[cs_edworkers] I am going -- Solidarity Event with the Puerto Rican Teacher Leaders - Friday, December 11th, 6:30PM

From: Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 19:05:36 -0500

I plan to go to this Friday (sponsored by MORE) to see what FMPR has been
doing these days. I will take the Bernie Sanders leaflet and we may have
something on Brazilian teachers.

Let me know if anyone wants to come.

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Please join MORE activists in an informal conversation with *Mercedes Martinez
of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, and Ana Guzman,
**Secretary-Treasurer
of the FMPR*.

The Federation has been a leader in the fight for public schools and
teachers dignity on the island - an example for social justice teachers
unions around the world - and facing renewed attacks in the context of the
austerity debt crisis.

Please join us for an evening of solidarity!

*Friday, Dec. 11, 6:30-8:30pm - *CUNY Graduate Center, RM 5409 - 365 Fifth
Ave (6 to 33rd, any train to Herald Square, BRING ID).

In Solidarity,

MORE

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Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:30 AM
Subject: [New post] MORE Proudly Supports the Puerto Rican Teachers
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morecaucusnyc posted: "There are few unions in North America which has as
proud a tradition of struggle as the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico.
The FMPR, after battling for autonomy from the AFT, lead a 2008 strike
that, among other things, kept the island free of charter" Respond to this
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<http://morecaucusnyc.org/2015/11/24/more-proudly-supports-the-puerto-rican-teachers-federation/>
by
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There are few unions in North America which has as proud a tradition of
struggle as the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico. The FMPR, after
battling for autonomy from the AFT, lead a 2008 strike that, among other
things, kept the island free of charter schools.

[image: FMPR marcha]This week, the FMPR (along with other teacher
organizations) helped lead a massive one day strike, protesting austerity
and privatization and the territory's education "reform" plan in the
context of its debt crisis. They are in the course of rebuilding their
organization after a series of attacks, including government
decertification, raids by SEIU, and firing of its executive committee from
their jobs as teachers. MORE is proud to announce that we are supporting
the FMPR in its fundraising drive with a $200 contribution, even though we
are in the midst of our own fundraising campaign for the UFT elections.

Please consider making your own contribution and circulating this
fundraising letter
<https://morecaucusnyc.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/fmpr-solidarity-letter.pdf>
to your coworkers and fellow unionists. This is an important effort to
build concrete solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are examples of
the kind of struggles that we need to wage in order to win.

[image: FMPR viejo san juan]Check can be sent to:
Federación de Maestros de PR
Urb. El Caribe
1572 Ave. Ponce de León
San Juan, P.R. 00926-2710
¡La Lucha Sigue!

*morecaucusnyc <http://morecaucusnyc.org/author/morecaucusnyc/>* | November
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[cs_edworkers] I am going -- Solidarity Event with the Puerto Rican Teacher Leaders - Friday, December 11th, 6:30PM

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