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TAKING BACK OUR SCHOOLS MARCH AND RALLY

Taking Back Our Schools NYC March and Rally


NYC Metro
“Declaration, Protest, Successes, and Call to Action”

Calling
all NYC Metro Area community activists, the “voices of resistance”,
families, students, civil rights advocates, voters, immigrant families,
policymakers and legislators, union members, teachers, faith leaders,
and all communities that believe in a good public education for all!

Join
us in a march and rally seeking to create & sustain a public school
system that provides a fully funded, equitable, community-based
education for every child. This means that decisions about our
children’s schooling would be made democratically by families and
professional educators, free of corporate and political intervention.

Featuring a Message from Diane Ravitch
Speaking
will be: Mark Naison, Brian Jones, Carol Burris, Jeannette Deutermann,
Leonie Haimson, Joe Rella, Jose Vilson, NYC student “J”,  Marla
Kilfoyle, Melissa Tomlinson, Monty Neill, Dao Tran, Ken Mitchell, Daiyu Suzuki, Akinlabi Mackall, Muba Yarofulani, Rosie Frascella, Stephanie Rivera, Bianca Tanis,  Lisa Winter.

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Entertaining will be: Terry Moore and Friends, Raging Grannies, Jeremy Dudley, and The Rude Mechanical Orchesta.

Participating groups:

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