FIGHTBACKFRIDAYS

UPCOMING ACTIONS

Stand Up For Public Education!

PAST ACTIONS

Next Fight Back Friday is June 10th!
Sponsoring Organizations

http://gemnyc.org/

http://www.nycore.org/

http://teachersforajustcontract.org/

http://www.teachersunite.net/

http://capeducation.blogspot.com/

http://iceuftblog.blogspot.com

Participating Schools

El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, Brooklyn
Felisa Rincon de Gautier Inst. of Law & Public Policy HS Bronx
PS 15, Brooklyn
PS 157, Brooklyn
Academy for Environmental Leadership, Brooklyn
East Brooklyn Community High School in Canarsie, Brooklyn
Pan American International HS - Elmhurst Queens
Sunset Park High School, Brooklyn
PS 306, Queens
PS 69, Queens
PS 503, Brooklyn
Facing History, Manhattan
Lehman High School, Bronx
MS 136, Brooklyn
PS 94, Brooklyn
PS 193, Brooklyn
Green School, Brooklyn
Goldstein High School, Brooklyn
Lyons School, Brooklyn
PS 3, Brooklyn
PS 307, Brooklyn
Bronx international HS, Bronx
James Baldwin High School, Manhattan
Humanities Prep, Manhattan
PS 261, Brooklyn
International School, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Neighborhood School, Manhattan
Earth School, Manhattan
Children's Workshop School, Manhattan
John Dewey High School, Brooklyn
Brooklyn New School
PS 24, Brooklyn
PS 368, Manhattan
Bronx International High School, Morris Campus
IS 218, East New York

May 20th Fight Back Friday

PS 261, Brooklyn
PS 321, Brooklyn
Sunset Park High School, Brooklyn
PS 306, Queens,
PS 69, Queens
PS 503, Brooklyn
PS 254, Brooklyn
Facing History School, Manhattan
International School for Liberal Arts
Lehman High School, Bronx
PS 368, Bronx
PS 230, Brooklyn
Paul Robeson High School, Brooklyn
PS 24, Brooklyn
MS 136, Brooklyn
PS 193, Brooklyn
Bushwick School for Social Justice
Academy for Urban Planning
John Dewey High School, Brooklyn
PS 157, Brooklyn
Green School, Brooklyn
PS 123, Manhattan
Frederick Douglass Academy 5, Bronx
El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice
PS 15, Brooklyn
East Brooklyn Community High School in Canarsie
PAIHS, Queens
Neighborhood School, Manhattan
Childrens' Workshop School, Manhattan
James Baldwin School, Manhattan
Humanitites Prep, Manhattan
Lyons High School, Brooklyn
FDR High School, Brooklyn
Goldstein High School, Brooklyn
Jamaica High School, Queens
Bronx International HS, Morris Campus
High School for Excellence, Morris Campus
Alfred E Smith High School, Bronx

Families, teachers, and school staff are also
meeting in front of PS 10 in Brooklyn
and will march along 7th avenue
to join PS 295, MS 88, and New Voices.

Friday, March 25th-Join Public Schools Across the City to Advocate for Real Reforms that Will Transform our Public Schools.

After taking action in your school join us for a…
Press Conference @ 4:30 on the Steps of Tweed
(52 Chambers in Manhattan)

Photographs From March 25th FBF
https://picasaweb.google.com/108122375451944539262/FightBackFriday3252011?authkey=Gv1sRgCIb4oaX4sajdcw&feat=directlink#
--- Sponsored by GEM and NYCoRE ---

www.grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com

www.nycore.org

If you, your school, or your school community plan to participate in Fight Back Friday, let us know @ sam_p_coleman@yahoo.com so that we can include you on our list of participants/endorsers and interactive map as well as provide you with a Fight Back Friday Toolkit! The Toolkit will include literature and educational materials, media information, stickers, and sample materials to assist in your school organizing efforts. Visit our Blog @ www.fightbackfridays.blogspot.com, and post to our Facebook page @ fightbackfridays. Send in your school's perspectives, testimonials, videos and pictures of Fight Back Actions to fightbackfridays@gmail.com so that we can post them on this Blog.

Participating Schools

The Academy for Environmental Leadership
The Academy of Urban Planning
Bushwick School for Social Justice
James Baldwin High School
Humanities Prep High School
PS 307 Brooklyn
Pan American Internnational H.S.,Queens
PS 24 Brooklyn
PS 15 Brooklyn
PS 157 Brooklyn
Earth School
PS 41 Manhattan
Lehman H.S., Bronx
P. S. 193 Brooklyn
John Dewey H.S., Brooklyn
Lyons Community School, Brooklyn
PS 368 Manhattan
The Green School, Brooklyn
PS 347 Manhattan
PS/IS 187 Manhattan
Alfred E Smith H.S., Bronx
Neighborhood School, Manhattan
PS 230 Brooklyn
International H.S. at Prospect Heights
PS 254 Brooklyn

Join The Real Reformers at the Upcoming Panel for Educational Policy Meetings (all at Brooklyn Technical High School @ 5:30):

March 1st: **(note changed from 2/15)**: Support schools facing co-locations and Join us in declaring our schools are not for sale; say NO to the privatization agenda.

February 3rd: Support schools facing closings. Join us in telling the PEP that the current school closing policy is misguided and destructive, they should be supporting and fixing our schools, not closing them.

February 1st: Support schools facing closing and co-location. Join us in telling the PEP that Co-Locations only divide and hurt our public school communities.

January 19th: Greet Cathleen Black and tell her and the PEP to Defend Public Education and end the historic inequity in funding, particularly for schools that serve Black and Latino children.

January 21st: Fight Back Friday- Stand Up for Public Education, Wear Black and Take Our Schools Back! (email capeducation@gmail.com for more information or to endorse). Press Conference on the steps of Tweed @ 4:30.

Endorsers and Participants

Sponsored by GEM

www.grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com

CEC1-unanimously endorsed
CIF- Center for Immigrant Families
Chris Owens- Democratic District Leader/ 52nd Assembly
NYCORE -New York Collective of Radical Educators
CAPE -Concerned Advocates for Public Education

Participating Schools:(list in formation)

PS 24

PS 15

PS 165

PS 3K

The Earth School (PS 364)

The Academy for Environmental Leadership

John Dewey H.S.

James Baldwin

Lehman High School

Humanities Prep

Paul Robeson H.S.
Murry Bergtraum

Jamaica High School

Youth On The Move

January 27th: City-Wide Rally from 4:30-6:30 @ City Hall Plaza- Stop School Closings, Charter Take Overs, Defend Public Education, Stop the Drive to Privatize. (email gemnyc@gmail.com for more information or to endorse)

Sponsors

Ad Hoc Committee to Stop School Closings and Charter Takeovers
Class Size Matters
Coalition for Public Education (CPE)
Grassroots Education Movement NYC (GEM)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)
The Manhattan Local of the Green Party of NY State
United Federation of Teachers (UFT)

Endorsers (list in formation)

Teachers for a Just Contract (TJC)
Concerned Advocates for Public Education (CAPE)
Independent Community of Educators (ICE)
Center For Immigrant Families (CIF)
Puerto Rico Solidarity Network - PRSN NY
People Power Movement
Renaissance School of the Arts-M377 (UFT Chapter)
City Wide Coalition For Educational Excellence Now
South Bronx Community Council
Black Women Against Urban Youth Violence
Teachers Unite (TU)
NYwithUPR (NY with University of Puerto Rico)
Independent Workers Movement/Movimiento Independiente de Trabajadores
Chris Owens/ District Leader/52nd AD,
Retiree Advocate Caucus-UFT
CUNY Mobilization Network
Green Party of NYS
Independent Commission of Public Education (ICOPE)
Radical Women
Answer Coalition
Community Education Council 1 (CEC 1)
Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence (BNYEE)

FIGHTBACKFRIDAYS

Dewey Protests

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Fight Back Friday - January 27th

Monday, January 16, 2012

John Dewey H.S. To Fight Back Against Bloomberg Attack - January 20th

Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Panel(Puppets) for Educational Policy-Newtown High School

Occupy DOE Uses Mic Check to Open the Meeting

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

NYC Public School Parents Want Eva Moskowitz Out Of Our Public Schools

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Occupy The DOE

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Occupy Wall Street (Rally & March) - 10/5/11

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Fight Back Friday - on Tuesday, Oct. 4

Next Fight Back Friday is June 10th!