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Parents, Teachers, Students UNITE!
Stand with those striking in Montreal and Chicago! Fight with those in Mexico, Chile, and all around the world! Join Education Bloc in NYC on S17! CALL TO ACTION =========== Brooklyn College Student Union, All in the Red, and others will be hosting an education bloc on September 17th in solidarity with the 1-year anniversary [...]
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Building a Freedom School
The Paul Robeson Freedom School is rounding out its first 8 weeks of life this week with a Graduation celebration + Benefit Show on Wednesday, Aug. 22nd. It’s been called everything from Liberation Camp to Free School to Camp Occupy (by the NY Times!), and this week it celebrates the summer of community-building and reaches [...]
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Why Paul Robeson Would Have Walked out of Paul Robeson High School on May 1st
We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand. -Paul Robeson I stand in the hallway of the school building, my back leaning against a wall and legs crossed. The halls are brightly lit and eerily quiet. Across from me is a typical school fire alarm, with [...]
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Take your Child to Real Life Day | A Form Letter for May 1st
Here’s a template letter explaining why your child ["Student"] won’t be in school this Tuesday! Feel free to use it, and then join us at Fort Greene Park for the May 1st HS Student WALKOUT Convergence! Dear School teachers and staff, Student won’t be in school on May 1 because she/he will be participating in [...]
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Paul Robeson Students Call for May 1st HS Student Walkout (UPDATED)
**See updates BELOW The student government at Paul Robeson HS have called for a city-wide HS Student Walkout on May 1st, in a video posted yesterday to youtube: Here’s the statement attached to the video: Join us on May 1st as we stand in solidarity with the Occupy movement and workers everywhere. FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:https://www.facebook.com/events/192822994163133/ [...]
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Occupy the DOE statement on February 9th School Closures Vote
Cross-posted from the NYCGA Community Relations Blog On February 9th at Brooklyn Tech High School, more than 2,000 parents, students and teachers voted “No Confidence” in the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP), a rubber-stamp for Michael Bloomberg’s undemocratic and racist system of mayoral control over New York City’s public schools. In complete indifference to the [...]
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We are building a coalition.
This is an email letter – does anybody call them “letters” anymore? – I wrote to the ODOE group this morning… Friends – I woke up this morning with MIC CHECKS still echoing in my head, my fingers twinkling and the palpable energy of last night’s meeting still sizzling inside me. We are coming together. [...]
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This is Why I Occupy
Far from the majestic columns of Wall Street, tucked between a bodega and an aged brownstone, sits Paul Robeson High School. A portly entrance towers over the single-family Brooklyn row houses that flank the fortress, a once-proud bastion of public education in an increasingly-downsized district. Mike Bloomberg reminisces about the days when he wrangled power away from [...]
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Occupy The PEP
IT’S TIME TO OCCUPY THE PEP THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 5:30PM Brooklyn Technical High School, 29 Fort Greene Pl (between Fulton and Dekalb) in Brooklyn Near the Nevins 2/3/4/5 or the Dekalb B/D/N/Q/R Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/104521729674642/ Background On Thursday, February 9th, the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) will hold an open meeting and then a vote to close [...]
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#OccupyTheDOE – Sunday, January 8
OCCUPY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION! The Fight for Quality Public Education for the 99% PARENTS! STUDENTS! TEACHERS! Join us Sunday, January 8, 2012 Are you in a school facing closure? Charter Co-Location? Or are you a parent, teacher, or student FRUSTRATED at the lack of democracy in NYC Public Education under mayoral control? Closing Schools has FAILED as [...]
