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Saturday, February 11, 2017

All the Town Halls You Need to Protest At -- A Directory, with Dates, Times, Places, Street Addresses

Town Hall Meeting link and more in full post at Blue Republic blogpost, national view counterpart to this page.

Monday, January 16, 2017

NYC Area Protests -Anti-Trump and Other Issues As Well

Don't Mourn. Agitate, Educate, Organize! --Not just on January 20 and 21, but before and after. Anti-Trump issues and other issues:

(Click each listing for an event description. Find newer event announcements at NYPROTEST listserv archive:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/nyprotest)

Monday , Jan. 16
*de Blasio Step Down! rally: 1/16
*PROTEST MACY`S FUR: 1/16 P.
Met Council outreach: 1/16
Art As A Weapon Conf.: 1/16

Monday, Jan. 16
Printed Legacy of 70s Radical Left: from 1/16
*People`s Monday for Renisha McBride: 1/16

Tuesday, Jan. 17
*Protest Trump-Goldman Sachs gov`t: from 1/17 NYC
*Camp out at Goldman Sachs from Tues 1/17 NYC
Preserving Diversity and Inclusiveness: 1/17
Write to U.S.-held political prisoners: 1/17
CODEPINK NYC Gathering: 1/17

Wednesday, Jan. 18
*Protest, concert, campsite vs. inauguration: from 1/18 ?
Rick Wolff: 1/18, Brooklyn
Save CHARAS Community Ctr.: mtg 1/18
Fossil Fuel Divestment mtg.: 1/18
War Resisters League Mtg.: 1/18 WRL
Action Corps Happy Hour: 1/18
Re-purpose electronic waste: 1/18

Thursday, Jan. 19
National Women's Liberation Mtg.: Thurs 1/19
Community Garden Coal. mtg. 1/19
Food & Water Watch mtg.: 1/19 Food & Water Watch mtg. 1/19
History Making, Peoplehood & Right to the City: 1/19
Films, `Point of Attack` + `Profiled`: Thurs 1/19
Police Reform Organizing Project: 1/19
*Protests vs. FERC petro shill scam: 1/19 IN DC
Peace Ball: Thurs 1/19 in DC
Event for tolerance 1/19 BAYSHORE, NY

Friday, Jan. 20
*PROTEST TRUMP: 1/20 5:00 PM FOLEY SQ.
*Pro Trump event: 1/20 7:00 PM W.59th
*PROTEST INAUGURATION: 1/20 Trump FOLEY SQ
*Protest Trump-Goldman Sachs gov`t: thru 1/20 WEST ST.
*Staten Is. anti-inauguration rally or event: 1/20 PLS. CONFIRM
*Black, Brown & Indig. Mobilize vs. White Nationalism: 1/20 NYC
Inauguration Night w/ Randy Credico & Karaoke: 1/20
Black, Brown & Indig. action vs. White Nationalism: 1/20
*Socialist Feminist Contingent 1/20 inauguration protest
*March vs. White Supremacy: 1/20 (d12 Mvmt.) BROOKLYN
Anti-Inaugural Ball at Silent Barn: 1/20 BROOKLYN
Dr. Strangelove: from 1/20 at IFC
*March vs. Trump: 1/20 NEWARK
DC ACTIONS 1/20 incl. some duplicate listings…
Women`s Rights and Politics: 1/20 NR. DC
*Democratic Socialists of America inauguration plans: 1/20 DC
*PPA bus to DC, 1/20
The Anti-Inauguration: 1/20 talk DC
*Not My President: , 1/20 NOON, DC
*#DisruptJ20 protests at inauguration: 1/20 DC
*NYC bus to inauguration protests 1/20 IN DC
*J20Resist March: 1/20 IN DC
*Inauguration Day Protest: Friday 1/20 IN DC
*PROTEST TRUMP AGENDA: 1/20 IN DC
*Human Freedom, Animal Rights: 1/20 IN DC
*Occupy Inauguration: 1/20 IN DC

Saturday, Jan. 21
*WOMEN`S MARCH ON NYC: 1/21 11:00am UNION SQ
*Justice for Kyam Livingston 1/21, Brooklyn
*Women's March on NYC: 1/21 Women`s NYC: 1/21
*Actions vs. Trump? 1/21
*Socialist Feminist Contingents 1/21 women’s march
*North Manhattan Marches Against Trump: 1/21 (a.m.)
*Make Fascists Scared Again! Rally: 1/21, Queens
*NYC bus to Women`s March on DC: 1/21
*Democratic Socialists of America inauguration plans: 1/21 DC
*Women`s March on Washington: 1/21 W. 10:00am? DC

Sunday, Jan. 22
¡Pa`lante, Siempre Pa`lante! : 1/22 film
Recycle electronics: 1/22 on Lex. Av.
Challenging Trumpism, Wars & Militarism: AFSC Conf. 1/22 DC
Democratic Socialists of America inauguration plans: 1/22 DC

Monday, Jan. 23
CryptoParty 1/23 w/ Soc. of Environmental Journalists
The German Revolution: Mondays from 1/23
WeiMar. Germany: False Hope or Missed Chance? 1/23
Thanks for Fighting Racism! Dinner: 1/23
Nigeria LGBT equality struggle: 1/23 film, panel N.

Tuesday, Jan. 24
*Actions vs. Trump? 1/24
*LOBBY NYS TO END AIDS: 1/24 ALBANY

Wednesday, Jan. 25
Re-purpose electronic waste: 1/25
350NYC mtg. 1/25
SECRET PATH: Native film, talk, 1/25
Brooklyn Human Rights Film Fest: 1/25

Thursday, Jan. 26
*March 4 Affordable Housing 4 All Rally: 1/26 BROOKLYN
Finally Got the News: 1/26 Opening
Film, RIKERS: 1/26
New York Paid Leave Coalition dinner: 1/26
Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left: from 1/26
Heather Ann Thompson on Attica: 1/26
Navigating the New Normal: 1/26 at NYSEC
Brooklyn Human Rights Film Fest: 1/26
RIKERS: 1/26 film & panel

Friday, Jan. 27
*Demand No-Kill Shelters: sleepout 1/27
FUREE mtg.: 1/27

Saturday, Jan. 28
CryptoParty 1/28 at NYC Resistor
Art fundraiser for Standing Rock: 1/28
FUREE Leadership Training: 1/28
Urban Permaculture: All-Day Introduction 1/28

Sunday, Jan. 29
ACLU hockey fundraiser: 1/29
Theater of the Oppressed: 1/29 workshop

Monday, Jan. 30
Intro to Marxism: 1/30
Intro to Marxism: Mondays from 1/30

Tuesday, Jan. 31
Engels on forces of nature: from Tues 1/31
Health Care for All: 1/31 film, panel

Thursday, Feb. 2
African Lit - Colonialism, Liberation, Disillusionment: 2/2

Saturday, Feb. 4
African Amer. Cooperative Economics: 2/4 NEWARK

Saturday, February 4
*Protest & dabkeh vs. Batsheva Dance Co. 2/4 at BAM
Pamahikan: 2/4 film at CUNY (CLAGS)
FIDEL: The Legacy Continues - 2/4
Trans Identity and Body Horror: 2/4

Wednesday, Feb. 8
Divided in a Diverse City: 2/8
Eco Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, Indig. Resistance: from 2/8

Wednesday, February 8
Eco Imperialism, Settler Colonialism & Indig Resistance 2/8

Saturday, Feb. 11
*FUR PROTEST: 2/11
*MARCH AGAINST FUR: 2/11, Columbus Cir.
Permaculture Business Ideas: 2/11 at The Commons
After Marriage Equality in Ireland: 2/11

Thursday, February 16
2/16 Hortense Spillers: Women in the Time of Revolution W.

Saturday, Feb. 18
Conf. vs. NYC Fascism & Police Terror: 2/18
Audre Lorde B-Day: Thurs 2/18 (CLAGS)

Sunday, Feb. 19
Film, ``Hustlers Convention``: 2/19

Saturday, Feb. 25
Queer People of Color and NYC Gentrification: 2/25

Friday, Mar. 3
Beyond the Bars Conf. from 3/3

Tuesday, Mar. 7
*Quarterly ``No Separate Justice`` Vigil: 3/7

Saturday, Mar. 11
*9-day intercity walk to Indian Pt. f/ Fukushima Day events: 3/11
Fukushima, Indian Point , Pipeline: 3/11

Sunday, Mar. 18
BAYAN USA Assembly: 3/18

Friday, Mar. 24
*Remember Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: 3/24

Saturday Mar. 25
Conf. to normalize U.S. - Cuba relations: from 3/25

Sunday, Mar. 26
Conf. to normalize U.S. - Cuba relations: through 3/26
*National Rally to Support Palestine 3/26 DC

Thursday, Apr. 6
Becoming an Organizer: Narrative, Identity & Social Action, 4/6
Narrative, Identity and Social Action: 4/6 N.

Friday, Apr. 14
LGBTQ Scholars of Color Conf.: from 4/14

Thursday, Apr. 20
I N V I S I B I L I T Y conf.: Apr. 20

Friday, Apr. 21
I N V I S I B I L I T Y conf.: Apr. 21

Thursday, Apr. 27
White Privilege Conf.: from 4/27

Saturday, Apr. 29
*CLIMATE MARCH: 4/29 IN DC

Wednesday, May 3
Labor Film Activist Conf. from May 3
Radical Film Network Global Gathering: from 5/3

Friday, May 5
W. Workers Unite Film Fest from 5/5 NYC
MOVE Conf opens 5/5/2017 M. M. PHILA

Friday, Jun. 2
Left Forum opens Jun. 2

Saturday, Jun. 10
*Philadelphia Dyke March: 6/10

Saturday, Jun. 24
*March for Reparations: 6/24

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Sign the Petition: Terminate Comm. John King's Employment

New York State Board of Regents: Terminate the Employment of State Education Commissioner, John King

2. Petition by
  Coalition for Justice in Education

PETITION TO TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT OF NYS EDUCATION COMMISSIONER, JOHN KING
(references substantiating each charge available at www.coalitionforjusticeineducation.com)

John King has served as New York State Commissioner of Education since 2011. During his tenure, the quality of education in NY has continued to decline; particularly in poor and rural districts.

1 The Commissioner’s solutions rely upon blindly accepting NCLB, RTTT and Common Core policies and implementing more high-stakes, standardized testing for evaluation of students and teachers,

2 implementation of an untested national curriculum,

3 undemocratic corporate management strategies for operating schools,

4 more privatization of schools

5 and insistence that poverty-related conditions are not an excuse for low student achievement.

6 Furthermore, Commissioner King: · Refuses to lend credibility to staff and community-voiced concerns that much of Common Core curriculum and testing is developmentally inappropriate for students, and that NYS teachers received no significant training for the implementation of Common Core,

7 Refuses to allow meaningful dialogue about Common Core tests by imposing a “gag order” on teachers and administrators, preventing them from discussing test questions among themselves or with students,

8 Supports policy to allow private corporate vendors to have access to personal student data, without parental consent, for the purpose of marketing educational services,

9 and ·Remains silent on the stress-related suffering by many students taking recent Common Core tests,

10 Promotes the reduction of the reading of fiction in favor of an increase in informational texts (50% informational texts in elementary school, and 70% for 12th grade readings by 2014)

11 with the generally predicted impact of a further reduction in the joy of reading and learning for all students especially those with learning challenges,

12 Continues to advocate more high-stakes, standardized testing, despite research concluding that it is ineffective for motivating students and increasing their learning,

13· Continues to ignore positive research results for the use of performance-based assessment, such as portfolios, performances, presentations and exhibitions, by more NYS schools,

14· Advocates for more closings and privatization of low-performing schools,

15 despite research indicating that charter schools are generally less effective than public schools,

16 and promote more racial and class-based segregation,

17 and create negative impact on community morale, motivation and development,

18· Advocates the use of poorly designed, ineffective corporate strategies, such as APPR, which de-professionalize teaching,

19 We, the undersigned, strongly believe that New York State’s education reform agenda is fundamentally flawed and must be re-directed in a humanistic, research-based manner; directly counter to the direction Commissioner King has taken. New York State children, parents and teachers need an education commissioner who passionately supports and actively works for:
· De-concentrating the impact of poverty in classrooms and schools,
· Institutionalizing performance-based assessments,
· Ending the obsessive use of high-stakes, standardized testing,
· Developing creative, alternative curriculum, assessments and schools,
· Assisting poverty-stricken, low-performing schools through collaboration with teachers, parents community members and students, rather than through closures and privatization,
· Ending corporate reform,
· Using school practitioners and constructivist-oriented consultants for developing and implementing curriculum & assessments,
· Implementing a moratorium on the Common Core Curriculum,
· Transforming the NYSED to serve as helpful consultants to schools and school districts, rather than enforcers of top-down policies that are disrespectful to teachers and harmful to students.

Therefore, we, the undersigned respectfully urge the NYS Board of Regents to terminate the employment of John King as NYS Education Commissioner, and immediately search for, and hire a candidate who strongly reflects the characteristics described above.

Cent. NY English Teacher's Lament: 'I am a teacher, and I am tired'

By Savanna Kucerak, English teacher, Homer C.S.D., as published by NYSUT:

"I am a teacher, and I am tired"

Tired of coming home every night angry, abused, and insulted.

Tired of being treated as a child, as a robot, as a stepping stone for politician$ and publi$hing companie$ to make more money.

Tired of ignorance littering the air: “the Common Core is an exciting time in education!” or “APPR is just showing off the wonderful work you already do!”

Tired of being told to “wait it out,” that the “pendulum will swing the other way eventually” while witnessing the casualties pile up — casualties with names and dreams and futures and the RIGHT to the BEST EDUCATION we can give them.

Tired of being afraid to stand up for what I know is right for our kids and our country because I am afraid of losing my job and being unable to pay my bills.

Tired of my superiors being afraid to stand up for what they know is right for our kids and our country because they, too, are afraid of losing their livelihood.

Tired of wanting to be better, volunteering to do additional work, and watching helplessly as any progress I have made is brushed aside by the newest educational reform acronym.

Tired of being told, “Ohh, sorry, but my hands are tied,” accompanied by a half smile, a shrug of the shoulders.

Tired of spending hours of my life documenting and sorting and filing instead of revising and learning and improving.

Tired of wasting taxpayer money on binders and tabs and computer paper and ink.

Tired of being a taxpayer, watching as my money is spent on binders and tabs and computer paper and ink instead of STUDENTS and STUDENTS and STUDENTS and STUDENTS.

Tired of paying my student loan bills and nostalgically remembering that I chose to be a teacher, that I wanted to teach, blissfully ignorant of what lay ahead.

Tired of my two degrees and experience and individuality being ignored and devalued.

Tired of knowing what’s best for my students, but being told NOT to do it.

Tired of telling the best and brightest young people NOT to be teachers — and meaning it.

Tired of being told that if I love literature, then I’d better choose another profession.

Tired of Googling “what can I do besides teach?” only to close out of the browser every time, knowing there is nothing I’d be better at or love more than what was formerly known as “teaching.”

Tired of living in a country where my dream job no longer exists – where “teacher” is now synonymous with data-collector, test-prepper, script-reader, automaton.

Tired of grappling with the notion that I now have a job instead of a life or even a career.

Tired of disillusionment poisoning even the best of days.

Tired of telling my students that they will be heard if they support their arguments with evidence, yet knowing in my heart that that is a lie.

Tired of worrying about my own future children, who will either be numbers under this developing “educational” system – or dealing with the wreckage of a failed, expensive national tragedy in which all the best teachers have either abandoned this sinking ship or remain on board as empty shells, whispered voices, gasping for air.

I am tired, but I am still here – and there are many of me.

Join us. Say something. Do something.

Our collective future depends on it.”

S.I. parents chafing under the Common Core perversion of curriculum

The Common Core - that's that toxic result of ill-minded state and federal policy plus a tone-deaf collaborationist union leadership.

"My son made a comment to me the other day. He asked, 'Did I become stupid?'" said his father, James Hardison. "We're supposed to be inspiring students, and giving them what they need to be successful. For a 10-year-old child to feel discouraged like this, something is not right." --from SILive.com, 3/28/13, powered by the Staten Island Advance.

Culture of testing takes a toll on Staten Island pupils and their families (photos/video). [Ed.: It's not mere testing, it's testing to support the Common Core, foisted upon America by the unelected, non-educator, David Coleman.]

MORE -Our working conditions are our students' learning conditions

Check Out New Yorker's App on Inequality and the Subway

This cool app at the New Yorker's website, "Inequality and New York's Subway," takes each MTA subway/elevated line and matches stations with U.S. Census-provided household income.

The results are stark. Along the 6 train in the upper half of Manhattan, the results vary from over $150,000 to under $25,000.

New York City has a problem with income inequality. And it’s getting worse—the top of the spectrum is gaining and the bottom is losing. Along individual subway lines, earnings range from poverty to considerable wealth. The interactive infographic here charts these shifts, using data on median household income, from the U.S. Census Bureau, for census tracts with subway stations.