March 4 protests coast to coast
Fund education, not banks & war
Published Feb 24, 2010 5:53 PM
On March 4 students and workers from all around the country will take action to defend education against increased privatization of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade schools, budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs and tuition increases at college and universities — especially the public institutions.
Workers and students have shouldered the brunt of the capitalist crisis, while bankers and corporations have been given hundreds of billions of dollars of public monies in order to be bailed out of a crisis that was made by the capitalist system, not the masses.
 Michigan State University students, workers rally and march on Feb. 3. WW photos: Bryan G. Pfeifer |
Young people in particular are faced with a grim future — one where well-paying jobs with benefits are becoming scarcer — and where the educational system is being increasingly privatized, teachers’ unions busted and curriculums dumbed down to prepare future generations for the current and emerging social order of worldwide competition for low-wage jobs.
Colleges and universities are getting further out of reach, and those who are able to attend must mortgage away their futures.
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It is the current political climate, on top of drastic measures being taken by state governments across the country, that helped give birth to the idea of having a national day of action to defend education.
California students and faculty, teachers and other workers first called for March 4 to be a statewide day of action
