[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] Solidarity Event for the 26, 000 Striking Chicago Teachers!!!

[Colan Holmes]

The teachers strike is a fight for improving education in the face of
vulture capitalists' ideological campaign to undercut it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IxVYFm2g9CM

Here is the educators plan of how to educate:
http://www.ctunet.com/quest-center/research/the-schools-chicagos-students-deserve

Solidarity,
Chandler

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Luis Damián Reyes Rodríguez <
ldamian21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To all:
>
> Everyone who feels deeply disturbed by E. Wayne Johnson's ranting should
> try to make it to the meeting this Wednesday at 7pm in Lincoln Hall 1028.
> CTU member Kimberly Bowsky will be Skyping in.
>
> Kim teaches at the William H Seward Elementary School on Chicago's South
> Side. Within the CTU, Kim is an activist of the Caucus of Rank-and-File
> Educators.
>
> Now, to E.W.J.:
> *
> Don't even try to bring your disruptive presence this Wednesday: you will
> not be welcome in this event. *
> Perhaps in a parallel universe where Ron Paul rules your bullying
> attitudes are the norm. Not here.
>
> And maybe in that parallel universe, where you seem to hang out too often,
> the news have not arrived yet that the +26,000 CTU members overwhelmingly
> favored strike action: around 90% of members voted, with 98% of voters in
> favor—after a law was passed that raised the minimum requirement to 75%!
> And have you even bothered to find out what the communities affected by the
> budget cuts and school closures have to say? They also support the strike
> in big numbers. Why, then, should the CTU change leadership?
> Because CTU teachers are a bunch of fat cats?
> Really?
>
> The only thing that makes sense in your ranting is that "this could get
> ugly" in Chicago.
> I hope, for the better, that people like you stay away there too.
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigsqq.org> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Not even Air Conditioning?  Zomfg!!!  Hoodathunkit?
>> I know, I know.  An environment "Conducive to Learning".  Sort of a
>> Mantra it is.
>> See also: "It's for the Kids".  Are we convinced yet?
>>
>> While I am highly sympathetic with the situation and plight of the
>> Graduate Teaching Assistants, and
>> once upon a time, came out and spoke in their favour, I have less than
>> Zero Minus sympathy
>> for the fat cats that comprise the CTU.
>>
>> I understand that the goal is a) to head off some sort of precedent
>> effect and b) precipitate a serious crisis.
>>
>> While I would certainly not want to work or live in Chicago or its public
>> school system even
>> 9 nanoseconds per year let alone the whole school year, I should not feel
>> convinced that the CTU are the good guys
>> in this struggle, even though their direct opponents are likely neither
>> nice nor good.
>>
>> Perhaps one of the smartest moves the CTU could make is to quickly remove
>> its leadership and apologise.
>>
>> Like that is going to happen.
>>
>> I am sure that I am highly confused and understand the matter very
>> poorly, but I
>> don't think that Old Mother pHubbard is hoarding a vast trove of bones in
>> her cupboard
>> for these CTU dogs (cats).
>>
>> This could get Ugly, and the outcome is uncertain.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/11/2012 4:06 AM, Daniel Werst wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I am a member of the campus branch of the International Socialist
>> Organization, and we are holding a meeting this week on Wednesday at 7
>> PM to build solidarity action for the 26,000 Chicago teachers who are
>> currently on strike against efforts by the city to make them easier to fire
>> based on standardized test results while the district chooses not to
>> provide many students with art or music classes, AP classes, decent class
>> sizes, or even air conditioning!
>>
>>
>> We have lined up a CTU teacher to speak by Skype, and we have also spoken
>> to the Graduate Employees Union here at U of I, who will provide the second
>> speaker. The GEO is fighting back against attacks on the pay and working
>> conditions of Teaching Assistants who are commonly forced to live on
>> $14,000 a year while handling big classes and making the university work.
>>
>>
>> Our second goal is to car pool to Chicago this Saturday to join thousands
>> of teachers, students, parents, and labor activists in a rally. Hopefully
>> they will be celebrating a victory in the strike or else continuing the
>> struggle and only getting stronger! This meeting should bring together as
>> many supporters of labor and people concerned for good public education as
>> possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> CTU Solidarity Rally:
>>
>> Wednesday September 12th at 7PM
>> 1028 Lincoln Hall on Campus
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In Solidarity,
>> Daniel Werst
>>
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> Damián.
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