton came on a TV channel and made it very explicitly clear as well that this was what the game plan was. So it's definitely a situation, very much a situation in flux. But until then, I think important to note that people also took the streets, which kind of gets lost in the midst of all this high people protesting against the attacks on democracy, the targeting of journalists and activists, student leaders for instance. Definitely need to remember that as well. Prashant took the name of John Bolton on give the people what they want. I have to do a puja or burn incense or something to exorcise him from my imagination. Well, let's keep going with these elders as it were because we had the Pope, we had Lula, we had Miguel Diaz-Canal, we had Narendra Modi, we had Joe Biden. Let's not say the other Jain name from the United States. Well, the elders, an organization created by Nelson Mandela of South Africa in 2007. Mandela said, look, there are lots of state leaders, important political figures who even after their time in office served their time as presidents of countries, prime ministers, heads of international organizations. There were a lot more to contribute. So he created a group called the Elders, which is now chaired by my dear colleague, Mary Robinson, used to be president of Ireland, was a high chief in the United Nations. Deputy chair is Ban Ki-moon. Some of you may remember the South Korean politician who was the head of the United Nations. Well, Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson, the two leaders of this group called the Elders, made a trip to Palestine. They spent three days in Palestine and they released a very, very strong report and I really want to spend time and acknowledge firstly the fact that neither of them previously, particularly Ban Ki-moon, when he was at the head of the United Nations, ever made a strong statement about Israeli policy against the Palestinians. This statement from Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson must be looked at in the context of the fact that these are both high officials in the world system. These are people who have had a very important role in international organizations and what they say in their text which they released is there is ever growing evidence that the situation in Israel and Palestine meets the legal definition of apartheid. Ban Ki-moon, when he left said in his personal statement, I leave Israel and Palestine with a heavy heart. I have seen and heard compelling evidence of a one state reality with systematic impunity for violators of international law and human rights. My friends, I have not heard this kind of language from such high officials. In their statement, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, Ban Ki-moon, former head of the United Nations, have said that during their three days in Palestine and in Israel, they heard, quote, no detailed rebuttal of the evidence of apartheid, and they said that the behavior of the Israeli government, particularly in the occupied West Bank, showed an intent to pursue permanent annexation rather than temporary occupation based on Jewish supremacy. This is their language. They used this phrase that the government of Israel has demonstrated and here again is their line, an intent to pursue permanent annexation rather than temporary occupation based on Jewish supremacy. If we take the statement made by the elders seriously, then indeed Israel is in serious violation of international human rights law, and indeed if we take that one sentence where the word used, the phrase used is Jewish supremacy, and permanent annexation, not temporary occupation, if we take those words seriously, it is a war crime. Israeli government has committed, says the former president of Ireland and a high official of the United Nations and the previous UN secretary general, the two of them have essentially said that Israel is committing a war crime. Now what's very interesting is that this is not of course the first time the word apartheid has been used. The word apartheid has been used by the Economic Commission of West Asia about a decade ago, and last year I just wanted to read to you the title of Amnesty International's report from last year. Amnesty International's report from last February, February 2022 says, Israel's apartheid against Palestinians. Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity. You see, you've been listening to give the people what they want. First half of our show, we already come to you with a lot of interesting material. You might have read in the press out there about the visit of Lula to the Pope and the meetings in Europe. You might even have read a lot about Modi and Mr. Biden in the United States, but I doubt very much. There's been much coverage of the story of the elders and their report about the war crime committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people. We're halfway through our show, friends. We really hope that you enjoy it, that you listen online live or that you join us later and listen to the podcast. We rely on you to listen to us. We're going to move on now because in Ghana, a Ghana apartheid in Ghana, a place where Prashant has been on the ground reporting from several times, there is a cycle of protests. What is happening in Ghana, Prashant? Right. We have a very interesting protest that we've covered. We have a colleague therapy has written a story on it and we'll be having some great video footage from our friends from Pan-African television soon. This protest we just call a Don't Tax My Periods protest and it's interesting because a very significant issue in Ghana rarely reported outside. It comes at a time when actually activists and this movement, this protest was specifically led by the women's wing of the socialist movement of Ghana as well as very progressive organizations, all of whom coming to the streets to protest the fact that basically sanitary pads face quite an unbelievable tax actually in the country because it's the fact that they are classified as finished goods or in other words, basically luxury taxes. So apparently this necessity is classified as a finished good and therefore faces 15-20% import tax as well as another 12% of value added tax or bad. So in a country where which is already reeling from a financial crisis, we have a situation where according to some of the one of the activists from the socialist movement in Ghana who spoke at a panel discussion we have a situation where nearly 25% of some people's monthly income could go or just on buying sanitary pads because of these taxes and I think it sort of raises a larger question of menstrual hygiene as well about access which is often I think characterized as merely a women's issue or a private issue something to sort of be resolved somewhere secretly as opposed to a public health issue. And I think this is a focus of what the socialist movement of Ghana has been trying to sort of ensure through these discussions and this is you know, forget the stigma in the table, this is actually a public health issue and that was a key part of the protest and it was also a question of economy as well in the sense of women being so significant in what is being produced across the continent, across the world for that matter. But how their needs, how their essential products for them are taxed to such an extent and it's also significant because Ghana is going through, you know, this whole cycle of the international monetary fund, there have been all these discussions about that and once again, every time such discussions come up what gets affected first is public health resources for public health are what get cut the first hospitals education facilities, all of these get affected and I think the activists in this protest were trying to time and again raise this question that, you know, you cannot obscure issues like this and you know, just talk about macroeconomic issues and they were trying to link, I think, some of the most immediate needs of day-to-day life with some of these macroeconomic issues. So very significant protest in terms of an issue that is often really not talked about too much and for that matter not written about too much, we have heard far, far, far more about the four people who were in the submersible rather than you know, an issue of such significance what is really a big country, Ghana is one of the most significant countries in Africa, but the fact that, you know, the Ghanaian men and women were on the streets protesting for this is something that pretty much finds very little mention in the world media as well. So a very interesting protest and a very important and interesting protest and an important issue and I think we'll be trying to follow up the Ghanaian, the speaker of the parliament I think has been forced to issue a response, hopefully the government takes notice after measures like this, governments often get embarrassed sometimes into taking positions when the stark nature of inequality, when the stark nature of their policies is presented before them. So hopefully something happens. But very impressive protest by Ghanaian activists there. Well, protests in Ghana across the Atlantic protests in Argentina Zoe has written a terrific piece at the People's Dispatch website on the protests in the province of Huey. I don't want to belabor the point Zoe but since you wrote the piece and you know what's going on, why are cars burning in Huey? Well it's been a very interesting week in Argentina people of the province of Huey are on the streets that continue to be protesting, continue to be blocking highways, blocking streets, occupying plazas, directly rejecting the proposed and the past constitutional reforms by the governor, Gerardo Morales which yesterday it's rumored that he's going to be the vice presidential candidate for the elections later this year. That's an aside point and I'm sure we're going to get the Argentine elections in the coming shows. However, Gerardo Morales he is a figure in Argentine politics who has represented a very, very kind of hardline right wing position in many different moments and in Huey it's one of these provinces where you have many issues on the table. You have a large population of indigenous people. You have many, many key natural resources such as lithium which as we know is the most sought after natural resource today's globally. You have a lot of organizations a lot of people organized into trade unions and then you have this extremely regressive governor who has time and time again gone after social movements. We know the case of Milagrosala, she has been under the guise of his repression for the past several years she's been suffering under house arrest and consistently called out the leadership of Gerardo Morales and his role in her persecution and the people who had been on the streets because Gerardo Morales announced a week prior that he was considering implementing several constitutional reforms. I think there are about 60 modifications to different articles of the provincial constitution but two really stuck out for movements specifically indigenous movements and trade unions and social movements in the province and really nationally. These have to do with on one hand land and so this modification to the law of private property which essentially has given because the key point is that these constitutional reforms were passed this reform to private property law gives more power to property title holders and it says that essentially they have the power to evict those who don't have property titles and to in some way modify their private property holding in their ability to access it to enjoy it and to cultivate it. So this is seen by indigenous movements as a direct attack on their land rights as we know as what happened in much of the America's indigenous people were kicked off their land in many times given they did not have formal property titles and so many of these in many cases it's possible that a private landowner could actually have rights to property that's that's ancestrally part of this indigenous community where they have inhabited for decades for centuries and now with this reform these private landowners who just bought this property with no violating indigenous communities right to it will have the ability to kick them off. This has created a lot of anger from these communities that are in the midst of many different conflicts over resource extraction in the province and then the other major reform that's been met with a lot of rejection is the reform that essentially says that highway blockades and road blockades are prohibited and that whoever participates in one could face high legal consequences this of course in Argentina the country of road blockades the piqueteros I mean to ban this is essentially saying you can't protest this is saying you cannot go to the streets you cannot raise your demands you will face consequences and this again has been met by the human rights community in Argentina which is extremely active and engaged many many organizations have come out and said this is in violation of peoples constitutional rights this is in violation of the national constitution and so that's why we've seen I think there over 40 points of road blockades across the province largely organized by these indigenous rural and peasant communities in the cities there have been continuing strikes by trade unions by social movements in the capital Buenos Aires people have been protesting in solidarity but we've seen brutal repression a 17 year old lost his eye outside of the provincial legislator on Tuesday someone was hitting the head with a tear gas canister and is in critical condition in the hospital once again these patterns of repression are repeating we saw this in Peru we saw this in Colombia across the continent these right wing forces continue to respond to people's demands with violence and with repression Violence and repression yes indeed well but let's turn to the Sahel where you all know that I frequently report from there have traveled through there have an understanding of some of the countries and yet complicated mess of politics this week the government in Mali decided that it would hold a referendum now bear attention to the fact that there have been two coups in Mali one in 2021 in 2021 essentially to establish the sovereignty of the people of Mali against both the kind of intervention made by jihadi groups coming from Libya and from Algeria but also the Tuareg insurgency in the north as well as to establish sovereignty against the intervention of the French this is exactly what the government of Asimi Goyte did with the coup of 2021 now the government had promised that they would hold a referendum so that there could be a discussion how the elections would take place in March 2024 rebel groups in the north decided not only to boycott the group but to launch attacks against the AIGE or Mali's independent election management authority and the situation of this referendum has been really chaotic you know people are trying to use the fact that the government simply is unable to release results from this referendum as in a way to say that the government is just going to try to hold power undemocratically others are saying this is merely a sign of the continuing instability due to the violence in the north interestingly United Nations just released a report called firearms trafficking in the Sahel very very instructive my friends because when you read this report from the United Nations you learn how many people are making money selling arms small arms medium arms and heavy arms into the Sahel region you know wars don't take place simply because of animosity wars take place also because people are running guns into this region I have interviewed many many people who are arms dealers and it's very clear they will tell you that the biggest problem in parts of Africa are not animosities ancient animosities or recent animosities the biggest problem is the illegal arms trade this arms trade takes conflicts and makes them into wars where these conflicts might have a political solution the barrel of the gun becomes the first thing that one sees and indeed the insurgencies in the north intensified when there was a discussion about having an election in 2024 in March this is a serious issue for the people of Mali because I think there is in some regard an appetite for some kind of democratic government I say some kind because in fact whatever polls there are and it's very difficult to conduct polls in a country like Mali where almost half the country is held by various forms of insurgency but the half of the country where the government is sort of established its rule this government or Mr. Goethe is quite popular and so this government despite the fact that it came to power through the second coup a coup that followed a coup a coup that said that the previous government was not able to meet the demands of the people this government a coup government let's be quite clear let's not sugar coat it is nonetheless fairly popular people would like to see some sort of referendum some sort of election in fact it's likely that Mr. Goethe will run in some kind of election or his candidate will run meanwhile and not soon now on the 30th of June United States Security Council is going to meet to see whether they should extend the mandate for a UN security UN mission peacekeeping mission in Mali that mission was actually thrown out by Mali's foreign minister Abdulayad Diop who went to the Security Council and called for the termination of that mandate tough times in Mali but I must say it's not just about Mali it's about the Sahel where people are trying to establish the sovereignty and one part of that sovereignty is against the illegal arms trade which is not really discussed that much what a show you've been listening to give the people what they want brought to you by people's dispatch and globetrotter so happy to be with you we'll see you next week thanks a lot


My name is Musa, I'm from Gambia. My name is Robert, Robert Archer, and I'm originally from London. I met Musa for the first time when we went to a concert of African music, I think, and you had just arrived and you were about to go dancing all night, and I remember you. Talk a little bit about your village, because you grew up in a village. Yes, we do farming, so we don't have nothing. So unless we go abroad to find a job, at least we can help your family. That's why I came to Europe to help my family. And it's a long story about how you got to Europe. So from my country, we passed Senegal, Mali, Nizer, Burkina, Nizer, and Libya. So Libya, we came back to Algeria, Algeria, and we went to Morocco. Morocco, then I crossed to Spain. It's been a long journey. And a lot of it, you walked, right? Of course, we walked 17 days for 700 kilometers. So one time also we were in the desert, you know, we don't have no water. So for three days, three days, three nights, no water. So it was cold, you know, that helped us, if not everybody would die. And then when you got to Europe, you came across on the boat, and you survived because you want to survive. I survived, you know, thank God, you know, because I know only God can save me, those kind of place. I think you don't know until you're pushed right to the extreme of experience. You don't know what you're capable of.


to my channel, apples and tiaras. So today I'm going to be doing a video all about starting out the year with procedures and expectations. I'm going to be giving you guys a brief list of the procedures and expectations that I teach in the first weeks of school and then I'm going to go through a few of the ones that you guys posted on my Instagram. I asked you guys to list your top three policies, procedures, or expectations that you guys teach in the beginning of school and I'm actually going to be sharing a few of those with you guys. Something that's really important when you're teaching procedures and expectations just keep in mind that your students are not going to do them perfectly in the beginning and they're definitely not going to only need one day and one time to learn and practice them. You're going to need to teach them over time as well as practice them multiple times a day, multiple times a week until they have perfected them. Also keep in mind as a teacher over time your students are going to need refreshers and need to practice these expectations and procedures over and over again because they sometimes forget. I wanted to make this video to help all of the newer teachers out there. I remember being a new teacher and thinking on the first week of school what am I supposed to do? All about me Steph. Let's do some coloring. Art projects, you guys it's really important to teach and solidify your expectations and your procedures in the first week of school and make sure that you are consistent in making sure that those kids follow those procedures and expectations because if you're not consistent and hard in the first week of school you're going to lose them. So one of the ways I like to present my procedures and expectations is just through a presentation and this presentation isn't mostly for the students to be looking at. I mean yes it's aesthetically pleasing to them but it's mostly for me to organize my thoughts and kind of just go through the checklist. This PowerPoint is also organized to match the first three days of school. Basically it goes through all of the procedures and expectations in order that we would perform them in a normal school day. Obviously the first day of school we cover a lot of things that they are going to want to know slash need to know like what do I do if I need to go to the bathroom? Where can I find the tissue box? Things like that those are things that you're definitely going to want to cover in the first day of school and then they shouldn't need to be asking those questions again but if they you can refer back to oh I explained that on the first day of school. Also just a helpful tip don't try to teach every single procedure or expectation in the first day of school just nail down the really important ones. I'm going to explain that a little bit more in just a minute. So one of the very first procedures or expectations I like to teach is attention grabbers. These are our call to attention like class class yes yes these are the ones that you're going to use the first week the first few weeks I would stick to maybe like one or two just so that the students really memorize those attention grabbers and utilize them correctly. Throughout the year I definitely recommend you switching up the attention grabbers using the ones that work using the ones that the kids like and just creating new ones because it keeps it fun and exciting. The second most important procedure that I like to teach is entering the classroom or morning procedures. As you're planning these procedures it is important for you to sit down and think about your morning and what you expect from your students. Do you want them to come in talking? Do you want them to come in and read a book? Do you want them to come in and start morning work? What is it that you want your students to do in the morning? Make a list of all the steps you want them to follow and then teach those steps and then make them practice and practice and practice and practice. With entering the classroom you're obviously going to want to teach your attendance procedures. Do you just call their names and have them say here? Do you have them move the magnet? Do you have them click in on class dojo? How is it that you're taking attendance? You also want to consider that in your arrival or morning procedures. I also teach breakfast procedures in my classroom because at my new school we do have breakfast in the classroom so that is an added procedure for the morning that I need to teach and practice. Another super important one that kids always want to know right when they walk in the door what do I do if I need to go to the bathroom because you know they always want to just go to the bathroom all day. So you're definitely going to want to teach those bathroom procedures first thing on the first day. Another procedure I teach first day of school and throughout the entire year is lining up. There's two different ways that they line up. They line up in the classroom and they line up outside of the classroom. It's really important for you to practice both with your students. Find a time in the first day of school where you can take your students outside to practice where they line up after lunch, where they line up after recess, where they line up in the morning so that they can practice doing that correctly. You're also going to want to practice lining up inside the classroom and or inside the building. I don't know about you guys but I expect my students to line up in alphabetical order when they're inside the building or when they're coming inside the building. You're also going to want to talk about those expectations of when they're in line. Are they still? Are they silent? Are they straight? Are they smiling? That's a little 4s trick that I like to teach. I like to have a marching song with my students in line and if you guys have been watching my channel for a long time you guys know that we march to the imperial march. Darth Vader's theme song and my students really love walking in line to that and it really does help them stay in formation. Another procedure you're going to want to talk about is class numbers. I know that a lot of us label our things by number and we assign our students a number and they're supposed to memorize this number so you're going to want to talk about the importance of the number and when to use it and to respect other people's numbers and to make sure that they memorize them. You're also going to want to teach your behavior management system whether it's cards or sticks or class dojo or clip-up charts however it is that you manage your classroom behavior you're going to want to talk about that on the first day of school and then continue to talk about it throughout the first week. You're also going to want to talk about consequences and rewards. Whatever system you use in your classroom you definitely want to tell your students about on the first day of school. It kind of motivates them on the first day of school. Now I like to use class dojo and whole brain teaching scoreboards in conjunction with each other but I do not give or take away dojo points in the first week of school. I use that as kind of like a grace period. Another really important procedure that you need to talk about is getting up out of your seat. When is it appropriate to get up out of your seat?   For example if you get out of your seat should you be having a conversation with someone who's in their seat? No, no. Another really important procedure that I like to talk about on the first day is pencil sharpening and I talk about when it's okay to sharpen a pencil and when it's not okay to sharpen a pencil. Also you definitely want to have a conversation about pencil sharpeners. If you have an electronic pencil sharpener how hard to shove that pencil in there. What types of pencils not to shove in there? Color pencils, short pencils. Don't be doing that. You're also going to want to talk about class jobs, how to use supplies correctly and where they are stored. If you have cubbies and book bins your expectations for keeping those clean and organized. You're going to want to talk about class rules obviously. Now all of the class procedures that I just mentioned those are the ones that I formally talk about on the first day of school. They're really super important they need to know them first day so that they can implement them throughout the day through the second and third day and the rest of the school year. I also have a list here of procedures and expectations that you guys mentioned in my instagram. You're going to want to talk about your classroom library expectations, backpack expectations, what not to bring to school and what you should bring to school, homework expectations and procedures. If you have a homework folder, if you have a if you have some kind of like homework chart you're going to want to talk about homework expectations. You're going to want to talk about and practice your dismissal procedures and expectations which include packing up and cleaning up. You're going to want to talk about your lunch expectations and behavior expectations in the cafeteria. If you do whole group teaching on the carpet or on the floor you're going to want to talk about what they should be doing when they're there, how to sit correctly, what will happen if they don't sit correctly. You're going to want to practice practice practice your transitions, hallway expectations, active listening and of course safety drills. If you're using flexible seating in your classroom you're going to want to really really talk about those expectations and procedures. I also have on here the I'm done expectations and procedures. Some of these expectations and procedures don't really need to be covered on the first day of school especially if you're not using them. For example, I don't assign homework on the first days of school so I usually talk about my homework expectations on the second week before homework is assigned. Now the next couple of expectations are ones that I don't necessarily teach in the first week of school but I teach them eventually when we get to that. These are collaboration expectations, what it looks like to work with a group, what it looks like to talk with a partner and these expectations and procedures can be taught when that situation arises in the classroom. For example, if you're going to use a group steam activity in your first week of school you would definitely want to teach working as a team or collaborating before you give that assignment. You're also going to want to talk about turning assignments in, where to turn them in, what the assignment should have on the top of it, for example title name date if that's something that you require. Another really important procedure to teach is definitely centers behavior and expectations. This is where if you have a small group and you don't want your students to bother you you need to teach them not to bother you. If you have them transitioning from center to center to center you need to teach that as well. You can't expect your students to just know what you want. If your school has a PBIS system you need to teach that as well. If you do go noodles or brain breaks you need to teach your students the expectation of what they should be doing before and after those. You also need to talk about behavior in specials classes. If your school doesn't implement a behavior scale you need to think about coming up with one so that your students are accountable for their behavior in specials classes. Like I said the purpose of this video was to help any of you new teachers out there who are struggling with figuring out what to do in that first week of school. Personally I try not to include any hard content in the first three days and I just like to focus on classroom management, classroom procedures, classroom expectations, behavior, and community building. I hope this video was helpful and if you guys have any other expectations or procedures that you like to cover in the first weeks of school that I didn't mention comment them down below and I will approve them so that everybody can see. Some of the videos that I want to produce for you guys are actual explanations of the procedures and expectations that I have for my classroom so that you can have a little bit more insight. Also if you're interested in the t-shirt I'm wearing it says teaching with finesse you can get this t-shirt from lipsticklittles.com and if you use my code apples you can actually get 15% off of your order.


What I saw the photo of the Capitol Police crouching behind a desk. They'd used to barricade the door to the house chamber guns drawn insurrectionists clearly through the broken window Struggling to get in the room. I thought to myself that this will be the lingering image of this Insurrection this terrible event that beset our nation this week it'll be like the Iwo Jima picture or The girl running out of the napalm village in Vietnam the picture that we conjure in our minds when we think of these events Another photo though is haunting me from this past week in a different way It's a photo of the Insurrectionist who went into Nancy Pelosi's office and sat at her what he thought was her desk He clearly was making himself at home. His feet were up on the desk Looking at his cell phone. He claims that he left her a misogynist note and stole an envelope I'm reminded of the words by Hannah Arendt about the Nazis about the banality of evil an Opinion piece from Monica Hess in the Washington Post named the truth that this photo conveys She writes that the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol believed they were owed this opportunity to terrorize Their elected representatives. They were allowed They were the true guardians of democracy not the officials who voters had chosen for the job. I Read elsewhere that One of the chance that was used in the house by the Insurrectionists and in the in the Capitol was this is our house And they certainly acted as if they believed that Monica Hess concludes her column Lawmakers have rushed to explain that these people don't represent America Frankly, I don't think these people want to represent America a country full of immigrants and liberals and low-income people a Majority of whom voted to boot Trump out of Washington. They couldn't represent America if they tried. I Think they just want to act like they own the place That friends is the underlying Premisee of white supremacy White Americans own this country white Americans should be able to do what they want If enough non whites managed to vote in spite of voter suppression and carry the day Then it's time to storm the Capitol and overturn the vote in This viewpoint the Capitol belongs to white Nationalists not people of color or their white allies especially not black people as The presence of the Confederate flag so aptly illustrated Wednesday's insurrection and so much of what happened before was about Making the Capitol and our government the white's house Even if it's true that enslaved blacks Largely built the Capitol. This is an unvarnished picture of white entitlement Beneath the coded and uncoated language Trump and his enablers are trying to restore preserve and protect white entitlement That the Capitol was not ready for this onslaught in spite of Trump and others telegraphing that it was coming in spite of the the kid Glove treatment that was clearly in evidence of the rioters the insurrectionists What what we're seeing here is white privilege in action. It's white entitlement in action and It's embodiment is this guy acting like Speaker Pelosi's office is his living room Make America great again is at its core about white domination of public space and white ownership of the bodies of blacks Indigenous people and people of color Our unitarian Universalist principles and sources present a different view of our country in our world We believe in the inherent dignity and worth of all people and in the last few years We have moved toward an understanding that we cannot respect the inherent dignity and worth of all people if we don't prioritize black and brown lives When we fail and to prioritize black and brown lives, we become Accomplices to white supremacy. We've done this too much in our recent and distant past This is a painful moment of reckoning for we as Unitarian Universalists I've been talking a lot this year about widening the circle of concern the report of the Unitarian Universalist Association's Commission on institutional change it is an Impressive and consequential work and as I've said before I'm really delighted that our board of trustees is reading it Engaging with it as is our racial justice learning circle. In fact this very afternoon So one of the interesting things about widening the circle is its front and center assertion that we must dig into our theology and our spiritual practices if we are going to be able to widen our circle as Our uu faith got out of whack in the 20th century with an exaggerated Focus on individualism making an idol of individualism We ended up privatizing theology what I mean by this is we We kind of got to the point where where the sense in most uu congregations is that people ought to just sort of figure out What they believe on their own? Mostly anyway, and that developing beliefs as an individual sort of private action Not part of a communal effort privatizing Theological work and spiritual practice Deprives Unitarian Universalists of the company of others as we fashion our individual beliefs and practices and I think this is a really big loss. I Am part of a congregation Because my spiritual quest is enhanced immeasurable immeasurably by the questions The insights the wisdom and on occasion the challenges of my fellow travelers in the congregation If I'm on my own figuring out what I believe I have no accountability to anyone I have no help in thinking through the impact of my lives my my beliefs and how I Translate my beliefs into action. I Believe that we're better together That's why in addition to practicing my spirituality at home and in nature. I belong to a congregation It's why I believe so strongly in creating Opportunities here like the journey circles where we can explore and share in our spiritual journeys together It's why I started pub theology here, which sounds like kind of frivolous, but it's really anything but frivolous It's a chance to explore with others what we most deeply believe what we give our hearts to and how we practice our faith Widening the circle points out another problem of privatizing theology and spiritual practice in our congregations It's it's that we have a too thin theology then and a lack of regular spiritual practice And that makes it harder to sustain the work of justice over the long slow haul most of us need a liberating theology and regular spiritual practice to keep on keep it on with the justice work and a lack of these things facilitates burnout The Commission on institutional change recommends that we re-engage with our theological legacy And in order for our theology to become more liberating it furthermore recommends that we center the theology of black scholars indigenous scholars and people of color who are scholars both professional and lay and I'm excited about these recommendations. I believe that creating our Theologies and developing our spiritual practices should be at the center of our mission as a UU congregation this work is as important as the justice work and in fact Undergirds the justice work. I need to be clear that even as I lament the privatization of creating our own belief systems and practices that I'm not advocating for monolithic one-size-fits-all single theology Quite the contrary My vision of a UU congregation is that there are as many unique theological viewpoints as there are people in the congregation Our congregations should embody really wide theological pluralism in the key to having wide and deep theological pluralism is Making space for others If any of us acts like this is our house and only my way of seeing the world is allowed here Then we're acting like the guy in Speaker Pelosi's office. I Cringe when I hear Unitarian Universalists declare things like yeah, we don't believe in God here or we're not religious here in a truly pluralistic Unitarian Universalist congregation there will be folks who believe in God and folks who don't There will be folks who describe themselves as religious and those who don't Enforced oneness is an expression of white supremacy culture and it happens too often in our congregations It's part of why I think we remain overwhelmingly white in this increasingly diversifying country Rosemary Bray McNat who is the president of Star King School for the Ministry a Unitarian Universalist Seminary writes about a conversation that she had several years ago with Coretta Scott King Coretta King told Dr. McNat that she and her husband Martin had been tempted to join a Unitarian congregation But they realized that they would never be able to build a mass movement of black people as Unitarians McNat asserts that becoming Unitarian for them in the mid 20th century Would have meant a fatal separation from the sources of Dr. King's power a Faith in a suffering God who stood with suffering people despite their mistakes and failures and Covenantal love between himself and oppressed African Americans There simply was not space Created in Unitarianism in the mid 19th 1900s for someone to have that viewpoint McNat then asks some questions that shake me to the core Do we really understand that in pursuit of this goal of an anti-racist Unitarian Universalist Association? We are risking more than we realize Do we realize that we are risking being informed by varieties of religious Experience not entertained in our churches for decades if ever Are we prepared to accept that even among people of color at comfortable Economic levels as opposed to those poor uneducated people don't know any better than to praise God there may not only be a Theological but a cultural understanding of the divine that travels with them into our sanctuaries These are such good questions Too often blacks and other people of color have come into our sanctuaries and had members Implicitly and once in a while even explicitly say this is my house You're welcome to be part of it if you act and believe like I do if you can't do that Find somewhere else to go worship for me I Would love to be in a genuinely pluralistic Eventually multi-cultural congregation in which people see and maybe even hear the colors of the world in different ways Wouldn't it be amazing metaphorically to have a wide variety of Neil Harbison's the guy who did the Ted talk sharing how they see and hear and experience and understand the world in radically different ways This is how all of our theological imaginations could be unleashed stretched to the betterment of all and So let's find ways to invite and welcome in different kinds of folks Into this house of worship and let's embrace the understanding that as we do so this house that we love the way it is is Going to change and it's going to be a beautiful thing for all of us We have a unique opportunity as Unitarian Universalists to create houses of worship with an incredibly wide variety of people beliefs I Think our nation needs us to do this I think the world needs us to do it and I think we need us to do it May we do this good hard work


Live from San Francisco, celebrating 10 years of high-tech coverage, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2019, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Well good morning, welcome to day three of our coverage here on theCUBE of VMworld 2019, we're in Moscone Center North, here in San Francisco, kind of a, well not kind of it, it's a really cloudy day, but I kind of expect that we've been talking about clouds all week, right? Multi-hybrid public-private, you name it. We've been talking about it. John Walls of Dave Vellante, good to see you this morning. Good to see you John. Yep, we're joined now by a couple of executives from Kevin Arrio, Josh Epstein, who's a CMO and I'll DeVeed, who is the CTO of Kevin Arrio. Good morning gentlemen, good morning. Good to see you guys. Great to be here, great to be here. Yeah, first off, let's just talk about the show. I know you've got a presence down on the floor, just you're feeling about the traffic, the kind of traffic you're seeing at your booth, what the questions are coming from customers and maybe what those answers are. I don't want you to jump on that. So first of all, it's great to be back in San Francisco for this conference this year. You're here. Agreed, definitely. And I think it's very clear that definitely cloud is the name of the game and especially how do you implement a hybrid cloud? Customers are all on their cloud journey and the big question is how do I do that? How do I take these new technologies, the cloud containers and how do I take my applications and my data services to the next step? And it's kind of all over the place, all the sessions, all the customers are asking about this is where the focus is, where their interest is and it's great to be in the center of all of that. You made a big decision or big announcement about a month ago. You said, okay, public cloud, that's where we're going. Josh, the driver behind that and kind of what the early fall out. Sure, sure, no. I mean, we started our journey, really from the beginning of coming out. Coming out was about 10 years old, entered the data storage market as a traditional all flash storage array. The past 24 months, you've really pivoted that the business model towards first 100% software or got out of the appliance business, started really focusing our business on doing these large software-based implementations, moving into more subscription-based revenue, kind of delivering that cloud-based economics experience. And then over the last several months, we've been focusing on taking our core architecture, which fundamentally decouples the data services from underlying infrastructure. Think about how that might actually look on public cloud. Doing the same thing, kind of creating this sort of shared storage experience, delivering all the traditional enterprise-class data services, but sitting on public cloud infrastructure. It's been a really interesting journey. So let's double-click on that, because it's clear that this space is not about the media. It's about the business model, it's about the additional value that you can add for customers. So maybe you could add a little bit of color as to sort of how's that going, where you guys are differentiating in the marketplace, where you're winning. Sure, I mean, I think you're jumping in. Yeah, so I think it's, as you said, it's not about the media. It's all about how do you help customers have a uniform experience around any deployment model? So they want to deploy on-prem. They want to deploy in the cloud. They are actually seeking for a uniform way to do that without too much heavy lift. There's some challenges in going to the cloud. If you are not born in the cloud, you need to re-architect your applications. You need to kind of learn some new skills. And there's a big challenge, especially if you have big data-intensive applications. And that's where we focus, delivering that uniform experience around orchestration of resources and data services across your on-prem, off-prem, and public cloud implementation. So you guys decided not to ship a box anymore, you know, the Silicon Valley show, right? Where's the box? And so I'm interested in the technical challenges of doing that, but also the customer feedback. Because sometimes people want an appliance. So how are you able to transition through that and what's the feedback been?  So this is large SaaS providers, e-commerce platforms, FinTech, HealthTech, kind of these large, mature software companies, right? That their core business is delivering a cloud-scale application. And for them, you know, many of them were born kind of before the age of the public cloud. So they've actually heavily invested in application architectures that rely on enterprise-class shared storage. That said, they see the draw towards the cloud. They see the benefit of the cloud-like economics, subscription-based, consumption-based economics, and then the overall capability to scale up and scale out like the cloud does. But that said, they need that bridge from where they are today with traditional data-centric architectures to this cloud world. You mentioned FinTech, and there's an interesting case because when the cloud first really started to gain momentum, a lot of the financial services companies, the big guys, especially said, you know, we can build our own clouds. And then they realized, well, we can't build them as fast as Amazon can build them. And so they sort of pulled back in that, but then they sort of put their foot in the cloud and then went all, and then they said, wait a minute. So what are you seeing in terms of like the, call it the private cloud. You know, we've kind of swung back to that. Is that gap closing? Are they able to get close enough? The key part of that is obviously the pricing models and the pay-by-the-drink. I wonder if you could add some color to the sort of on-prem cloud business if we can call it that. Some people might object, but that's... Yeah, definitely. So the way we approach it is that we want to bring the simplicity, the agility, and the flexibility of the cloud model to this on-prem data center to deliver the same performance control of a dedicated resource, which is exactly what these type of FinTech customers are looking for. So in our basic architecture, which was already decoupled from hardware and already decoupled performance from capacity, we're able to do that in extremely flexibility. You can get the same flexibility of the cloud in an on-prem solution with all the benefits. And you can also decide on your own pace in your own terms what you actually need and make sense to run on a public cloud infrastructure. So scale is obviously a big deal for your customers. That's kind of been your focus since day one. What's the bell curve look like? Are we talking about scale in terms of just the ability to scale quickly, or is it also just the sheer size? And what does it look like? I think it's about performance at scale. It's about control or performance at scale. It's about control over availability at scale. And it's obviously about cost at scale, right? I mean, there's so many different ways to look at that the economics of public cloud versus on-prem. If you look at the pure dollars, clearly building on your own dedicated on-prem infrastructure is cheaper than paying Amazon or Google or whoever to do it. But there's clear benefits to kind of going in that direction in terms of agility, in terms of hands-off management, in terms of really just staffing expertise. But I think it does come down to control, right? And when you talk about scale, when you talk about petabyte scale, it's easy to lose control. And this is the benefit of shared storage models and this is where we think there's a real opportunity. Can I follow up on that? Because you said there's a clear benefit of, if I understood it correctly, of building out your on-prem infrastructure at some critical mass. There's obviously people that, like Andy Jassy would disagree with that. So what's your data showing? I presume it's weighted toward large customers. Absolutely. Maybe you could add some color to that.  Yeah, we've done some good research into good analysis on this. I think if you're talking about, we're talking about certainly over 500 terabytes to a petabyte to multi-petabyte scale, data-driven applications. We're talking about business critical applications, big block storage, heavy analytics. If you compare just raw economics, right? And the thing is there's a lot more than just the raw economics, but the raw economics of an infrastructure built on common RIO versus the equivalent infrastructure built on one of the block storage resources from one of the public clouds. It's about literally about one third the cost to build out that your own dedicated infrastructure, leveraging a good high-quality colo, good high-quality hardware underneath it. So raw economics, it's clear where that sits. Okay, so we're comparing the acquisition cost versus the sort of some N number of years, right? That's correct. Yeah, exactly. And not really going into the labor cost at that? Not going into the direct labor cost of managing the storage, yes. There's clearly interesting benefits to going to 100% cloud model. What that does to an organization when you kind of hands off, you don't have the same kind of in-house IT resources, you're outsourcing a lot of that. Well, except what Al was saying before is you're trying to bring that cloud model to the data. So to the extent that you can close that gap, then you can substantially mimic. We saw the opportunity to extend those capabilities into the public cloud. Delivering a high-performance storage solution in the cloud today is expensive. We focus over the years of taking these commodity components and comprising them into a high-performance shared storage solution. We can do the same in the cloud. We take it. But I think the key is multi-cloud, right? The key is that there's not one-size-fits-all and it really is about creating this mobility between your on-prem data and public cloud number one and then public cloud number two. One of the key concerns about moving a business-critical application to a public cloud is lock-in, right? And if you can create this infrastructure, you're decoupling that data-services stack that the application relies on from the underlying infrastructure. You get this mobility between clouds that becomes really attractive. So you're kind of answering that question. It was on my mind. I said, how are you selling that to customers? I mean, the fact that we're having this very robust discussion about this fundamental shift and you get it because you're kind of providing this service to your whole client base. But if I'm a client, am I head-starting to spin a little bit, right? And I've got big decisions to make. So how do you sell that that this is not a little shift. This is a fundamental way in the way you're going to do your business. So in the simplest form, we tell the customers that we significantly lower the barrier of entry into the cloud. You don't need to re-architect everything. You don't need to be worried about performance management or control or orchestrating resources. We do all that for you and we do that in the same way that we did it for you on your own on-prem data center. We can do it on any of the public cloud. So the barrier of entry, the risk of actually doing that transition. It's lowered significantly. And you can do that on your own base in your own terms and make some smart decisions later on about what needs to reside over time. So when we think about multi-cloud, we think about, okay, I'm going to have data on-prem. I might choose Azure for my collaborative workloads. I might put my dev stuff in AWS. I might put some analytics in Google, you know, whatever. My business is going to decide what to do. I'm not going to have this grand multi-cloud strategy. It's just kind of going to happen. And then I'm going to be, then IT is going to be called in to clean up the crime scene. But so what we're envisioning this architecture that's shipping metadata and maybe compute to the data versus moving data, do you agree with that or do you see it differently? We see, I think, two types of customers. Some behave just as you described but some have a very specific decision not to be locked into a single vendor. So they'll say, I'll put one business unit on Google Cloud and I'll put the other business unit on Azure. I'll put this certain type of applications on one cloud and the other type on the other cloud because I want to make sure that I am cloud agnostic. I'm actually mandating within an organization that I can run anywhere. As a hedge. As a hedge, as a definite hedge because they're concerned about locking to either of the vendors. And in that sense, they later on make the decision, okay, where is the kind of, where is the core of the data? Where is my mission critical data which always has some gravity and how do I make sure that it's in the right place at the right time? Doesn't that add complexity for the client? I mean, if they've got a workload here and here and here, it'd be a lot easier if it were all here or most of it were here. But that adds, I mean, I just said, I'm wondering if that- You're absolutely right. But what we see is this rapid shift towards this embracing the multi-cloud model. So let's just take an example. You know, you have a classic Cloud Scout application that might have an active act of data centers in two parts of the United States. Sort of serving up the production application. You have DevTest requirements, right? So they want the ability to rapidly spin up an environment to mimic a problem or reduce the development. Public Cloud's a great example for that. You have DR requirements. You have backup requirements. They want to be backing up. They want the ability to rapidly spin up an instance in a public cloud instance. And no matter what, in every organization somewhere, even in the most sophisticated IT organizations where they have tremendous control over the data centers, there are some C-level execs somewhere that says like, in five years, I'm 100% in public cloud. I want no, I want nothing, right? So you have to sort of service that as well. And what we're doing is it's saying, listen, you can continue to focus on building out a world-class next-generation data center, but at least on the NVMe, all NVMe fabric, and still have the ability to do certain things in the cloud and still have this path, if it makes sense for your organization, to migrate the entire thing to public cloud and not get locked in, to be able to sort of surf the clouds as it actually- So technically that means you have to speak Azure, API, S3, whatever language of the cloud. And so I'm trying to understand sort of, technically what you have to do and then where you add value, where you pick up from, whatever, VMware or whomever else is trying to be the control plane. So that is exactly the point, and to address the question about what the complexity of this multi-cloud world, this is exactly where we see the rise of this next-generation orchestration framework, either from VMware or from others, that strive to give you this uniform experience. So we deliver that at the data services layer. We connect that to the orchestration layer that allows you to do seamless workload mobility, seamless data mobility, to wherever it makes sense for that, those applications or business workloads to run. And basically the customers expect today that we encapsulate all that complexity for them. They want to be able to put their Google Amazon or Azure credentials and then forget exactly where it runs. And this is a lot of what's going on in the floor, right, this week. And that's exactly where we connect to the rest of that orchestration scene within the data center or the public cloud. So in that context, you primarily, I know you sell to a lot of different people, but is it the cloud architect or the architect that's actually determining that throughout the organization or is it, again, cleaning up the crime scene kind of thing? It's usually a customization with that CIO who's kind of on that cloud journey, building his cloud strategy. And even if he made it, the decision was made to in five years beyond the cloud. And as the question is, okay, what's happening in the meantime? How do I actually do that? One of the core things that's happening in the meantime is most of our customers is in this perpetual state of data center consolidation, right? Most of these large task companies, they're growing through acquisition, they've got nine DAF data centers, they all have a plan within two or three years to be consolidated on three next generation data centers and then have cloud mobility. And so what we're able to do, this is leveraging our software model as well. I say, listen, let's do an enterprise-wide kind of unified licensing scheme where you're paying on consumption based on actual data stored. And then you can build the underlying infrastructure wherever you want, right? You can base it on your traditional infrastructure you might already own. It might be on next generation NVMe, NVMe over fabric connected data centers. And then a piece of it now might be in the public cloud. So you're talking CIO, Dave, you're talking CSI. I'm just a little confused. Gentlemen, thanks for the time. We appreciate it. Great discussion and continued success downstairs and on down the road. Great to be here guys. Thank you. 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