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NEWS & LETTERS, June 2004March and hunger strike for educationOakland, Cal.--Borrowing a page from Cesar Chavez's activism, nearly 1,000 students, parents and their supporters from the community marched 70 miles in eight days in April from San Pablo to Sacramento to plead with the government for funding for their schools. Unfortunately neither the legislators nor the governor showed up to listen to them after their march. Following Chavez's steps further, nine students, teachers and activists started a hunger strike in downtown Oakland on May 10 to bring attention to the plight of the schools. This is their commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 40th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Their demands are: restore the $2 billion cut to all California schools, equity in education funding and elimination of the West County debt. --Concerned |
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