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THIS WEEK'S KID PROTEST PROJECT EVENTS AT TWEED COURTHOUSE & CITY HALL:
Tuesday, June 24th - SEVEN CLASSES from the Brooklyn New School (PS 146)
delivered HUNDREDS of kids protest letters to Tweed Courthouse and to City
Hall, where they were greeted by their City Council Member, BILL DE
BLASIO.
Wednesday, June 25th – Students from Manhattan’s PS 84 will arrive at
Tweed at 4:00 to deliver their school’s protest letters along with a mock
check, mock pink slips, and mock keys to their school library. Due to the
budget cuts, PS 84 will have to lay off 4 teachers and shut down the
library. ***EVERY CLASS in the school has written letters or created
something for this protest!*** After delivering their letters at Tweed,
the kids will proceed to 250 Broadway, where they will distribute copies
of their letters outside the offices of the City Council members.
Thursday, June 26th – To mark the last day of the school year, students
and parents from three District Two elementary schools - PS 116, PS 234,
and PS 51 - will rally to protest overcrowding and budget cuts. They will
gather along the Broadway side of City Hall Park at 3:30 and hold a press
conference at 4:00 by the Broadway security gates.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
~James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
20th president of the United States
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