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S.F. STUDENTS PROTEST SCHOOL CUTBACKS: Over 500 students, teachers and parents demonstrated in San Francisco, Calif., on May 15, to protest lay-offs of teachers and elimination of sports, art and other programs from the city's school system. As in New York, San Francisco workers are bearing the brunt of a so-called 'budget crisis.?
If you like this newspaper14 SOCIALIST ACTION JUNE 1991 abolished every city drug treatment program?
Nor will these police have anything to do with any "war on crime." How could they possibly, when in the same breath Dinkins slashed funds for schools, housing, health care, parks, and libraries? This virtually writes off another generation of minority youth to New York's only growth industry-the prisons.
Protests are planned
But the working people of New York City--and especially their children—are not taking these cutbacks sitting down.
Clearly inspired by the recent student occupations of 12 City College Campuses, the Save Our Schools Coalitions is calling for a one-day hoycott by parents, teachers, and students in District 15 in Brooklyn.
Healthcare coalitions in neighborhoods throughout the city are protesting the closing of the city-funded outpatient pharmacies. It was there that those without health insurance-usually the working poor—could count on filling their prescriptions.
With its usual panache, the Aids coalition, ACT UP, has called for a demonstration at the United Nations. They are appealing to that body for relief, on the grounds that New York City should be considered a disaster area.
Many projected demonstrations will target City Hall, where budget hearings will be held by the City Council in the last week of May. It is important for the anti-cutback and anti-layoff movement to be there in force.
It is unlikely, however, that demonstrations alone will stop the cuts and layoffs.
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