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Corporate America wants inexperienced teachers in schools
It's true! The big money people want to put the rookie squad into our classrooms. Corporate funded attacks on public education and teachers’ unions have portrayed higher paid, more experienced...
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Chicago teachers take to the streets---in 1933
"When America’s great crisis is a story in the pages of history, there will be a significant chapter devoted to the unfailing sacrifice of the Chicago teachers, who are now carrying on under...
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The U.S. Postal Service is essential to our democracy
The free exchange of ideas is critical to representative government and was one of the reasons why the US Postal Service(USPS) was created. At its founding the Postal Service had a deliberate policy...
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Chicago teachers join warehouse workers to confront Walmart
The chants rang out across Vincennes Ave in the Chatham neighborhood of South Side Chicago: "1-2-3-4 No one should be working poor!5-6-7-8 Come on Walmart, play it straight! We're working...
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7 days that shook the Windy City: Chicago's teacher strike
"The CTU is teaching the USA a lesson in working class love and solidarity. It’s a transformational moment for the membership of the CTU and its allies. How can they transform the horn honks, the...
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Chicago in the 1960s: Black teachers revolt against racism
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) organizer Brandon Johnson, who is a black man, recently spoke about a conversation he had with veteran black educator Dr. Grady Jordan about racism in the schools today....
View ArticleWhy all of the hoopla about voter fraud?
There has been very little of the old fashioned voter fraud in recent history, even in Chicago, a city I am very familiar with. I was a poll watcher in some bitterly contested Chicago elections. My...
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Don Moore 1942-2012: A lion who roared for public schools
“Don Moore was the most persistent, thoughtful, smart advocate I know,” said Anne Hallett, director of the Grow Your Own teacher preparation program. “He would get his teeth into something and not let...
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My Chicagoland Black Friday in words and pictures
As I was writing this blog post on Sunday, news came from the Associated Press about the real human cost of our Black Fridays:“DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — At least 112 people were killed in a fire that...
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The 2nd Amendment and the Enforcement of Tyranny
What is not often talked about in regards to the 2nd Amendment and its "well regulated militia" is that one of its original purposes was to enforce tyranny. In order to maintain the vast slave empire,...
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Fight for $15! Cuz we can’t survive on $8.25
It was a cold clear Saturday morning on a late December day when I got off the CTA Green Line and walked toward the St. James Cathedral to join with members of the Workers Organizing Committee of...
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The West Side of Chicago says NO! to school closings
“Listening to person after person eloquently, yet desperately, plead for their schools not to be closed during the Austin-North Lawndale Network school utilization hearing on Jan. 31 brought forth, to...
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My old neighborhood is now multi-racial. At last.
The old neighborhood is the one people moved away from long ago, some with a firm grasp on its bygone realities, but for others their warmed over memories are coated with a gooey nostalgia. Not that...
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Chicago’s deadly border crossings: Lives in the balance
There are no barbed wire adorned border walls. You won’t see unsmiling heavily armed solders toting automatic weapons as you wait nervously in a long line for clearance to cross over. You won’t have...
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The Chicago school closings: Finding truth amidst the lies
“Closing 50 of our neighborhood schools is outrageous and no society that claims to care anything about its children can sit back and allow this to happen to them. There is no way people of conscience...
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The Lost Woods of Rachel Carson
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the...
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Keep Pope alive: A small school fights for survival
A cacophony of young voices competed with the low whistle of a cold wind on a gray Chicago spring day as children skipped down the sidewalk in front of Pope Elementary. The school is located across...
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Why is Corporate America inciting violence in Chicago?
“At times like this when CPS [Chicago Public Schools] is making an attempt to close the most schools at one time in the nation, I don’t think you need another Columbine or Connecticut or another...
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Uptown Uprising and the Right to the City
"The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual...
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Chicagoans go to court to stop racist school closings
"Since 2001, defendants have carried out school closings so as to contribute to a form of racial and economic segregation, as destructive as older forms of intentional racial segregation."--- McDaniel...
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