Thu Mar 01 2012 at 02:00 pm
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March 1st is the National Day of Action for the Right to Education. Students, community members, teachers, and parents across the country will be mobilizing to say: Education is a right, not a privilege!
Morning: Local actions at schools and campuses throughout the city!
2pm: Manhattan Convergence @ NYC Department of Education (Tweed Court House, 52 Chambers Street)
March over Brooklyn Bridge – University and Bank actions in Downtown Brooklyn
4pm: Convergence and Rally Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn
Evening: Rally at the Panel for Educational Policy Meeting on school closures, Brooklyn Technical High School
For more info: http://www.occupyed.org/nyc
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US ON MARCH 1ST
We reject the agenda of the 1%, which has led to cuts in funding for public education, soaring student debt, school privatization and job insecurity.
Student loan debt in the United States is now around $1 trillion.
Tuition at public colleges and universities in New York is scheduled to rise $300 a year for the next five years.
Over the past decade, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Department of Education has closed more than 117 schools.
Only 13% of Black and Latino students in New York City graduate from high school prepared for college.
CALL TO ACTION: March 1st, 2012: National Day of Action For Education
We refuse to pay for the crisis created by the 1%. We refuse to accept the dismantling of our schools and universities, while the banks and corporations make record profits. We refuse to accept educational re-segregation, massive tuition increases, outrageous student debt, and increasing privatization and corporatization.
They got bailed out and we got sold out. But through nationally coordinated mass action we can and will turn back the tide of austerity.
We call on all students, teachers, workers, and parents from all levels of education —pre-K-12 through higher education in public and private institutions— and all Occupy assemblies, labor unions, and organizations of oppressed communities, to mobilize on March 1st, 2012 across the country to tell those in power: The resources exist for high-quality education for all. If we make the rich and the corporations pay we can reverse the budget cuts, tuition hikes, and attacks on job security, and fully fund public education and social services.
This is a call to work together, but it is up to each school and organization to determine what local and regional actions—such as strikes, walkouts, occupations, marches, etc.—they will take to say no to business as usual.
We have the momentum, the numbers, and the determination to win. Education is not for sale. Let’s take back our schools. Let’s make history.
