[OccupyCU] Fw: Support Builds for Chicago Teachers - Labor Beat on YouTube

[David Johnson]

Larry,

We are working on sponsoring an event in Champaign-Urbana for a speaking delegation of representatives of the Chicago Teachers Union for either Saturday Aug. 18th or Saturday Aug. 25th.
We are coordinating with both IEA and IFT Teacher's and Support Staff Unions, The GEO Graduate employees Union, as well as IEA and IFT Local Unions in Danville. WE are also begining outreach to IEA and IFT Unions in Bloomington, Charleston and Decatur.
Would Labor Beat be interested in coming down and filming this in Champaign ?

Let me know

David Johnson
217-721-0583

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From: Larry Duncan 
To: Larry Duncan 
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 10:13 AM
Subject: Support Builds for Chicago Teachers - Labor Beat on YouTube







Support Builds for Chicago Teachers


On YouTube:
http://youtu.be/XavDZ1l2XaA


In the weeks leading up to the start of the Fall 2012 semester for Chicago Public Schools, preparations continue on both sides of the class divide for a possible teachers strike. But it looks like momentum is shifting toward the Chicago Teachers Union, as community support builds, and the CTU's huge membership has voted to authorize a strike if needed. In the first half of this 25 min. video we visit a lively rally in front of CPS headquarters, where CTU VP Jesse Sharkey eloquently describes the change to the offensive. Parent and community anger at the Board is now palpable. Then, with the aid of CTU Organizer Matthew Luskin, we look further into this phenomenon, including a July 11 press conference by the newly-formed Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign, and the budget hearings on that day. 


Then the second half of this video in earnest delves into the issue of the TIF 'fiddle' perpetrated upon the public schools by powerful people in the City, including, it looks like, members of the CPS Board. The end result has been that tax funds that should have gone to the public schools have been diverted into investments for developers. For example, Penny Pritzker, billionaire and appointed member of the school board, is the beneficiary of $5.2 million TIF funds going toward the building of her new Hyatt hotel. Could this be why Pritzker, and her other business chums on the CPS board, aren't interested in protesting that the city should fund the public schools with those taxes, even though these board members are supposed to be the stewards of public education in Chicago? Length: 25 min.


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Matthew Luskin, CTU organizer, asks embarrassing questions about TIFs
at budget hearing on July 11. photo: Dave Vance/Labor Beat



School board member/billionaire Pritzker and her pal David Vitale. 
If the schools don't get TIF tax funds they're entitled to, that's fine with them.
photo: Dave Vance/Labor Beat



CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey tells July 25 rally "They've had
to climb off their bulldozer and talk to us."
photo: Dave Vance/Labor Beat


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