Letters

The UFT Humane Education Committee has joined Equine Welfare Alliance’s Youth Letter-Writing Campaign which is designed to “amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption” through passage of H.R. 2966 and S. 1176.

I am a proud UFT member who attended the voting rights rally on Dec. 10. I was proud to march for Ruthelle Frank of Brokaw, Wis.

A lot of residents in Cobble Hill do not like the idea of Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy being shoved down our throats. Moskowitz can learn a thing or two from the operators of Brooklyn Prospect. When faced with community opposition to their temporary location on Hicks Street, they found an alternative.

Wall Street “greed” is not the sole problem. Wall Street, too, is a victim of Washington, D.C. If the protestors want to get to the source of Wall Street’s problems, look to our government that deliberately does not: enforce trading rules; punish brokers and corporations for breaking laws and bails out corporations.

I was appalled to read in the Oct. 27 issue of the New York Teacher the article “Passing muster: Lane campus junior ROTC cadets noted for good grades, good citizenship.” There is even a video of the program on the UFT website.

Each year, it seems that more and more businesses are choosing to be open on Thanksgiving Day, a national holiday. It’s a day to gather with family and friends to give thanks for the many blessings which we have received. It is very unfair for businesses, including supermarkets and other retail food outlets, to be open on this day.

Congratulations to the retirees who went to Ohio for a great victory in that state to protect collective-bargaining rights of teachers and other workers. Also, congratulations to the hundreds of retirees who made many thousands of phone calls to Ohio to get out the vote for collective-bargaining rights and its preservation.

The new film “MoneyBall” — based on the book by Michael Lewis, starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of a baseball team who decides to look at data in a new way — says something about data, how we retrieve it, interpret it and act upon it.

I commend Michael Mulgrew for joining Occupy Wall Street in pointing out the inequities in the American economic system. Now we need to organize politically to make changes. However, when you headline “UFT members march on Wall Street to condemn corporate greed” [Oct. 13], we should be aware that most businessmen are not greedy.