SOS Photos/Links

I keep trying to do a long piece on SOS but just can't type for that long. Maybe tomorrow.

Here is a slide show I made of the fab GEM workshop at SOS.
A GEM workshop on “Building a Grassroots Movement to Defend Public Education” to a packed room of more than 40 people at Thursday’s conference.  See the montage of the year in review we showed here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vge-rx6QXgQ




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At the GEM blog Julie Cavanagh lists her SOS Top Ten Event Highlights 
(Driving Miss Daisy in drag is not one of them)

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Michael Solo pics at Fight Back Friday blog
http://fightbackfridays.blogspot.com/

Photographs of the Rally & March

https://picasaweb.google.com/113455396360021548056/SaveOurSchoolsRallyMarchSOSJuly30thWashingtonDC?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCN_orJTslIClKg&feat=directlink

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GEM photos on Shutterfly
http://sosmarchgem.shutterfly.com/4

A few highlights

Liza also hurt wrist in bike incident. Matching Fall Risk bracelets

The GEM car crew

Watching movie on bus going home - photo by Brian Jones

Some Coverage - compiled by Michael Solo at GEM's  Fight Back Friday blog:

News Coverage of the SOS Rally & March

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teachers-march-on-washington/2011/07/30/gIQAz48zjI_story.html

http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/sosrally/index.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2011/0730/Save-Our-Schools-March-a-teacher-revolt-against-Obama-education-reform

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-30/us/us.teachers.sos.march_1_teachers-standardized-testing-rallies?_s=PM:US

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-brown/matt-damons-powerful-educ_b_914420.html

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/07/30/37rally_ep.h30.html?tkn=YVRFUJcg2N4yicgNzbtJMSPvdf72iF2K%2B8%2F9&cmp=clp-edweek

http://www.americanindependent.com/196416/thousands-come-out-to-teacher-rally-in-washington-protest-obama-and-decade-of-bad-policies

http://dailycensored.com/2011/08/01/teachers-as-radicals-after-sos-what-now/

http://gothamschools.org/2011/08/01/matt-damon-criticizes-eva-moskowitzs-charters-at-d-c-rally/

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Mark Naison,  Notorious PhD, comments on an ed deformer commentary on his rap at SOS:

Here is a You Tube version of my "Achievement Rap" as performed at the Save Our Schools March in Washington

The commentary is critical and sarcastic, but I have always felt, as a writer, that bad publicity is better than no publicity and I guess I should take the same attitude toward my emerging "career" as a rapper.

Matt Damon's Warm-Up Act: Notorious PHD‏ - YouTube
	www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FXsGH_ajAM