{"id":38,"name":"Marc Pessin","url":"","description":"<strong>Marc Pessin<\/strong> is a community activist who serves in a number of organizations in Rockland County, NY, such as the Board of Directors of the Martin Luther King Multipurpose Center and the Steering Committee of the Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow; Marc is the treasurer of the Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts and a member of Rockland Socialist Study Group. He was a Social Studies teacher for a total of 51 years in New York City public schools and in Rockland County. In NYC, Marc co-founded the New Directions Caucus, which helped to build a rank-and-file opposition to the conservative leadership of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT).  He also served as a Delegate and\/or Chapter Leader in the UFT. He helped to initiate a lawsuit, <em>Gulino vs. New York City Board of Education<\/em>, which supported Black and Latinx teachers in their efforts to fight discriminatory teacher tests (NTE and LAST).  After 25 years of struggle, this suit led to the largest damages payout in NYC history and a two-billion-dollar victory for people of color.","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/author\/marc_pessin\/","slug":"marc_pessin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6ed9f6d99b0369e09e254242701820b8c78d775d1eee859c31237fec226d52b?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6ed9f6d99b0369e09e254242701820b8c78d775d1eee859c31237fec226d52b?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6ed9f6d99b0369e09e254242701820b8c78d775d1eee859c31237fec226d52b?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}