[Peace-discuss] FW: The CTU and the 2015 Chicago City Hall Election - Labor Beat YouTube video

Wed Nov 19 15:27:55 EST 2014

From: Larry Duncan [mailto:larryd63 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 1:49 PM
To: Larry Duncan
Subject: The CTU and the 2015 Chicago City Hall Election - Labor Beat
YouTube video

The CTU and the 2015 Chicago City Hall Election

On YouTube at:

 <http://youtu.be/fUDwSzqPAJw> http://youtu.be/fUDwSzqPAJw

Also archived at:

laborbeat.org <http://laborbeat.org/> 

Historic, complicated, dramatic. These are some of the adjectives used about
the lead-up to Karen Lewis's anticipated run for Chicago mayor against
union-buster Rahm Emanuel. And the weeks just after Karen's announced brain
cancer and withdrawal from the race bumped all of these adjectives up to
another exponential level.

Labor Beat looks at the background, with new and exclusive footage, to the
"run Karen run" movement and the sudden turn of events in the Fall of 2014.
We show scenes from 'discussions with Karen' in Uptown where she describes
her relationship with the Democratic Party; the startling announcement at
the L.E.A.D. union dinner on October 31 that Karen was 'passing the torch'
to Democrat Chuy Garcia (Cook County Commissioner); our archival footage
comparing how mayoral candidate endorsements were democratically done back
in 2010; an interview with a delegate just leaving a contentious CTU House
of Delegates meeting on Nov. 5 that debated whether to rubber-stamp Karen's
abrupt Garcia endorsement.

We also look at certain aldermanic races for the Feb. 2015 city hall
election, getting some interviews and speeches from a handful of labor-based
independent candidates who have either in their campaigns or to Labor Beat
declared that they are neither Democratic or Republican. At the time of the
completion of this video, none of these candidates are yet officially on the
ballot, as they work to gather specified numbers of validated petition
signatures in a difficult process set up by the election commission. (Tammie
Vinson, 28th Ward; Jorge Mujica, 25th Ward; Tim Meegan, 33rd Ward; Sue
Sadlowski Garza, 10th Ward.)

A running commentary by labor activist Linda Loew (member of AFSCME 1989)
places these developments in perspective: are we seeing in this the seeds of
a new political party of labor and its allies, fundamentally breaking from
the Democratic Party?

The video is also narrated by the Chicago-area radio voice of Dale Lehman.
Length - 25:49

Karen Lewis (L), about a week before she was hospitalized and had to
withdraw 

from the mayoral race. What are the consequences of the complicated turn of

events that ensued? Photo: Steve Dalber / Labor Beat

CTU member and delegate Ed Hershey just after a contentious CTU House of

Delegates meeting on Nov. 5 that endorsed Democrat Chuy Garcia for Mayor. 

Photo: David Vance / Labor Beat

CTU executive board member Tammie Vinson gets petitions signed to get on the

ballot for Alderwoman in 28th Ward. Vinson is tired of "lesser of two evils"
and

is running as an independent. Photo: Larry Duncan / Labor Beat

Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner, and member
of the Evanston Community Media Center. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3)
member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info:
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www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit YouTube
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