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July 2, 2018

June 30 National Day of Action
• Buffalo Joins Actions Defending Rights of Children, Refugees and Immigrants (photos)

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June 22 — July 20, 2018

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May 18, 2018

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March-April, 2018

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March 25, 2018

Students Demand Change
• Books Not Bullets! Demilitarize Police! Counselors Not Cops (photos)

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January 22, 2018

Hundreds of Actions Across the Country
• Buffalo Joins Demonstrations on One-Year Anniversary of Trump Presidency
• Buffalo March: Uniting to Strengthen the Resistance (photos)

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December 15, 2017

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December 4, 2017

Elections and the Need for Political Empowerment
• Organize to Build the New and Refuse to Remain Stuck in the Old
• People Must Play a Role in Deciding the Agenda
• Erie County and Buffalo Elections Results
• Buffalo State Speak Out

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November 17, 2017

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March 30, 2017

You Can Choose to Refuse
• Opt Out 2017: Refusing Education as a Police Power — Dr. Mark Garrison, markgarrison.net
• Eight Reasons to Opt Out — Peter Greene
• Demand Equality and Justice for All — Jesse The Walking Turner, Children Are More Than a Test Score, March 22, 2017

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March 28, 2017

• To Raise the Quality of Education, Refuse the Tests!
• Test Refusal = People Power — Critical Classrooms, Critical Kids, March 14, 2017
• Say No to Receivership

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March 24, 2017

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February 24, 2017

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January 27, 2017

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December 16, 2016

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November 18, 2016

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October 21, 2016

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October 10, 2016

Buffalo Stands with Standing Rock
• Demonstration Defends Right to Safe Water and Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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September 28, 2016

Thousands of Teachers Rally at City Hall
• Working Conditions for Teachers are Learning Conditions for Students — Improve them Now!

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September 23, 2016

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July-August 2016

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June 17, 2016

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June 16, 2016

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May 20, 2016

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April 29, 2016

Celebrating Its Many Languages and Cultures
• Lafayette Shows Its Internationalist Spirit

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April 22, 2016

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April 15, 2016

Actions in Schools Citywide
• Teachers and Students Stand Up for Quality Education

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April 4, 2016

New Parents Join the Movement
• Successful Forum Energizes Buffalo to Increase Opt Out — Report from a Parent Participant
• Parents and Students You Have the Right to Refuse State Tests

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Demonstration February 10
• Buffalo Teachers Reject Receivership, Demand Smaller Classes and
Equal Rights for All

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January 22, 2016

New Year's Greetings from Buffalo Forum
Initiative is in Our Hands — Advance Our Fight for Empowerment

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November 19, 2015

United Against State Dictate
• Teachers, Parents, Students, Say NO! to Receivership, YES! to Smaller Classes

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November 10, 2015

Refuse the Tests and Refuse Receivership
• Unite District-Wide Against Education Commissioner’s Dictate
• Say NO! to Commisioner's Dictate and YES! to Public Control (PDF)

RALLY NOVEMBER 18, CITY HALL, 4PM
REFUSE STATE DICTATE AND STAND FOR DEMOCRACY
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL NEEDS PUBLIC CONTROL!
Unite District-Wide: OUR SCHOOLS, OUR RIGHTS, WE DECIDE

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October 22, 2015

Public Control of Public Schools
• Lafayette Students and Teachers Say: We Refuse Receivership! (photos)

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September 3, 2015

McKinley Refuse Receivership Rally
• Teachers, Parents, Students Demand Decision Making Power (photos)

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August 12, 2015

Refuse Receivership
• Picket Says: Hurricane Andrew Keep Out of Our Schools
• Public Control Solution, Not State Takeover

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August 5 , 2015

Stand United District-Wide
• Remove Lafayette and All Schools from Receivership List
• An Open Letter to Superintendent Brown and the School Board on Receivership — From a Public Speaker at School Board Meetings

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July 30, 2015

Stand Firm for Public Control of Public Schools
• Top Ten Reasons to Refuse Receivership
• Education Commissioner Dictates Receivership for Twenty-five Buffalo Schools
• List of Twenty-Five Buffalo Schools Under Receivership

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July 20, 2015

Our Schools, We Decide
• Who Decides for “Community Engagement Teams”
• School #6 Demonstration Against Receivership Shows the Way Forward

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June 25, 2015

International Night at Lafayette
• Songs and Dance Celebrate Many Cultures

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May 22 , 2015

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May 4, 2015

Buffalo May Day Celebrations
• Our Future, Our Rights, We Decide
• Songs for International May Day Event: Refuse the Tests and
Troops Home Now, Not Tomorrow
• Unions Organize on May 1

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April 23 , 2015

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March 27, 2015

Our Schools, We Decide
• No State Takeover! Education is a Right! (photos and report)

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March 25, 2015

Growing Resistance to Testing and Receivership
• Hundreds Say Indict Cuomo for Crimes Against Students and Public Schools
• Ken-Ton Votes to Boycott Common Core State Tests
• Ken-Ton Resolution Demands Full Funding and Opposes Common Core Testing and Evaluation Regime

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March 12, 2015

Albany Protest Demands
• Full Funding Now! Our Schools, We Decide! (report and photos)
• A Lesson in Hypocrisy and Double Standards

Reject Cuomo's Anti-Education and Anti-Democratic Plans
• State Receivership Is No Solution
• Lawrence Receivership Example and Issues of Decision Making

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February 13, 2015

Protests Affirm Public's Stand
• Our Schools, We Decide!
• Measuring Our Success

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January 29, 2015

Equal Right to Education for All
• Public Persists in Demanding:Public Control of Public Schools
• A New Public for a New Public Education is Emerging

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December 23, 2014

Say NO to Closing Lafayette, Bennett, East, MLK
• Raising Quality of Public Schools Requires an Increase in Public Control
• Redesign Plans Call for Schools to be Organizing Centers for Community
• Cuomo Calls “Education Bureaucracy” the Enemy and Targets Buffalo
• Was Dr. Perry Brought to Buffalo to Split Teachers and Parents?

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November 26, 2014

Rallies in Ferguson and 170 Nationwide Demand Justice for Mike Brown
• Buffalo Joins Actions Opposing Racist Police Killings

October 16, 2014

Lafayette, Bennett, East, MLK Belong to the Public
• Public Control of Public Schools

July 18, 2014

U.S. Stop Aid to Israel!
• Spirited Buffalo Action Salutes Resistance in Palestine

February 21, 2014

Opposing Common Core and Refusing the Tests
• Organize to Keep Matters in Our Own Hands
• Join Efforts to Refuse the Tests
• Upcoming Event: The Truth About Common Core, Testing, and Data Sharing: Why Parents Are Opting Out
• Parents and Teachers Stand United Against Common Core
• The Defiant Parents: Testing’s Discontents — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker
• Bad Questions Are Not the Same as Hard Questions — Katherine Sorel, Brooklyn Teacher, WNYC’s SchoolBook blog
• Upcoming March Events Defending the Right to Education

February 18, 2014

Keep Initiative in Our Hands
• State Legislation Calls for Halting Common Core
• Amendments to S6604 Education Legislation for Consideration
• Failed Implementation, or Failed Governance? On the Possibility of a Common Core Moratorium — Dr. Mark Garrison, markgarrison.net
• Upcoming March Events Defending the Right to Education

January 17, 2014

Defending the Right to Education
• Organize Today to be Decision Makers
• Parents and Teachers United in Opposing Testing and Common Core
• The Political and Psychological Essence of High Stakes Testing — Dr. Mark Garrison, markgarrison.net
• Albany Action: Full Funding for Education Now
• School Peace — Majahzi Jacque, Emerald Wilcox, Denzel Loyd, Narasonda Gibbs and staff of the Center for Teen Empowerment

January 10, 2014

Democracy Means We Decide Not Cuomo
• Albany Action Demands: Ban Fracking in New York and Everywhere
• Anti-Fracking Organizers Gain Erie County Ban

October 18, 2013

Education is a Right
• Education Summit Opposes Common Core and Defends the Public Interest
• Public Meetings Serve the Public Interest — Demand One in Every District
• King and Buffalo News Try to Block Opposition to Common Core
• Education Groups Call for Commissioner John King to Resign

Ban Fracking Now
• Buffalo Joins Global Frackdown

November 26, 2012

Buffalo Action November 24
• Salute Resistance in Palestine

April 23, 2012

Buffalo State Demonstration April 19
• Ask the Students, Ask the Staff, We Don't Want Your Fracking Gas

March 3, 2012

March 2 Demonstration
• Teachers Demand Funding for Education and Say Hands Off Pensions!

May 3, 2011

• Buffalo May Day Stands Up for Rights

April 29 , 2011

HealthNow Office Workers and Teachers Rally
• Concessions Are Not Solutions

April 5, 2011

Buffalo April 4 Action
• We Are One and We Fight for All

March 15, 2011

Hold All Public Officials Accountable
• Lackawanna Stands Against Racism by Public Officials