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From: wcstrong@gmail.com<BR>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:09:33 -0400<BR>Subject: [DE] The Crisis of Public Education: Budget Cuts, Deficits, and the Lies Behind Them - National Funding Leaflet<BR>To: defend-education@googlegroups.com; sdsnationalwork@googlegroups.com; Ed4All@googlegroups.com; statewidecoordination@gmail.com; georgiasphe@gmail.com; march4ny@gmail.com; unmGET@gmail.com; jashvinad@hotmail.com; pcde@googlegroups.com; bftaylor@student.umass.edu; rothsch2@gmail.com; Manski@libertytreefdr.org<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>*FORWARD WIDELY*</B></DIV><B>DISTRIBUTE AT UPCOMING RALLIES!</B></DIV>
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<DIV>The Defend Education Group has assembled a leaflet to distribute at demonstrations in the next week. This leaflet addresses some of the basic funding issues/struggles we face on the federal level - Why are we paying for Wars and Bailouts when we need money for education and public services?! This one-page doubled sided leaflet addresses this issue. We can not accept things the way they are, we must demand No Cuts! No Concesssions!</DIV>
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<DIV>There is a space to put local contacts on the leaflet on the back side. We encourage people to distribute this at upcoming rallies tomorrow and April 4th, and any dates from here on out. This may be especially helpful for folks who are just starting to build something new. We are also going to release an organizer's toolkit soon, a new section of the website committed to collecting solid resources for new organizers to use.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.defendpubliceducation.org/sites/default/files/Leaflet%20(1).pdf" target=_blank><B>FULL GRAPHIC LEAFLET</B></A></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 19px"><A style="COLOR: rgb(20,102,52); FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: 100" href="http://shar.es/3BAwW" target=_blank>The Crisis of Public Education: Budget Cuts Deficits, and the Lies Behind Them. | Defend Public Education - Education for the People! </A><BR><FONT color=#333333 size=2>Source: <A style="COLOR: rgb(7,77,143)" href="http://defendpubliceducation.org/" target=_blank>defendpubliceducation.org</A> </FONT><BR><BR>PUBLIC EDUCATION AT A CROSS ROADS - INTRODUCTION While the country remains deep in recession, with official unemployment rates near 9% [i], and real unemployment over 20% [ii], , a campaign is underway to balance state and local budgets by slashing public education at all levels. These attacks are carried out under the baseless assumption that the money has simply disappeared. Instead of investing in education to get out of the great recession, massive cuts aim to gut the entire system.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="arial, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 19px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>Wes Strong<BR><A target=_blank>860 916 2761</A><BR>
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