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Low Wage Workers Strike in Chicago for 'Dignity and Respect' and a Living Wage | Common Dreams

Low Wage Workers Strike in Chicago for 'Dignity and Respect' and a Living Wage | Common Dreams
"“Workers across the country are tired. We’re tired of working hard, but not earning enough to support our families,” said Krystal Collins, a Macy’s worker. “After seeing the workers in New York say they weren’t going to take it anymore, we were inspired to go on strike right here in Chicago"."

Live: Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Standardized Test | Common Dreams

Live: Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Standardized Test | Common Dreams
"Hundreds of Chicago students are taking up the mantle in the fight against the roll of standardized tests in public school closures as they walked out of state exam Wednesday. Their message: "We are over-tested, under-resourced and fed up"!"

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Willing to Risk Arrest to Protect Public Education | Alternet

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Willing to Risk Arrest to Protect Public Education | Alternet
"Last Wednesday, thousands of Chicagoans turned out to demonstrate against school closures — 127 were detained and ticketed."

Arrests at Chicago schools protest | Common Dreams

Arrests at Chicago schools protest | Common Dreams
"More than 100 demonstrators taking part in mass civil disobedience were arrested inChicago on Wednesday as several thousand people marched against the largest proposed round of school closings in recent memory."

Chicago Is Ground Zero for Disastrous "Free Market" Reforms of Education | Common Dreams

Chicago Is Ground Zero for Disastrous "Free Market" Reforms of Education | Common Dreams
"If you want a glimpse of what slash-and-burn free market education reform does in cities throughout the US, look no further than Chicago."

Chicago Teachers: We Will 'Put Our Bodies on the Line' to Fight School Closures | Common Dreams

Chicago Teachers: We Will 'Put Our Bodies on the Line' to Fight School Closures | Common Dreams
"he mass closings of more than 50 schools in Chicago is being met with outrage by the city's teachers, parents and students and an analysis shows that the 'uncompromising' move by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel will cost the city as much—if not more—than the plan purports to save."

Rahm Shortchanges Public Schools, Showers Charters With Cash

Rahm Shortchanges Public Schools, Showers Charters With Cash
"Matt Farmer on Huffington Post with a story that's a illustrative of the kinds of issues Chicago teachers are striking over: how Rahm Emanuel is siphoning off the money from public schools and giving it to the politically-connected, for-profit "reformers" -- while public schools have inadequate resources, overcrowded classrooms and leaky roofs. He's also willing to switch out the bulk of the Chicago public schools for a system that we already know isn't any better, because it benefits the political and financial agenda of his corporate cronies:"

Chicago Teachers Swiftboated by For-Profit Charter School Operator

Chicago Teachers Swiftboated by For-Profit Charter School Operator
"As Susie wrote yesterday, Chicago teachers are on strike. The right wing is already jumping on this as another excuse to claim that teachers are greedy people who just want to be lazy while milking the system.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. What is happening in Chicago has been brewing for a very, very long time, and it's not about what teachers are paid, though the prevailing wisdom about that is wrong, too.

Chicago teachers are striking to prevent a corporate takeover of public education. The line is drawn right here. This is not about pay but it is about job security. It is about children, and the right of every child in this nation to receive an education without corporate influence."

Chicago teachers are facing down big money and political power to fight for better schools

Chicago teachers are facing down big money and political power to fight for better schools
"Chicago teachers are fighting not just for fair pay and decent health care but for a host of things that will improve education for Chicago kids—smaller classes, needed books and teaching materials, comfortable and well-maintained schools. But they're running into a buzz saw of well-organized, well-funded opposition from the massive anti-teacher, pro-corporateeducation policy world."

Chicago Teachers Take Stand Against Corporate Education Reform | Common Dreams

Chicago Teachers Take Stand Against Corporate Education Reform | Common Dreams
"Embattled Democratic Mayor Rahm Emmanuel called the teachers' action "a strike of choice," but opponents of the mayor's corporate education reform agenda respond by saying that the policies proposed are simply destroying public education in the city and, because of Chicago's connection to President Obama, the impact of the resistance to such measures has national implications."