Biggest protest in Albany history
50,000 workers demand state restore budget cuts
Fifty thousand teachers and staff rallied in
Albany, N.Y., May 3 to demand Gov. George Pataki's budget cuts
be restored. The workers came from big cities, like Buffalo and
New York, small towns like Riverhead on the eastern tip of Long
Island and Masena on the Quebec border.
This was by far the largest rally in the history of Albany.
Handmade signs read: "Pataki's budget: nothing more than a
class war" and "A second of war costs more than a year of
school."
--G. Dunkel
Reprinted from the May 15, 2003, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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