Posts tagged “garbage strike”

  1. A Poem About the Garbage Strike of 1996, by a Ten-Year-Old

    By Jaya Saxena and Matt Lubchansky

    in Poetry

    In 1996, New York City’s maintenance workers went on strike. This is one ten-year-old’s take on the impending chaos.

    [sic everything]

    They garbage will be everywhere

    city will be garbage

    No trucks

    …

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