FW: Urgent: Escalate in Madison TODAY- PLEASE SHARE WIDELY
martin unzueta
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:36:12 -0400
From: vd...@vdlf.org
To: irta...@hotmail.com
Subject: Urgent: Escalate in Madison TODAY- PLEASE SHARE WIDELY
Join Voces de la Frontera TODAY, 1pm at the Joint Finance Committee Hearing to Defend Public Education and In-State Tuition Rights!
**Please come to the JFC hearing room AT ANY POINT throughout the day, as yesterday they postponed the session several times and did not finish until after midnight.
Yesterday fifty concerned Wisconsinites engaged in an organized, non-violent civil disobedience to halt passage of the state budget, demanding restoration of the cuts to education and in-state tuition for immigrant youth. Hundreds of other students, parents, teachers, and community members joined in support. Video here.
JOIN US AGAIN TODAY, TO ESCALATE OPPOSITION TO WALKER'S EDUCATION BUDGET!
It is imperative for us to return to the Capitol to continue to take action against the passage of this destructive budget. The action yesterday is a call to you to join us at the Joint Finance Committee meeting today and every day that it reconvenes.
WE MUST ESCALATE!
Meet at the United Council, 14 W. Mifflin, TODAY at 12pm
OR
Join us in the JFC Hearing Room, State Capital, 412 East at 1pm
Join our action network now- Text "Voices" for English updates, and "Voces" for Spanish updates, at (520)248-8289
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STATEMENT READ BY EACH PARTICIPANT IN YESTERDAY'S ACTION
Senator Darling and Senator Vos:
You are complicit in moving Governor Walker’s anti-public education budget forward.
We are here today to vehemently oppose this education budget and the process by which you have rammed this budget forward. Holding four public hearings in remote areas during work and school hours is not democracy.
Slashing funds for public education and removing the ability for undocumented students to pay instate tuition rates is mean spirited and immoral.
We demand that public education dollars be restored and that all students living in our state pay in-state tuition rates.
You are taking from the poor to give to the rich. Your actions are unconscionable. Shame on you. You take food out of the mouths of children by cutting reduced breakfast programs while at the same time transferring public money from public schools through an expanded voucher program for the education of wealthy families.
This budget is a budget of the have nots and the have mores.
You are destroying the American Dream for working class and immigrant children in our state.
You justify your actions claiming there is not enough money. You justify your actions claiming immigrant children are taking limited resources from US citizen children.
These claims are unfounded. You refuse to implement a fair taxation for large corporations and the wealthy that would address the budget gap—that is not even that big. You are willing to deny opportunity to immigrant youth who are struggling to study hard to achieve college admission and pay their own way.
You are violating the norms of a civilized society when you invest more in incarceration than in public education.
You promised job creation, yet your budget forces school districts to give pink slips to teachers, school nurses, educational assistants, teaching assistants, social workers, maintenance workers, food workers, among many others.
You promise job creation yet you undermine our ability to produce an educated, diverse, and talented workforce.
To the people of Wisconsin, join us—it is our duty as citizens to resist the passage and implementation of this unjust budget.
Unjust government shall not stand.
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