Thursday, March 31, 2011

New York's 'day of rage' against cuts

Thousands protest against plans to slash education and healthcare budgets in state with highest income inequality.


In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall last Thursday, chanting "the people united will never be defeated!"
As the contagious effects of democratic uprisings radiate from North Africa to North America, New York City's exploited workers and students are not about to let the opportunity for mass struggle pass them by.
The "Day of Rage Against the Cuts" has been in the works for over four months, ever since New York's recently appointed Democrat governor Andrew Cuomo openly declared his intention to slash spending on public education and healthcare and lacerate the budget previously allocated to state agencies by over half a billion dollars in order to close an estimated budget gap of $10 mn.
"I am fed up with Bloomberg and Cuomo taxing students and hiking tuition," said Sarah Anees, a graduate student at the City University of New York (CUNY).
"Passing a 100-dollar million budget cut on CUNY means less financial aid assistance, fewer professors, more decrepit buildings and no daycare services for student-parents," Anees said...........................................................http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011328111314767851.html

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