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Cranky calls
May 22, 2008 10:45 AM
A Lower East Side-Chinatown town hall meeting on May 16 featured UFT President Randi Weingarten, who joined community residents, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and more than a dozen City Council members at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen School on Hester Street to blast the mayor and his cuts. Those who turned out for the event took out their cell phones and called the mayor in unison at the 800 number provided by the UFT to protest the cuts. below: Participants dial the mayor’s number. inset: Silver addresses the group.
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