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Blog Entries by Saki Knafo from 03/2012

Occupy Wall Street Spreads To Colleges With Protests Against Student Debt

Publication 03.01.2012
Suivre: Foreclosures, JP Morgan Chase, Interoccupy, Todd Gitlin, Nyu, Natalia Abrams, National Day of Action for Education, Student Debt, High Cost of Education, Daniel Jones, Student Loans, Cost of Education, Chic-Fil-A, Occupy Education, March 1 National Day of Action for Education, Occupy Wall Street, Colleges, Occupy, Slidepollajax, Occupy Colleges, Universities, L'actualité

Students from colleges and high schools around the country gathered Thursday for protests and rallies called the National Day of Action for Education....

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George Cleveland, Republican Rep, Claims No Extreme Poverty In North Carolina As Preschool Cuts Weighed

Publication 03.02.2012
Suivre: Smart Start, Extreme Poverty North Carolina, Gov Bev Perdue, Bev Perdue, Pre-Kindergarten Program, Child Poverty, North Carolina Pre-K, Children and Poverty, Early Childhood, More at Four, Extreme Poverty, Early Childhood Education, Pre-K, George Cleveland, North Carolina, L'actualité

There's no such thing as extreme poverty in North Carolina. At least that's what Rep. George Cleveland, a Republican in the state assembly, claimed Th...

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Mitt Romney Outside Waldorf Fundraiser

Publication 03.14.2012
Suivre: George Martinez, New York State Leadership Council, Job Cremator, Romney Fundraiser, Occupy Wall Street Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Corporate Personhood, Barack Obama, Occupy Movement, Romney, Mitt Romney Waldorf Astoria, Romney Mr 1 Percent, Mitt Romney Occupy Wall Street, Nydia Velazquez, Todd Shapiro, Aaron Black, Mitt Romney Fundraiser, Mr 1 Percent, Waldorf Astoria, DREAM Act, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Job Cremation, Justin Wedes, Occupy Ny, L'actualité

NEW YORK -- On Wednesday afternoon, about one hundred Occupy protesters gathered outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where former ...

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Occupy Wall Street's 6-Month Anniversary Observed By Leftists, Crashed By Protestors

Publication 03.17.2012
Suivre: Video, Occupy Wall Street Movement, The Left Forum, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, Occupy, Occupy March 17th, Occupy Movement, Occupy Six Month Anniversary, L'actualité

Exactly six months after the first protestors spread out their sleeping bags in an unloved little park in Lower Manhattan, sparking a movement that sw...

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Strand Bookstore Workers Fight For Better Contract

Publication 03.23.2012
Suivre: Strand Book Workers, Uaw, Workers, United Auto Workers, Labor Negotiations, Strand Book Store, Labor Dispute, Strand, New York, Strand Books, Strand Ny, The Strand, Labor History, Strand Bookstore Workers, Strand Bookstore, Labor Struggle, Union, L'actualité

Visitors to the Strand Book Store, a quirky bastion of the New York intellectual tradition on Broadway and 12th Street, may have noticed that the plac...

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Head Start Agencies Sue Over Obama's Recompetition Rules

Publication 03.28.2012
Suivre: Boston, Video, Department of Health and Human Services, Pre-School, President Barack Obama, Ohio, Head Start Recompetition, Obama Administration, Head Start, Early Childhood Education, Head Start Recompetition 2012, Pre-K, Education Funding, Early Head Start, L'actualité

Not long ago, Bob Ruseau, a stay-at-home dad who lives in Medford, Mass., ran into an old friend from the neighborhood who said she was surprised by h...

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Michael Bloomberg's Budget Proposal Elicits Protest From Campaign For Children

Publication 03.29.2012
Suivre: After School, Coalition for Children, Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Toxic Stress, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Children's Aid Society, Child Care, Mayor Bloomberg, Budget Cuts, Michael Bloomberg, Gregory Bender, Bloomberg Budget, Stephanie Gendell, Nancy Maxwell, New York Kids, New York Education, L'actualité

A coalition of more than 150 New York organizations, ranging from the Police Athletic League to the Children's Aid Society, have signed a letter urgin...

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