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Sunday, November 20, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Video: the drummers from Occupy Wall St. and Norman Siegel gather around the corner from Bloomberg's residence #ows

NYC Public School Parents: Video: the drummers from Occupy Wall St. and Norman Siegel gather around the corner from Bloomberg's residence:

Video: the drummers from Occupy Wall St. and Norman Siegel gather around the corner from Bloomberg's residence

This afternoon, I went to see the drummers who, after being kicked out of Zuccotti Park, decided to protest outside Bloomberg's townhouse on E. 79 St. Sadly, the police blocked off the street, but the drummers gathered anyway on 5th avenue next to Central Park instead.

As you will see in the video below, I bumped into my hero, Norman Siegel, who told us that barring the drummers from E. 79 St. was a violation of their first amendment rights. In fact, in January 2010, Norman sued the city on behalf of teachers and parents, and we gained the right to march on the south side of 79 St.., to