." >> the book by naomi klein. >> yes, and it put in perspective what these people were doing and howhey amassed this power over the last 30 years. then all of this started in chicago at the business school, right? so we started just trying to take off small bites of the apple by going to the school closing hearings, demanding the board of education come to these hearings. they were not. again, we have been appointed new world control board that are not accountable to anyone, and certainly not accountable to the community. when the committee would come and beg for their schools -- this is one of the saddest things. children, teachers, and that such teachers at first, but parents and community members begged for their schools. and that fell on deaf ears. people felt completely at empowered that if the decision was made, it was made and there was nothing you could do about it. in the first year we started, we got six schools take the hit list. that had never happened before. we change the way the board of education did things. the school board came to the schools. we said, he should com