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Entries by Saki Knafo from 05/2012

May Day Protests Show Occupy Wall Street, Liberal Establishment Bonds

Publication 05.01.2012
Suivre: Immigrants Rights, May Day, May Day Unions, Occupy Wall Street Unions, Transport Workers Union, May Day Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy-Wall-Street, Joan Donovan, May Day Coalition, Labor May Day, Video, Charles Jenkins Twu, May First Coalition, May 1st Coalition, May Day Community Groups, Valeria Treves, Occupy Wall Street, Michael Fink, Occupy Wall Street Community Groups, Occupy Wall Street Labor, Occupy, May Day Rallies, Unions, L'actualité

A little over six months ago, Stephanie McGuinness was camping out in Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of a new movement that often shunned politicians an...

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Bloomberg Budget Brawl: Children's Advocates Scramble To Save New York's State-Of-The-Art After-School System On Eve Of Massive Cuts

Publication 05.02.2012
Suivre: After School, Christine Quinn, Out-of-School Time, Child Poverty, Ost, Campaign for Children, Bloomberg Budget Proposal, Budget Cuts, Michael Bloomberg, Childcare, Bloomberg Budget, Afterschool, Early Childhood Education, The Children's Aid Society, New York Mayor Bloomberg, L'actualité

A coalition of more than 150 New York City groups, including the Children's Aid Society and the Police Athletic League, is making a last-ditch effort ...

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Bloomberg Budget: Slashed Children's Services Contribute To National Crisis, Advocates Say

Publication 05.03.2012
Suivre: Early Childcare, Ost, Mayor Bloomberg, Richard Buery, Pre-School, After-School, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Budget, Afterschool, Bloomberg Budget Cut, Child Poverty, Out-of-School Time, Nieer, United Neighborhood Houses, Campaign for Children, Children's Aid Society, Pre-K Funding, New York Budget Cuts, Pre-K, L'actualité

Teachers, parents and children's advocates across New York City shuddered Thursday morning as Mayor Michael Bloomberg released his executive budget: J...

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Late Maurice Sendak's Focus On Child Poverty Inspired Advocates

Publication 05.09.2012
Suivre: Literacy Poverty, Child Poverty, Brooklyn Libraries, Wild Things, Maurice Sendak Death, Sherry Shao, Carol Rasco, Brooklyn, Sendak Brooklyn, Maurice Sendak Dead, Where the Wild Things Are, Reading Is Fundamantal, Child Literacy, Maurice Sendak, Poverty Literacy, L'actualité

NEW YORK -- Before he made beautiful children's books that sold millions of copies, Maurice Sendak, who died yesterday at age 83, lived in Brooklyn, N...

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Gov. Bev Perdue's Budget Could Save Nation's Top State-Funded Early Childhood Program, Children's Advocates Say

Publication 05.11.2012
Suivre: Education News, Smart Start, Early Child Development, Preschool, Gov Bev Perdue, Bev Perdue, Pre-Kindergarten Program, Child Poverty, Steve Barnett, North Carolina Pre-K, Early Childhood, Children and Poverty, More at Four, Thom Tillis, Early Childhood Education, Pre-K, North Carolina, Alexandra Sirota, L'actualité

Children's advocates are applauding the latest state budget in North Carolina, hailing it as the latest victory in a long and drawn-out battle over th...

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Bloomberg's Budget Cuts And The After-School Crisis

Publication 05.18.2012
Suivre: Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Ost, Manhattan Schools, Bloomberg Budget Proposal, After-School, New York Education, New York City, New York Afterschool, Bloomberg, Out-of-School Time, Campaign for Children, After-School Programs, Childcare, City Council, New York Schools, University Settlement, Childcare Cuts, Michael Zissner, L'actualité

Some of the poems were about love and some were about clouds, but what really mattered about the P.S. 63 poetry reading on Wednesday night was the tim...

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Occupy Chicago Protestors Rally Against NATO

Publication 05.18.2012
Suivre: Occupy Nato, Occupy Chicago, Rahm Emanual, Video, Nato Summit 2012, Nato, Occupy Chicago May 2012, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, , 99solidarity.Net, Occupy, Suicide Girls, Nicole Powers, Nato Summit, Occupy Movement, L'actualité

Busloads of Occupy activists have been arriving in Chicago to protest the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "We're trying to bring ...

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Occupy Activists: Chicago NATO Summit Helped Revitalize Movement

Publication 05.21.2012
Suivre: Occupy Nato, Interoccupy, Occupy Chicago, Nato Summit 2012, Rahm Emanuel, Nato, Occupy Wall Street, Suicide Girls, Nato Summit, Nicole Powers, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, L'actualité

As Occupy activists from around the country begin heading home to their respective cities after a weekend of protests in Chicago, many say the massive...

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Kinship Care More Common, But Public Help Lags

Publication 05.23.2012
Suivre: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Adrian Charniak, Child Welfare System, Video, Grandparents Rights, Barack Obama Grandparents, Grandparents' Rights, Kinship, Multigenerational Families, Grandparents, Generations United, Foster Care, Kids Count, Kinship Care, L'actualité

Adrian Charniak's grandson was born with cocaine in his blood. That's the first reason the Illinois child welfare agency decided the boy's parents wer...

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CME Group Protests Lead To 15 Arrests In Chicago

Publication 05.23.2012
Suivre: Governor Pat Quinn, Cme, Home Care, Pat Quinn, Tax Breaks, Disability Servies, Ece, CME Group, Child Poverty, Cme Protests, Standup Chicago, Governor Quinn, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Early Childhood Education, Corporate Tax Breaks, L'actualité

Just days after thousands of protesters descended on Chicago to rally against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 15 people were arrested outside ...

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Bloomberg's Budget Cuts Could Cause Thousands Of New York City Parents To Quit Jobs: Survey

Publication 05.24.2012
Suivre: Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Out-of-School Time, Ost, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Campaign for Children, After-School, Achievement Gap, Bloomberg Budget, Afterschool, New York Schools, L'actualité

Thousands of New York City parents said they'd quit their jobs or leave their children home alone if they lost access to childcare and after-school pr...

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Police Retreat From Foreclosed Home In Minneapolis After Standoff With Occupy Protesters

Publication 05.25.2012
Suivre: Cruzy Family Raid, Minnesota, Cruz Family, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Foreclosure Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Eviction Protests, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy Homes, Cruz Family Minnesota, Ows, Foreclosure, Occupy, Foreclosure Protests, Occupy Minneapolis, #Occupywallstreet, L'actualité

On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protesters from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...

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U.S. Child Poverty Second Highest Among Developed Nations: Report

Publication 05.30.2012
Suivre: Poverty, United States, Global Motherhood, Unicef-Report-Card-10, Slideexpand, Breakdown, UNICEF USA, Child Poverty, UK Poverty, Video, United Kingdom Poverty, Poverty Gap, Thebreakdown, Romania, UNICEF Report, Gordon Alexander, Unicef, Canada Poverty, L'actualité

Can government spending lift poor children from poverty? A new report from UNICEF suggests it's possible. The latest edition of UNICEF's report on ...

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