Defend Education NYC March 1 2012 Protest spending cuts Occupy

Filmed March 1, 2012. Students, teachers, parents, workers unite to protest cuts in education spending, and rising student debt. Beginning with a rally at the NYC Department of Education at Tweed Courthouse 52 chambers st, protesters marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Downtown Brooklyn for several actions and mic checks, and eventually to Fort Greene Park for a rally. Later all gathered in front of Brooklyn Tech HS to meet up with a community group from Southside Williamsburg Brooklyn who came to give a press conference and to boycott a NYC DOE Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) meeting being held at the school. The community group's main concern was the PEP would not listen to input from community groups who want basic self-determination as to the location of charter schools and co-locations of students. The video includes a puppet of an accountant with a head of the stock market pulling the strings of the heads of education institutions (goldstein moskowitz bloomberg wolcott). Another puppet, a mayor bloomberg costume pulling the strings of the PEP, made by high school students who additionally staged a die-in. Rev Billy gives a speech, several speakers and students mic checked, and the OWS Drum Circle supported. the police were there also and ready with orange mesh Info on PEP near the end of the video www.brooklynpaper.com gothamschools.org brooklyn.ny1.com extended footage of rev billy performing an exorcism on student debt www.youtube.com note: YOUTUBE FAILED TO <b>...</b>
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