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Sunday, November 6, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Occupy Wall St. on the attack on public education; & Santos Crespo asks, where's the money? #ows

NYC Public School Parents: Occupy Wall St. on the attack on public education; & Santos Crespo asks, where's the money?:

Occupy Wall St. on the attack on public education; & Santos Crespo asks, where's the money?

See this video from Occupy Wall St. about the attack on public education in NYC with testimony from laid-off DC37 school aide Cliftonia Johnson and investigative journalist Chris Hedges. For more on Ms. Johnson and some of the other nearly 700 school aides who were fired this year, and who performed valuable services to our kids, see this NYT article. The entire Occupy Wall St. session, a people's trial of Goldman Sachs, took place on Nov. 3 at Zuccotti Park, is here.

Also, see the letter that DC37 labor leader Santos Crespo sent to Mayor Bloomberg last week below, showing