“This has seriously been the most indescribable past 48 hours of my life.” | Fred Klonsky

“This has seriously been the most indescribable past 48 hours of my life.” | Fred Klonsky:

“This has seriously been the most indescribable past 48 hours of my life.”

by Fred Klonsky

I met Stephanie Rivera last summer in Washington, D.C. through our mutual friend, Adam Heenan. Stephanie came to Chicago from New Jersey this weekend to take part in the three days of protests against Rahm’s school closings, the largest mass closing of public schools in American history.
Visit her blog for the rest of the story of her visit to Chicago.

This has seriously been the most indescribable past 48 hours of my life. Chicago students, teachers, parents, & community organizers, it was empowering watching you all over the internet since September, but having the privilege to march alongside you, cause disruption, exchange “WTFs” when we heard an elementary school was put on lockdown & surrounded by cops so they couldn’t walkout to join the march, hugging our civil disobey-ers after they were released from arrests for occupying City Hall, and being in the heart of the education revolution with the most