TEAM ROMNEY is not cheap, if you compare what he is paying his campaign staff. The line reads: “the president appears to be getting a much bigger bang for his buck.” That’s true. If you think underpaying campaign workers is laudable, which I don’t. From the Los Angeles Times: According to an analysis by the [...]
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Progressive Change Runs Ad Supporting Teachers [Update: Union Votes to End Strike]
In it, teachers make clear, “We need books. We need air conditioners. When there’s 40 students in a classroom, each student’s not going to get the individual attention they need to succeed.” A parent adds, “This isn’t about politics. It’s about my kids.” – Progressive Change Campaign Committee WORKING TO help teachers striking in Chicago, [...]
News Desk: Teachers Stay Out, Rahm Seeks Injunction ['Call Me Maybe' Video Update]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is threatening to go to court today to end the Chicago teachers strike after union delegates decided to extend the walkout at least two more days while they review a tenative deal. Emanuel called the walkout “illegal” and pledged late Sunday to seek an injunction in court to force an end to [...]
News Desk: Mayor Emanuel, Karen Lewis & Teachers Union Reach Tentative Agreement
NO DETAILS, but it’s back to school on Monday, providing everything goes well on Sunday. Looks like Rahm met his match. For parents and teachers fed up with the pressures of high-stakes standardized tests – and the literal heat of unairconditioned classrooms – the Chicago Teachers Union president is a superhero. With the strike in [...]
‘We Have a Considerable Way to Go’ – Chicago Teachers Union
The third day of the Chicago teachers strike is underway. Yesterday the union expressed surprise at Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s claim that a deal that would end the dispute was “close.” From The Guardian: ‘The Chicago Teachers Union has 49 Articles in its contract (and) to date we have only signed off on six of them,’ [...]
News Desk: Chicago Sun-Times Reports Registered Voters Backing Teachers
Just under half of Chicago’s registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute. – Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike [...]
Students and Parents Join Teachers in Chicago Streets
See the video below for Amy Goodman’s report on day two of the teachers’ strike in Chicago. School is out in Chicago for a second day as public school teachers continue their first strike in 25 years. Almost 30,000 teachers and their support staff have walked out over reforms sought by the city’s powerful Mayor, [...]
Paul Ryan Backs Rahm Emanuel on Teachers Strike
“Rahm and I have not agreed on every issue or on a lot of issues, but Mayor Emanuel is right today in saying that this teacher’s union strike is unnecessary and wrong.” – Paul Ryan IT’S THE POLITICAL play of the union story so far and the one Mitt Romney should have made, but couldn’t [...]
Day Two of Chicago Teachers Union Strike
THE ANSWER to the question asked during the strike’s first day on Monday was answered in Wisconsin by Democrats who fielded an anti-union candidate in Tom Barrett. It was seconded during President Obama’s first term when he put no weight behind EFCA. But it shouldn’t be discounted the support in the jobs act for police [...]
Does Mitt Romney Know Pres. Obama’s Education Reform Agenda?
“I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city’s public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education. Teachers unions have too often made [...]
News Desk: Chicago Teachers Strike
From NPR: No Deal: Chicago Teachers To Strike After Contract Talks Fail Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has said, “No [Chicago Teachers Union] members will be inside of our schools Monday,” after contract negotiations failed to reach a deal that would prevent a labor strike, the Chicago Tribune reports. … As Becky Vevea reported [...]
Did Chick-Fil-A Lie to the Public?
“Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values. They disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents. This would be a bad investment, since it would be empty.” – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel IT’S BOSTON MAYOR Thomas Menino, who has vowed to keep his city Chick-fil-A-free, versus religious conservative Mike Huckabee, who’s having an Chick-Fil-A Bigots Appreciation Day. This [...]
Brewing Beer or Manufacturing Molotov Cocktails?: Welcome to ‘Preemptive Policing’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Can you tell the difference between beer brewing equipment and Molotov cocktail building equipment? A middle of the night raid by the Chicago PD raises that question. The raid was one piece of the several days of actions immediately before and during the NATO Summit, [...]
Chipping Away at the Wall of Money
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. This is probably one of the busiest months in a long while, for advocacy / activist groups, Occupy and others. It’s extremely difficult to break through the Wall of Money, and the incessant electoral politics “news” it funds. Depending on MSM, you’d likely miss most [...]
SCOTUS Okays Strip Searches for Minor Offenses, and Camp David G8 Kettling Begins
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Filed under, “decisions that limit your civil rights,” one by the Supreme Court and a second by the Secret Service. From NPR: Supreme Court OKs Strip Searches For Minor Offenses The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that guards may routinely strip search even minor traffic [...]
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