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Sounding Off: Educating Bill Green on Local Control | WeArePCAPS

Sounding Off: Educating Bill Green on Local Control | WeArePCAPS: Sounding Off: Educating Bill Green on Local ControlPosted on September 20, 2014by wearepcapsby Ron WhitehorneIn an interview with the Inquirer’s Kristen Graham, Bill Green, dimisses the importance of a referendum on abolishing the SRC and returning our schools to local control. He also perpetuates the misunderstanding that state

by mike simpson / 9min

9-20-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement":“With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise”Parent are rightfully concerned about who will be controlling school data about their child (see The Best Posts On The inBloom Data Fiasco). The New York Times just published With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise, which gives a pretty good overview of the issue.2 by La

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9-20-14 All NEW Living in Dialogue

Home | Living in Dialogue:Yong Zhao Slays the Authoritarian Testing DragonBy Anthony Cody. For progress to occur in China – or the US, the dragons of educational authoritarianism must be slain. Chinese-American professor Yong Zhao has been a bit of a contrarian regarding education reform in the United States. He comes at the subject with a unique perspective. He experienced the Chinese educational

1 by mike simpson / 27min

9-20-14 Hemlock on the Rocks (The Big Gulp)

Hemlock on the Rocks: More on Deasy, LAUSD from Karen KlienHistory repeats itself: L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy and school board members are back to butting headsThis would be a difficult period for Supt. John Deasy and the Los Angeles Unified School District even if he and the school board were intent on working together for the benefit of students. But these aren't the most cooperative of times

1 by mike simpson / 30min

9-20-14 Wag The Dog Week

WagTheDog | Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ~ Rumi: Wag The Dog WeekCommon Core 2.0 or 2001 Education Odyssey?With the Common Core’s emphasis on data mining and data-driven instruction there is a misguided focus and emphasis on maximizing and standardizing student “learning outcomes” rather than inspiring and supporting stu

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9-20-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Love Letters to the BATS

With A Brooklyn Accent:A Short History of Anti-Immigrant Movements in the USThe first wave of anti-immigrant hysteria in the US took place before the Civil War and was directed at Irish Catholic immigrants. It led to the formation of the No Nothing Party and also sparked mob attacks on Catholic institutions in many northern citiesThe second wave of anti- immigrant hysteria took place after the Civ

1 by mike simpson / 35min

9-20-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week

Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekThe Fine, Reformy Whines of @ConorPWilliams & @campbell_brownAs Paul Krugman recently opined: when you can't win an argument on the merits, whine about "tone":I’m far from convinced by everything that gets done today in the name of education reform. But Rhee’s and Brown’s examples are indicative of a troubling pattern for reform opponents

1 by mike simpson / 37min

9-20-14 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION:Curmudgucation WeekEdPost Dials It Back, Still WhiffsOver the last forty-eight hours, the rapid responders from Education Post ran into a rapid response of their own. They decided to go after Carol Burris, and while various bloggers called them on their response out in the bloggosphere, Burris and many other responders descended upon the comments section, particularly for the post b

1 by mike simpson / 44min

9-20-14 This Week in LA - School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District):Deasy, Garcetti help kick off City Year in 25 LAUSD schoolsDeasy, Garcetti help kick off City Year in 25 LAUSD schools Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, helping kick off City Year in LA Unified schools. LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti were on hand today to help 288 C

1 by mike simpson / 46min

All Week @ The Answer Sheet 9-20-14

The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetClemson U. stops mandatory student survey with detailed sex questionsClemson University has said students do not now have to fill out a survey that had been mandatory and that included some highly detailed questions about sex, such as, “With how many people have you had sex (including oral) in the last 3 months?” The Greenville News reported that the sur

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9-20-14 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society All Week

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietyName droppingThe throat-slash sign? Really? It's a 15-yard penalty in the NFL.“It’s one more desperate attempt at trying to be relevant in places where he’s not relevant. You can’t look at a list of insults to certain parts of town — closing police stations, closing mental he

1 by mike simpson / 50min

9-20-14 Wait What? - All Week

Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekQuestions that teachers (parents, public school advocates and all voters) should be asking…Over the next week, the leadership of the Connecticut Education Association will be deciding whether to follow the lead of the American Federation of Teachers and endorse Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy, the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teache

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9-20-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumWest Seattle Schools Were on Shelter-in-PlaceFrom SPS Communications (tweeted 25 minutes ago):West Seattle schools were in shelter-in-place after dismissal because of shooting in the High Point. Parents can now pick up students.From comments at the West Seattle Blog:4:32 pm - All the fall athletes (soccer, cross country, swimming…) are

1 by mike simpson / 55min

9-20-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineGirls Prep Charter Takes Kids Not Picked Up on Time to Local Precinct, Threatens Parents with Administration of Childrens ServicesGirls Prep has figured out a way to start the school to prison pipeline in pre-k. Children first in the world of charters.4 by ed notes online / 21h On Democratic Centralism (Loyalty Oaths?) - From Trotsky to Shanker and Others(Albert Sha

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9-20-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherSwiffers. My days as a custodian.I just finished reading Ben’s Reader article about the janitorial scandal at CPS. It seems that to cut costs and make more profit, Aramark took away mops from custodians and gave them Swiffers. Mop

1 by mike simpson / 59min

9-20-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekCuomo's Memoir "Shelved" Indefinitely, Victim Of Moreland Mess, Cuomo MicromanagingGee, who didn't see this coming after the Moreland mess this summer:Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to launch his presidential bid with an inspiring autobiography — the way Barack Obama did with “Dreams of My Father” — has gone haywire, partly because the micromana

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9-20-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD

THE BECOMING RADICALEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by How We Raise Our Children: On “Because” and “In Spite Of”While I am disheartened by the cultural tolerance of all sorts of violence that remains in the U.S.—and then particularly in my home region, the South—I am deeply puzzled by a distinction between the public discussions surrounding the NFL’s twin s

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-20-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT Lausd Gets Approval For New Maywood CampusBy Arnold Adler, Los Angeles Wave Staff Writer | http://bit.ly/1AW8eJ9 Friday, September 19, 2014 1:55 pm :: MAYWOOD — Plans have been completed for the Los Angeles Unified School District's new South Region High School No. 8, to be built at 5800 King Ave. The school

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 9-20-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL LARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE WEEKIngenious Idea & Video: “The Dancing Traffic Light”6 by Larry Ferlazzo / 43min Infographic: “Inside the Brain of a Struggling Reader”Here’s an intriguing infographic: See the original infographic at http://www.scilearn.com/blog.12 by Larry Ferlazzo / 43min YESTERDAYThis Week’s “Round-

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This Week's Education Research Report 9-20-14 #edreform #EDCHAT #P2

Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTTalking to, reading to infants benefits their cognitive developmentThis study uses a nationally representative sample of 9-month-old infants and their families from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study to investigate if reading to infants is associated with higher scores on contemporaneous indicators of cognitive development independen

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9-20-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekAndre Agassi's New Passion: Corporate WelfareAndre Agassi is touring the country checking out the 27 charter schools he has built with real estate tycoon, Bobby Turner. Agassi says its all worth the effort to make his millions from taxpayer dollars just to see children so "engaged in learning," as they are below in the East Nashville Rocketship cha

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All Week 9-20-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE About the radio showJoin Drs. Shaun Johnson and Tim Slekar LIVE Sundays at 6PM EST and Wednesdays at 7PM EST on Blog Talk Radio for progressive, pro-public education talk radio. Call in to speak live with Tim and Shaun during the show, (805) 727-7111. You can also listen to our Monday "Sunday-Replay" at 7PM EST, and re-broadcasts of the archiv

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 9-20-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGPeter Goodman Predicts that Vergara East Will Be Tossed OutPeter Goodman, long-time observer of Néw York politics, predicts that local and state politics will play a large role in the anti-tenure case that was recently filed in Staten Island. Why Staten Island? It was chosen because it is the most conservative borough in

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Patrick Walsh Reviews A Chronicle of Echoes | deutsch29

Patrick Walsh Reviews A Chronicle of Echoes | deutsch29: Patrick Walsh Reviews A Chronicle of EchoesSeptember 19, 2014On September 19, 2014, New York teacher and United Federation of Teachers (UFT) chapter leader Patrick Walsh published the following review of my book, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who In the Implosion of American Public Education, on the online news site, Truthdig.Patrick Walsh, 2

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9-18-14 Jersey Jazzman - The Fine, Reformy Whines of @ConorPWilliams & @campbell_brown

Jersey Jazzman: The Fine, Reformy Whines of @ConorPWilliams & @campbell_brownAs Paul Krugman recently opined: when you can't win an argument on the merits, whine about "tone":I’m far from convinced by everything that gets done today in the name of education reform. But Rhee’s and Brown’s examples are indicative of a troubling pattern for reform opponents: anti-reformers are prone to

1 by mike simpson / 12h

NYC Educator: Where Are We Gonna Put Those Kids?

NYC Educator: Where Are We Gonna Put Those Kids?: Where Are We Gonna Put Those Kids?Mayor de Blasio, to his credit, has stated he'd get rid of the trailers. I envision getting a bunch of lawn chairs, a barbecue, a large party, and blowing them up. But, you know, we'd do it the safe way, like they do with outdated casinos in Vegas. They sort of implode. That's kind of anti-climactic, but there's no

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Hofmeister’s “Have-to”s Leave Even More Questions | Life at the Intersections

Hofmeister’s “Have-to”s Leave Even More Questions | Life at the Intersections: HOFMEISTER’S “HAVE-TO”S LEAVE EVEN MORE QUESTIONSSEPTEMBER 19, 2014 BRETT DICKERSONOklahoma Superintendent of Schools candidates L-John Cox – Dem, and R-Joy Hofmeister-Rep First, let’s acknowledge that those school A-F rankings that came out this week are bogus, and both candidates clearly say so.Second, let’s also ackn

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Using Students with Special Needs to Privatize Public Schools

Using Students with Special Needs to Privatize Public Schools: Using Students with Special Needs to Privatize Public SchoolsSEPTEMBER 19, 2014 BY NANCY BAILEY LEAVE A COMMENTEducation Week came out with an article pondering a serious question. How can you have special education charter schools and still call it inclusion? HERE.I wondered, were the school reformers going to do the following:Return

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9-19-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: A Short History of Anti-Immigrant Movements in the US

With A Brooklyn Accent: A Short History of Anti-Immigrant Movements in the USThe first wave of anti-immigrant hysteria in the US took place before the Civil War and was directed at Irish Catholic immigrants. It led to the formation of the No Nothing Party and also sparked mob attacks on Catholic institutions in many northern citiesThe second wave of anti- immigrant hysteria took place after the Ci

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Nite Cap 9-19-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT

James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPEgo, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform” - Salon.comEgo, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform” - Salon.com: Ego, money and false promise

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Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform” - Salon.com

Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform” - Salon.com: Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform”There's big money in education "reform," and now it's flowing to tech companies that want to disrupt public schoolsJEFF BRYANT When Michelle Rhee left the center stage of the movement

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9-19-14 All NEW Living in Dialogue - Yong Zhao Slays the Authoritarian Testing Dragon

Home - Living in Dialogue: Yong Zhao Slays the Authoritarian Testing DragonBy Anthony Cody. For progress to occur in China – or the US, the dragons of educational authoritarianism must be slain. Chinese-American professor Yong Zhao has been a bit of a contrarian regarding education reform in the United States. He comes at the subject with a unique perspective. He experienced the Chinese educationa

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International Benchmarking: State and National Education Performance Standards | American Institutes for Research

International Benchmarking: State and National Education Performance Standards | American Institutes for Research: International Benchmarking: State and National Education Performance StandardsGary PhillipsState performance standards represent how much the state expects the student to learn in order to be considered proficient in reading, mathematics, and science. This AIR report uses internationa

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2014’s Most and Least Educated Cities | WalletHub®

2014’s Most and Least Educated Cities | WalletHub®: 2014’s Most and Least Educated CitiesCall them what you will: the cream of the crop, the best and brightest, the intellectual elite. But it’s official; the college-educated third of Americans are society’s new upper crust. Research has shown that skilled workers who are also degree holders tend to pump the most money into their local economies ov

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Should Schools Be Responsible for Kids' Health? - The Atlantic

Should Schools Be Responsible for Kids' Health? - The Atlantic: Should Schools Be Responsible for Kids' Health?Educators have become the de facto enforcers of everything from nutrition standards to vaccinations and annual exams. But according to a recent poll, parents seem less than satisfied by the results. USDAgov/FlickrThere’s a section in the new Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll out this week that

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Marie Corfield: NEA President Lily Eskilsen Garcia has no time to be diplomatic – Part I

Marie Corfield: NEA President Lily Eskilsen Garcia has no time to be diplomatic – Part I: NEA President Lily Eskilsen Garcia has no time to be diplomatic – Part I"This is a test. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency..." Yea, you know the drill. More on this later...This is Ethan Rediske and his parents. Ethan is an 11-year old Florida boy who was born with cerebral p

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Universal School “Choice”: Schools Ultimately Do the Choosing | Cloaking Inequity

Universal School “Choice”: Schools Ultimately Do the Choosing | Cloaking Inequity: Universal School “Choice”: Schools Ultimately Do the ChoosingI have a question for you… Can you use your finger and identify Chile on a map? I only ask because there are lots of ideas and theories in the US educational policy discourse about schools choice and what would happen if we had a universal school “choice”

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2013-14 California High School Exit Exam Results - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)

2013-14 California High School Exit Exam Results - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Releases2013-14 California High School Exit Exam ResultsSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) rate for the Class of 2014 was 95.5 percent—matching the record high passage rate f

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Cali Education Headlines 9-19-14

Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team | CSIS – California School Information Services: Strong Mayor? Why? Part 3 — The California FixEducation HeadlinesRio looks to bond measure to improve crowded, aging schoolsVoters will be asked to weigh in on a $38.5 million bond measure in November designed to help the Rio School District deal with overcrowding and fix problems at its oldest schools.

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9-19-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Morning Read: LAUSD pays out to settle software vendor lawsuitMorning Read: LAUSD pays out to settle software vendor lawsuit L.A. Unified settles suit with student data software vendor The Los Angeles Unified School District paid $3.75 million Thursday to settle a lawsuit with the vendor of a software sys

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How to Own a Yacht: Collect Student Data and Sell It. | Missouri Education Watchdog

How to Own a Yacht: Collect Student Data and Sell It. | Missouri Education Watchdog: How to Own a Yacht: Collect Student Data and Sell It.inShareSelling personal student information from data mining can buy you a yacht. So what’s the problem?Here’s a nifty way to make a small fortune: Set up a service selling personal student information to colleges to use in their admission procedures or to estab

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Strong Mayor? Why? Part 3 — The California Fix

Strong Mayor? Why? Part 3 — The California Fix: Strong Mayor? Why? Part 3September 19, 2014Like every reform, the push in Sacramento to crown Kevin Johnson a “strong mayor” is an effort to change the rules of a political game. And like all such reforms, it comes wrapped in rhetoric about good government. But as we’ve seen in the lasttwo posts, reality doesn’t confirm the rhetoric. Council-manager

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Name dropping

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Name dropping:Name droppingThe throat-slash sign? Really? It's a 15-yard penalty in the NFL.“It’s one more desperate attempt at trying to be relevant in places where he’s not relevant. You can’t look at a list of insults to certain parts of town — closing police stations, closing mental health clinics, closing schools — and make it seem like this one act is gonna ch

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9-19-14 Curmudgucation - An Open Letter to My Alma Mater Re: TFA

CURMUDGUCATION: EdPost Flexes Rapid Response MusclesWell, it turns out that Education Post will be good for one thing. Its rapid response function (in which apparently a cadre of hired bloggists are ready to grab their keyboards from their mantles and launch like internet minutemen) will allow the rest of us to see when Pro-Public Education folks have scored a palpable hit.By that measure, Carol B

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9-19-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Friday Open ThreadWhat's going on this weekend? What happened this week that we missed?Now is the time and place to tell about it - Friday Open Thread.by Charlie Mas / 27min 9-18-14 Seattle Schools Community ForumSeattle Schools Community Forum: Student Data Privacy: Where's Your Line?From Marketplace:Meet the most measured, monitored and data-mined students in the

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9-19-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Researchers See What A Growth Mindset Does To The BrainMany of us teachers have seen the effect of helping our students develop a growth mindset — that their recognizing that effort trumps intelligence will result in success and better learning. You can read more about this idea, coming out of the work of Carol Dweck, at Th

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Federal audit dings Ohio over RTTT spending :: SI&A Cabinet Report

Federal audit dings Ohio over RTTT spending :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: SEPTEMBER 19, 2014Federal audit dings Ohio over RTTT spendingby Tom Chorneau(Ohio) In what may prove a cautionary tale in an era of federal flexibility, auditors from the U.S. Department of Education have called into question millions of dollars in spending by Ohio

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Morning Wink 9-19-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-19-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: A live-stream of the event will be available on Saturday, Oct. 11, starting at Noon Eastern time, (9 am Pacific time) at http://www.schoolhouselive.org.WE ARE MANY. THERE IS POWER IN OUR NUMBER

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