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Protesters face roadblocks to achieve goals
- 03-05-2010
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Blog by Andrew Khouri/Neon Tommy
The thousands of students, teachers, and staff members protesting public education cuts in California and across the nation Thursday, face huge obstacles in forcing the change they seek. Will their calls for action gain momentum and force change the way the civil rights and anti-war movements did in the 1960s? Or will they make a big splash before slowly evaporating into a political morass like the immigration rallies of 2006 -- big on visuals, short on meaningful reform. Does the nascent movement have a leader or can it even find one in the decaying halls of state government? Where will the money needed to resuscitate public schools come from? (more...)
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