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DESCRIPTION:Green Sunday:  The Struggle Against School Closures \n \nThe Oakland 
 Unified School District board majority has again moved to close schools 
 this school year, with others looming in the near future.  As with other 
 rounds of such arbitrary action (most recently in 2019), the brunt of such 
 austerity measures is felt in flatland schools overwhelmingly populated by 
 black  and brown students.  \n \nThis presentation will review the history 
 of state takeovers of school districts in California over the last several 
 decades, especially in Oakland, and the current struggles against school 
 closures.\n \n* Mike Hutchinson is a long time education and community 
 activist in Oakland,  He is a founder of OPEN (Oakland Public Education 
 Network) and is currently a school board member for District 5 and a key 
 leader in the fight against school closures  \n \n* Hillary Chen is a 
 community and anti-racist activist involved in the Oakland Education 
 Association (OEA), East Bay DSA and Action 2020.  She is currently teaching 
 at Parker Elementary School in East Oakland, one of the schools targeted to 
 be closed this year.\n \n* Jack Gerson is a retired Oakland teacher who 
 writes on and analyzes  issues related to education, politics, public 
 health and the pandemic . Before retiring, he was on the executive board 
 and bargaining team of the Oakland teachers union (OEA). Among other 
 things, he helped organize OEA's campaign to bail out schools not banks and 
 end foreclosures, and the Occupy Oakland education committee's 18 day 
 occupation of Lakeview Elementary in 2012 to protest school 
 closures.\n\nGreen Sundays are a series of free public programs & 
 discussions on topics "du jour" sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda 
 County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/03/11/18848630.php
SUMMARY:The Struggle Against School Closures
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