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Around 85 students and organizers from across the country joined community members and risked arrest by re-entering Martin Luther King Elementary School in the devastated Lower 9th Ward today. The cleanup, which began on thursday, had been stopped late friday by the NOPD. Outside the school, a crowd of around 300 gathered wearing Tyvek suits and respirators, holding hand painted signs and chanting to oncoming traffic. In an ongoing effort to rebuild New Orleans, residents of the Lower Ninth Ward requested that these supporters clean the school out.
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