400 Students Walk Out in Protest

In the Pioneer Valley town of South Hadley about 400 high school students walked out of classes on March 31 to protest public school funding cuts. The National Education Association (NEA) is the nation's biggest union, and a major donor to the Democratic party. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Democrat and a member of congress from New York who, with Bernie Sanders, attracted 30,000 people to an anti-Trump rally in Colorado on March 21. Amy Foley is president of the NEA chapter in South Hadley. On April 1, she told the Valley Post that about 400 students took part in the protest.

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“Israel has killed at least 112 Palestinians over the past day,” Democracy Now reported on April 4. In Brattleboro on April 5 at noon there will be a rally to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The rally will be outside the main post office. A group that's promoting the rally has a web page at:

https://grassrootsfund.org/groups/upper-valley-action-affinity-group

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The Vermont legislature is awaiting a study of Vermont's use of a for-profit prison in Mississippi. The study is supposed to be done by November. Conor Casey is a member of the state legislature. He thinks the state should reduce its prison population and stop sending people to the for-profit prison. All the prisons in Vermont are full. They are owned by the state, not a private corporation.

No nation keeps such a high percentage of its people in prison as the USA. Europe's rate is a third of ours. Vermont's rate is double Europe's rate. The USA's prison system in racist, according to the book The New Jim Crow. The Ella Baker Center has had inspiring victories in its fight to end mass incarceration nation-wide.

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