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thepeoplesrecord:

Thousands at the Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin right now via

Sign the petition created by Trayvon’s parents to prosecute George Zimmerman. Reblog & spread. 

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occupyallstreets:

Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!

Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content.

Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels — fresh nutritious bagels — to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloomberg’s food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.

It’s the “no bagels for you” edict.

“I can’t give you something that’s a supplement to the food you already have? Sorry that’s wrong,” Richter said.

Richter has been collecting food from places like the Ohav Zedek synagogue and bringing it to homeless shelters for more than 20 years, but recently his donation, including a “cholent” or carrot stew, was turned away because the Bloomberg administration wants to monitor the salt, fat and fiber eaten by the homeless.

Richter said he was stunned. He said his family has eaten the same food forever and flourished.

“My father lived to 97; my grandfather lived to 97, and they all enjoyed it and somehow we’re being told that this is no good and I think there is a degree of management that becomes micromanagement and when you cross that line simply what you’re doing is wrong,” Richter said.

But Mayor Bloomberg, a salt-aholic himself, was unapologetic.

“For the things that we run because of all sorts of safety reasons, we just have a policy it is my understanding of not taking donations,” Bloomberg said.

Told that his administration recently enacted the policy, the mayor was Grinch-like.

“If they did in the past they shouldn’t have done it and we shouldn’t have accepted it,” Bloomberg said.

Richter said that over the years he’s delivered more than two tons of food to the homeless. He said Mayor Bloomberg is eating away at his ability to do good.

The ban on food donations was made by an inter-agency task force that includes the departments of Health and Homeless Services.

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Protesters still successfully taking the streets of lower Manhattan.

-via Timcast

Protesters have dismantled the barricades around Liberty Plaza.

via Timcast

autumndae:

Please come to the Visual & Critical Studies Senior Thesis Show at the School of Visual Arts! We’ve been working our asses off!

Here is the link to the Facebook Event.

Our poster was designed and hand printed by Jill Pucciarelli.

Reblogging myself again because OH MY FUCK OUR SHOW IS SO SOON.

Come see it. Thanks.

autumndae:

Please come to the Visual & Critical Studies Senior Thesis Show at the School of Visual Arts! We’ve been working our asses off!

Here is the link to the Facebook Event.

Our poster was designed and hand printed by Jill Pucciarelli.

Reblogging myself!

Please come see my art, and the art of my awesome peers!

PLEASE REBLOG!

kitchenknivesandcherrybombs:

stfuconservatives:

occupyallstreets:

Mayor Bloomberg: I Would Cut The Number Of Teachers In Half

Mayor Bloomberg was apparently full of interesting things to say while talking at MIT this week. Not only did he refer to the NYPD as “my own army but he also apparently expressed a very, shall we say, interesting view on how he would fix the city’s schools in a perfect world: “If I had the ability to just design the system and say ex cathedra this is what we’re going to do you would cut the number of teachers in half and weed out all the bad ones.”

The man who once disastrously hired magazine executive Cathie Black to run the city’s schools and has failed in his attempts at merit-based layoffs then went on to explain that ”double the class size with a better teacher is a good deal for the students.”

Full quote: “Education is very much, I’ve always thought, just like the real estate business. Real estate business, there are three things that matter: location, location, location is the old joke. Well in education, it is: quality of teacher, quality of teacher, quality of teacher. And I would—if I had the ability, which nobody does really, to just design a system and say, ‘ex cathedra, this is what we’re going to do,’ you would cut the number of teachers in half, but you would double the compensation of them, and you would weed out all the bad ones and just have good teachers. And double the class size with a better teacher is a good deal for the students.”

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Yes, teacher quality is important. You know how you improve teacher quality? Reducing class sizes (even the best teacher can’t keep a room of 40 little kids under control), increasing salaries to attract the best and brightest, oh and giving them some vague semblance of JOB SECURITY so that the best teachers will actually want to teach.

Fuck you, Bloomberg.

-Jess

oh fuck mayor bloomberg

he’s such a fucking jerk

Bloomberg, I fucking hate you. Yr city is revolting against you. You are not our mayor. 

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showerbeers:

99% spotlighted onto the Verizon building in NYC. 

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/99_projected_on.php

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