Come meet up with Four Starz and Wobblies for a Day Without a Teacher! Look for this
banner and our red-n-black contingent. :) ---- Location: Plaza Tenochtitlan (18th and Blue
Island) Time: 1:45 Rally, March begins promptly at 2:15 ---- Payback time: Occupy,
Anarchist groups return favors to Chicago Teachers Union Posted by Anne Sorock Monday,
September 10, 2012 at 4:36pm ---- MEDIA ---- I?ve been documenting the presence of the
Chicago Teachers Union at non-education-related, radical protests over the past year. From
Occupy to Anarchist, gay pride, and anti-NATO protests, the union deploys its members not
on the basis of ?for the children? but rather for political solidarity. -- On the first
day of the strike as teachers refuse to accept merit pay and a 16 percent raise over four
years, those groups that the Chicago Teachers Union supported are repaying the favors.
Today, an Anarchist march in Chicago rallied the Four Star Anarchist Group members in
support of the teachers:
Occupy Chicago, which already conducted a march on labor day in conjunction with the
Chicago Teachers Union, is bringing its members to this afternoon?s Chicago Teachers Union
rally:
Flashback to this past June, at the Chicago Gay Pride parade, the Chicago Teachers Union?s
float featured the President and Vice President of the Union partying while members in red
shirts marched in the parade:
In the meantime, some groups are calling on President Obama to join the picket line,
citing his statement in 2007:
?And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and
collectively bargain when I?m in the White House, I?ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes
myself, I?ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the (USA). Because workers
deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.?
The CTU isn?t afraid to call in the favors of their radical leftist allies. They?ve even
put together a ?solidarity fund? on their website where they are accepting contributions:
We are asking you to support our struggle for educational justice. You and your
organization can show your support by making contribution to our Solidarity Fund. All
donations will be used to conduct broad outreach throughout Chicago and nation-wide.
It is hard to get the public to buy their message that it?s ?for the children? when the
highly paid teachers reveal that the fight is one for anything but the children. Joy
Pullman at the Heartland Institute says:
This strike hurts those who can least afford it so that teachers who earn more than
comparable workers can continue padding their benefits at the expense of kids and
taxpayers in a beyond-broke school district. What a shame.
Occupy, Anarchists, and the Chicago Teachers Union, all in solidarity, are using children
to further their radical leftist agenda.
Bron : A-infos-en@ainfos.ca