«This year it's the top issue on our list as school districts across the state are scrambling to meet the General
Assembly's mandate to lower
class sizes, while at the same time
trying to protect thousands of art, music and PE teachers and create hundreds of new classrooms.»
Groups like ICE FREE QUEENS, Queens is not 4 sale, Mothers on the Move, Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network, Equality for Flatbush, People's Cultural Plan, Take Back the Bronx, Brooklyn Hi - Art Machine, Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, East Harlem Preservation Coalition, East Harlem Anti-Rezoning Project, East Harlem No Se Vende, Defend Corona, Queens Neighborhoods United, SPARC, Chinatown Art Brigade, Decolonize This Place, People's Power
Assembly Queens, People's Power
Assembly Manhattan are all
trying to solve problems that artists and gallerists haven't even figured out how to articulate, because the violence against working -
class neighborhoods is palpable to us.