Building a Student Movement, Starting Today

[Hannah Bell]

It costs an estimated $1 million to deploy a soldier to Afghanistan for a year and $49,000 to incarcerate a prisoner for a year in California. The state of California spends less than $10,000 to educate one K-12 student each year. The tradeoff is clear and unjustifiable.

Participating in and organizing for the March 20 anti-war protest in San Francisco would be a good start to contesting these misplaced priorities.

Successfully connecting these issues will also mean building more deeply the links we have been making with the other sectors of public education beyond the University of California.

If you live in the Bay Area, bring yourselves and your friends to the Regional Mobilizing Conference that will be held at Laney Community College in Oakland on March 27. From there, we can coordinate and organize for the fight back that will, by necessity, be a long one.

All over the country, predictions are that the budget deficits will continue at the same destructive levels for many years if nothing changes. We can change that, but only collectively.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/05-0

[maryf]

1. K&R also DC protest on 3/20

more info later today...Thanks again, you are my hero!

[Hannah Bell]

2. that's sweet, but -- lol.

[maryf]

6. heroes come in all forms!!!

even laughing ones!! ;)

[maryf]

5. here's the info...

serves as a kick too!!

http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage

[Hannah Bell]

7. thanks mary --

On Saturday, March 20, 2010, there will be a massive National March & Rally in D.C. A day of action and outreach in Washington, D.C., will take place on Friday, March 19, preceding the Saturday march.

There will be coinciding mass marches on March 20 in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The national actions are initiated by a large number of organizations and prominent individuals. To see a list of the initiators, click this link.

We will march together to say “No Colonial-type Wars and Occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Haiti!" We will march together to say "No War or Sanctions Against Iran!” We will march together to say “No War for Empire Anywhere!”

Instead of war, we will demand funds so that every person can have a job, free and universal health care, decent schools, and affordable housing.

March 20 is the seventh anniversary of the criminal war of aggression launched by Bush and Cheney against Iraq. One million or more Iraqis have died. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have lost their lives or been maimed, and continue to suffer a whole host of enduring problems from this terrible war.

This is the time for united action. The slogans on banners may differ, but all those who carry them should be marching shoulder to shoulder. Click here to become an endorser.

Check out the new March 20th website: www.March20.org

[blindpig]

3. k&r

;>)

[ThomWV]

4. K&R

[leftstreet]

8. K&R

[Starry Messenger]

9. k & r