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DESCRIPTION:October 7th, 2010 – Day of Strike & Action\nUnder the guise of an 
 economic collapse, we see the public resources  that once supported us, and 
 the public spaces that once provided fertile  grounds for shelter and 
 inspiration degrade. Every level of public  education has been cut to the 
 bone, programs for the homeless and public  welfare have  been scaled back 
 in contradiction to escalating needs, and dozens of  basic necessities have 
 become difficult to obtain or too expensive to  afford—from finding 
 healthcare to transportation, jobs to housing.\nThe  managers of industry, 
 university administrators, and bank executives  have undercut our public 
 commons, imposed burdens on workers and gambled  away our future in a 
 thoughtless, last-ditch reaction to prop up a  failing system. The bailout 
 of banks, bloated managerial budgets and  salaries, and the privatization 
 of public schools are some of the  devastating initiatives they continue to 
 push; and so now, we’re  beginning to see the aftermath: high 
 foreclosures rates, lay-offs and  unreasonable tuition. What seemingly 
 began as an economic crisis, has  become a crisis of social values. Do we 
 stand by and accept their tired  policies, or do we refuse them and 
 reinvent ourselves?\nAs a  mosaic of communities that recoil from the 
 unbearable, we have the  ability to network and join together, not only to 
 fight off cuts and  injustices, but to recreate and sustain our future. In 
 the emergence of  the student movement, we’ve seen our creativity 
 flourish and the  formation of new ties and connections between commonly 
 separated groups.  We see our united strength, and we know that together we 
 can challenge  the false options between housing and the environment, 
 education and  prison reform, and the false division between workers and 
 students. We  reject any “solutions” that would maintain one community 
 at the expense  of other vulnerable populations.\nIn April, organizers 
 fighting  for education converged and called for a day of strike and action 
 on  October 7, 2010. In recognition of the increasing struggles we face  
 today, not only as students, but as teachers, parents, and workers, we  
 wish to broadly organize direct actions with a diversity of communities  
 who wish to be involved in this defense of education, in this struggle  to 
 take back our lives.\n\nTake this message to your friends, your  family, to 
 the union forums and to your coworkers, to your community  organizing 
 meetings and your allies struggling to reverse the erosion,  to students at 
 every level of education, to your teachers and your  tutors, to anyone who 
 ever opened a book and spoke to friends about  building a better world. 
 United we are a flood that sweeps away the  decay of defeatism, that brings 
 forth new seeds to instill a fighting  spirit and form new opportunities. 
 (via Facebook Event)\n(Endorsements and call available here)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/27/18656922.php
SUMMARY:Strike for Higher Education
LOCATION:Every School
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/27/18656922.php
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