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UFT vows more support for “Occupy” protests after crackdown

Today’s biggest news story — the city’s crackdown on “Occupy” protesters occupying Zuccotti Park — got some of its legs from inside United Federation of Teachers headquarters.

The UFT has been hosting support for the protesters for some time in its Lower Manhattan offices, just blocks from epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. That won’t stop, according to UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

Here’s what Mulgrew said in a statement just now:

Occupy Wall Street isn’t a place – it’s an idea, a movement that has brought national and international focus to the danger to our economy and our nation that we face because of growing