Building Update

From Leith B. Jasinowski-Kahl: LET THIS BE KNOWN: I am a More for Mann Coalition Task Force member, seated to discuss the future use of the Horace Mann building with the school district, as are two of my co-workers, Gabriel Prawl and Purnell Mitchell. My two co-workers have asked me to post the following on behalf of all three of us: WE HAVE NOT AGREED TO MOVE, AND WE ARE ANGRY THAT MANY OF OUR TEACHERS HAVE BEEN PUSHED OUT INTO THE COLD BY DISTRICT THREATS AND INTIMIDATION! We don't think it's right that they were forced to shut down their classes or face the threat "tresspass" charges from the district. It isn't right that the school district refused to sign the lease on the interim space it offered them. It isn´t right that the school district hasn´t cleaned the mold, filth and birds nests out of that space. It isn´t right for them top make our teachers teach in the rainy streets. It isn´t even right that the school district attorney Ron English and the board members who listen to him are bullying Superintendent Banda into threatening to throw the cops at our community, and are punishing Banda for even convening our task force at all. Furthermore, the issues around jobs have still not even begun to be addressed. Furthermore, it isn´t right that the school districts new school enrollment zone maps seem to have been drawn primarily for the interests of real estate speculators rather than students, parents and educators. It isn´t right that these speculators want to profit by removing all working class people from the Central Area, starting with the removal of Black working people in particular. NONE OF THIS IS RIGHT! AND THAT IS WHY THE HORACE MANN BUILDING IS NOW PROTECTED BY THE MORE 4 MANN COALITION´S COMMUNITY PICKET LINE!