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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (175441)	11/6/2011 11:08:19 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 545725

The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street *Richard Kim* November 2, 2011 \| This article appeared in the November 21, 2011 edition of The Nation. A few years ago, Joe Therrien, a graduate of the NYC Teaching Fellows program, was working as a full-time drama teacher at a public elementary school in New York City. Frustrated by huge class sizes, sparse resources and a disorganized bureaucracy, he set off to the University of Connecticut to get an MFA in his passion—puppetry. Three years and $35,000 in student loans later, he emerged with degree in hand, and because puppeteers aren’t exactly in high demand, he went looking for work at his old school. The intervening years had been brutal to the city’s school budgets—down about 14 percent on average since 2007. A virtual hiring freeze has been in place since 2009 in most subject areas, arts included, and spending on art supplies in elementary schools crashed by 73 percent between 2006 and 2009. So even though Joe’s old principal was excited to have him back, she just couldn’t afford to hire a new full-time teacher. Instead, he’s working at his old school as a full-time “substitute”; he writes his own curriculum, holds regular classes and does everything a normal teacher does. “But sub pay is about 50 percent of a full-time salaried position,” he says, “so I’m working for half as much as I did four years ago, before grad school, and I don’t have health insurance…. It’s the best-paying job I could find.” thenation.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (175441)	11/6/2011 8:49:04 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 545725

Occupy the mind with right to protest Michael Koziol November 7, 2011 I love money far too much to hold a great deal of sympathy for the Occupy movement. I want it - lots of it - and would happily earn it as a greedy chief executive. But I also want, and indeed cherish, a set of freedoms currently being tested by this motley protest group. We may have the right to movement, speech and assembly, but apparently they can be denied if you try to exercise them all at once. I attended much of Saturday's rally and subsequ Read more: smh.com.au