How Occupy Wall Street is Also an Education Justice Movement « Parents Across America #OWS

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How Occupy Wall Street is Also an Education Justice Movement

by leoniehaimson

By Jason Langberg and Lewis Pitts

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has taken the country by storm. Tens of thousands of Americans are taking to the streets to protest corporate greed and government corruption. The People are sick and tired of capitalism destroying what’s left (after Citizens United) of our environment, our social safety nets, and our democracy. Indeed, there’s no corner of our country uncorrupted by the visible hands of moneyed elites and their puppets in government. Public education is no exception. It has undergone a corporate coup. That is why the OWS movement is also an education justice movement.

The OWS movement comes three decades after the beginning of what has, unfortunately,