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Day next step after the rally will be to launch a campaign against mass deportations of im migrants. Hundreds of thousands of people have been deported Communities program, through which enables local the police Secure and Immigration and Customsshare forcementinformation to immiabout En grants’ legal status. Gutierrrez said. usebirth make control.those Walcott won’t kinds of gaffes, but after years of underin vestment a sustained period of new school construction will be needed to address the overcrowding crisis. bricks:Clicksnot • announcedcreate50,000would it class new seats by 2014. By April, the goal had been scaled down to 29,000 seats though was change no in enrollment. there Meanwhile, the latest 2010–2014 Plan Capital calls for $957 million to be establishing spent online on learning systems at 400 schools the over next two to three years (in cluding$540million as inFiscal2012) Year the Bloomberg administration pursues vision of entire its classrooms of students tak ing courses (and standardized tests) online. To date, there has been no independent re learning thisof formshowsthat search done is more effective for schoolchildren. and Walcott to continue pushing the issue. the pushing continue to Walcott and • School construction: newschool seats createdwere in the first six years of the Bloomberg administration than in the last six years under hisRudy Giuliani. predecessorNow, one-fourth of elemen tarykindergartenschools have waiting lists. Whengroupa Lower of Manhattan parents complained to Cathie Black overcrowding, about school she joked that they should ------Still calling the shots. Mayor Bloomberg: - - - - Crowded Crowded . “It’s be n the wake of collective bargaining tacks at in the Midwest,state legislation throughout anti-immigrant the country While the two demonstrations will start The main groups involved in organizing think“I organizersthethatall of bothfor While the May 1st Coalition has been callgoodallwill onpeople join “We of to A broad cross-section of immigrant and a real unemployment rate of nearly 16 percent, a broad coalition of labor and im migrantrights groups will be holding rallies Cityin on New May Day. York out at separate locations and Union Square —Foley— they will converge for Square a final rallyat Foley Square later in the af ternoon. demonstrationOur Day Day thetheMay — CoalitionImmigrant May& 1st Worker for Rights and the Labor Rights, Rights, Jobs for Immigrant All Coalition — want say to they present a broad opposition to current the attacks on labor unions and immi grant workers. rallies recognized that our survival depends on our unity and solidarity,” Gutierrez, said co-coordinator Teresa of the Coalition & Immigrant for Worker May Rights. 1st holding rallies at Union Square since 2005, theSquareFoley startedevent MayDay last year, with labor groups heading the efforts. primarily spear indenouncing the ongoing attacks labor, on bargaining rights, wages, benefits indelible and right of the all workers to join unions throughout this nation,” said Sonia Ivany, SquarepresiRallyco-chairandFoley the of dent of the NYC Labor Council for American Latin Advancement. May Day Solidarity Day May By Elizabeth Henderson I This is especially true in the formative early years of a child’s education. Yet, class size in city schools has steadily increased in the pastthree years, including Atgradesin K–3. an April 7 meeting with parents at elementarySlope a officialsschool,DOE were Park showered with boos when that theyclass size limits disclosed were being boosted to 25students kindergartenfor firstfor and32 grade. “What makes 107] unique is [P.S. the of it,” intimacyone par ent told Park the Patch Slope ing ripped out from us.” under • Teacher lay offs: c l a s s r be may a press o o m s ing concern for parents, but not the mayor. Instead, he has threatened to cut as many as 6,000 teacher positions in the hopes of forc ing concessions on higher- of rid get teacher to easier it make would that seniority rules salaried veteran teachers in of favor cheaper new hires. 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Ravi and Amy prepare to have friends over for a potluck Renée Feltz Renée HOLDING ON: dinner to discuss updates in his case. ‘To the outside person who doesn’t have to live through this, they are not hearing what I hear in my head. “Is this the day I’ll be deported? Where will I live?”’ Ravi says he tries to think instead ‘about allthe things I want to do, should do, need to do. It is not just about myself. Until we change the system, hundreds of thousands of people are in the same situation as me every day.’ ummer we were very scared ­ s might balance out any sort of negative mark a past conviction might leave or present evidence about the nature of thatconviction,’ says Alina Das, who represents Ravi and works at NYU’s ­Immigrant Rights Clinic. ‘If Ravi wins his case this could open the door for others to have their day in court as well.’ rectortheof ­di acing ­f Ravi and his defense LastRavisummermarried Gottlieb, Ravi prays at Riverside Church with members of his support committee. ‘This past ­m masterexitingzone, terrifying. 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You’re You’re saying that these operations Larry Derfner and Bernard Avishai hilip Weiss, an editor of the Mondo weiss blog, interviewed Norman Fin kelstein, a noted scholar and dogged I often quote the title of your book, I don’t think that’s entirely true. They … The problem I have with your argu

were effective. ment is that premised it’s on the notion that Israelis think that they have another option exceptthe resort massive to force. Butthat’s just not how Israelis think. The Israeli men tality is the Arabs only understand the lan guage of force, and if they get out of hand, you have to go in with the big stick or club big and break some skulls. For Israel big the problem with Goldstone is that it preventing was them wars. from … launching future This Time We Went Too Far from that, not so much they learnedlesson, their but there’s less impunity. They un derstandthat this operation, didwhatever it or didn’t do, really hurt their image around the world. lowing are excerpts from that interview. critic of Israel, about the controversy. Fol have have suggested that Israelis have misgivings about all that destruction they perpetrated, end. no to of all, there’s been the tit for tat going on for goingon tat all,beenfor thetit of there’s a long time, so he is not personally culpable for the current tit for tat. If, however, thisclimaxes in a second massacre on the scale of Operation Cast Lead 1, then he’s responsible; of he would coursehave given Israel the impunity it needed; otherwise it launchednot have a second attack could on Gaza. [Goldstone’s [Goldstone’s reconsideration] might the further to way attacks. pave PW: NF: PW: NF: PW: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: PHILIPWEISS: op-ed by Richard Goldstone questioned in the findings which of report. the he P Editor’s note: The report by the U.N. By Philip Weiss HumanRights Council fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-2009, known as the “Goldstone Report,” breaking was ground for potentially holding crimescommittedwar itsduring account for Israel to assault on Gaza, which resulted in at least 900 civilian deaths and In April 5,000the wounded. What GoldstoneWhat Wrought didachieve something. theyJustas achieved something in Lebanon in 2006. It was quite clear that henceforth Hezbollah careful was very not to provoke after anJuly/August 2006, Israelibecause Hezbollah attack, knew that an Israeli attack would alienate the whole population againstSo during the Gaza Hezbollah.assault, Hezbollah was very quiet … and the reason was obvious,because they knew turn their the wrath on Hezbollah Lebanese if it seemed wouldas if they had provoked a war in defense of not Lebanese but Gazans. … In the case of Gaza, it had its successes. 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------Similarly, on March 30, Maj. Council has Mubarak-like issued increasingly laws. 23, On the council’s ministerial March cabi net promulgated a new law saying that those who harm the economy with public demonstrations could be fined up to 500,000 pounds Egyptian (over $83,000) and/or im prisoned. The law targets sectors like the police, which have struck continuously since Feb. 11, but it could be applied to the industrial actions and street composed the revolution. protests that Gen.MamdouhShahin announced a “constitutionalwherein the amendments arti 63 nine of referendum ratifiedwere declaration” by whichreaffirmed cles, of most laws of the Mubarak era. One more familiar of stipulations was the the provision that parties cannot be

If putting up its own candidate seems too Over the last few months the Supreme Many Egyptians have begun to grumble The March 19 referendum may have led under is center the define to contest great A Most, however, think that another general- president is a non-starter, with the Ghad liberal party leader Wa’il Nawwara calling such a prospect “impossible.” brazen, the military could run a candidate suchtheas docile newPrime Minister ‘Isam Sharaf,thenwho could appointvice a presi dential candidate who happens to be a for mer general. religious, sectarian or regional in character. the many, For declaration was deepa disap pointmentrevealing theSupremeCouncil to be disdainful of consultative governance or even explanation its of reasoning. about the military’s nent role. increasingly A well-attended April promi 1 in Tahrir Square protest called upon Field Marshal HusaynTantawi, Mubarak’s minister de of fense, to resign from the Supreme Council and demanded swifter action toward ting the put men of the deposed regime on trial corruptionfor otherandoffenses. move Ina that surprised many, the oned militaryMubarak’s two sons on impris April 13 and has reportedly detained himself in Husnia hospital. But Mubarak Mubarakwas al ready sacrificedto the crowds; the real test commitmentarmy’sthe democracy of to lies ahead. the army to bank on Egyptians a silentwho will majority cling to of the institution they have known for the past place 60 of the years Brothers inor protesters who are seen as disrupting normal life. At the same time, discontent with the military is grow ing, and one can expect more popular mo bilizations to safeguard the process Egyptians revolutionary began by heroically over throwing their dictator 30 of years. way and the outcome remainsTheonlycertainty thatis after anexhilarat unknown. ing spring, Egypt is in for a hot summer. Joshua Stacher is political assistant science at professor Kent This State of article University. was excerpted originally from a published report merip.org. Project, by Information and Research the Middle East - - - - —Muhammad Habib, Habib, —Muhammad The revolution is far from over. Yet, as the as Yet, over. fromfar is revolutionThe Given such uncertainties, it is possible Much speculation has centered on Amr Yet by rejecting the referendum despite First, one should not mistake the army’s former Muslim Brothers official Brothers Muslim former THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES Islamists continue to expand their political influence, many of the secularary forces may revolution have second thoughts. If the Brothers racked up large numbers of seats September’sparliamentaryin elections, how would Egyptian society and Egypt’s exter nal patrons respond? that someone like Army Chief of Staff Gen. Sami ‘Inan could run for executiveLike office. many of his fellow generals, now using the ‘Inansame social networking istools that helped the theirachievementsJanuary in February. and revolutionaries publicize Thequestion is which political figure would be credible, to the West and the people,as facea “civilianize” to Egyptianthe regime. Moussa, whose mostly unblemished record of cooperation with the system made him seemingly an ideal candidate to protect the military’s political and economic while interests appearing to represent change. Such a deal would produce an power-sharing informal closed agreement very democratizing excluding forces that the usheredthe military as governors. in the military’s widely the known proposed support constitutional for Moussa amendments, and otherpresidential candidates formally threw in with announced revolutionary theirelements opposed to lot in cremental change. Are these candidates out withpopulacethetouchthatsupports theof military, the Brothers and a fast transition? And can the army, which returned to glory for sending Mubarak off al-Sheikh into sunset, the simply walk away Sharmdespite enjoying such broad and deep popularity? Most is it say too soon tell. to ment would defer to military prerogatives. tion deflate and discontent settles back in.But things may be changing. reluctance to govern for an aversion to rule. The army is accustomed to ruling Egypt in civilianvisage.measure,a withthoughsome takeCouncilTheSupremecompelled to was thestage Mubarakwhen dismissed,was but it would happily return behind the curtains if it were confident that a civilian govern

------uphold uphold unpopular foreign They policies. are using the Brothers to serve stability.’ of source domestic this as control control domestic stability yet still ‘The ‘The military realized they could not - - - - - Muslim Brother youths have reportedly As for future plans, the Broth Before the revolution, the Muslim Broth Rather than protest this fresh injustice, WILL THEY OR WILL STAY THEY GO? A report published in late February by the International Crisis Group argues that the Supreme Council of the keen Armed to Forces move to is a civilian quickly as governmentpossible. The motive as is to relieve the generals of political responsibility when the high expectations raised by the revolu ognizes that times have changed. We not can manage our meetings and information inthethat way had. we But this wasnever a function of secrecy, as analysts said. It was because of the oppressive climate in which hadwe operate.” to INTERNAL INTIFADA mounted an internal intifada, against presumably the tion Brothers’ with the coopera army, are not forthcoming but on leadersthe topic. Muhammad Saad al-Kitatni, head of the Brothers’ delegation in the parliament serving from 2005 to 2010, says vaguely, arethere coming but in,ideas some “There are also discussions taking place. The youth just met with guide the last general week.” Al-Shatir tends that con most youth who object to the society’s present course are not full members of the Brothers, only sympathizers. Muslim ers are thin on details — whether thequestion is which districts they plan to contest in September’s leg islative elections or banner under they what will run. has Al-Kitatni been named head Freedom and Justice of Party affiliat a new ed with the Brothers, but little information is available about this party other than the stipulation that “any Egyptian citizen that agrees with the program and internal plat form can join.” When asked who else from the Brothers would be responded, joining, “People are still al-Kitatnidiscussing this. just me.” Right it’s now, ers were highly Egypt’s rulers critical used to circumscribe of the po the litical process. methods Not today. On for example, March the 26,Supreme Council released a draft law that included a ban on founded partieson sectarian, religious or regional bases, just like the Mubarak-era Under law. Mubarak, this clause stood as targeting was the Brothers. widely under however, the Brothers took it in stride. Es sam al-Erian, a prominent spokesman the for group, shrugged it Brothers off: group “The will Muslim not turn into The a political party. party we are now founding is a civil one, based on the principles Brotherswillingtheare Perhaps of to zenship.” citi play the same game with the army that they played with Mubarak, accepting that their society is technically outlawed and cannot enter the political arena except under thindisguises. If so, the military-Muslim Broth ers alliance might ensure a degree of social peace, but would hardly be a step toward a transparenttrulyandpoliticalfree systemin Egypt. years in prison, explained, “The group rec 14 APRIL 27 – MAY 17, 2011 THE INDYPENDENT Indypendent Ad.indd 1 SpiritChild, RudeMechanical Orchestra and Co-host ofDemocracy Now! Columnist for theNew York Daily News Juan González Featured Speaker Info on Peace, Justice, the Economy Brooklyn College Student Center Convenient transportation from allBrooklyn neighborhoods: Community organizations. Music. Saturday Art. Poetry. Dance. Spoken Word. The Brooklyn College Student Center and Iraq Vets Against the War (IVAW) and more oftoday’s voices ofpeace E. 27th & Campus Road, Brooklyn BRooklyn FoR PEaCE For more information andto participate contact: Workshops and Discussions Hip-Hop. Activities for kids. 2, 5to FlatbushAvenue/Brooklyn College 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. B6, B103,B41,B44,B11,BM2 Performances by Co-Sponsored by and More. 718.624.5921 [email protected] brooklynpeace.org BRooklyn FoR PEaCE presents

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