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Chicagoans prepare to take back their city
"Imagine what a community would look like that you and your children deserve and what are you willing to do to bring that to fruition."-----Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) activist Tara Stamps Chicago...
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Brown v. Board Of Education at 60: Where is the compliance?
“The night the 1954 Brown decision to desegregate schools was announced, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund threw a party. Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had worked on the case was...
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Fight for $15 in Chicago: Revolt in a Global City
“I am here to remind America that it is a crime to live in this great nation and to receive starvation wages. At McDonalds $8.25 an hour, what I make is about $400 every two weeks. With that salary I...
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School turnarounds : Turning against racial justice
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) leadership is doing exactly the opposite of what both community activists and researchers have shown to be the most effective ways of improving public schools. School...
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High Stakes Testing: The new child labor
“Exploited without regard to their tender years, countless youngsters were working under conditions constantly fraught with danger to life and limb…The blight of child labor was widely prevalent, in...
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Chicagoans join together to ice the ISAT standardized test
“Standardized testing encourages rigid scripted teach-to-the-test curricula devoid of educational exploration. The human element that makes great teaching and engaged learning is ruthlessly crushed...
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Of Nightmares and Watersheds
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity...
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Education Apartheid: A West Side Chicago Story
“The massive school closings that have been part of CPS’s broader strategy dating back to the 1990s have drastic consequences: they tear apart school communities, disrupt deep and strong relationships...
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Fired Chicago sandwich workers continue the struggle!
“When Snarf’s workers are under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back!” "When the working class is under attack? What do we do? Stand up fight back" The chants rang out at noon on January 8 2014...
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Chicago sandwich workers fired 3 days before Christmas
Workers at a Snarf’s Sandwiches, located inside of the Groupon Building on Chicago's North Side, received a nasty surprise on the night of December 22. Based on an e-mail they received, they logged...
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Climbing Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands
As mountain ranges go, the Scottish Highlands are not very high. None of its mountains top more than 4409 ft (1344m). In contrast Mt. Mitchell in the southern Appalachians is 6,684 feet (2,037m)....
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A Chicagoland Black Friday Diary
It was a cold clear Chicagoland morning with a sharply defined crescent moon hanging above the apartment complex in front of my Oak Park IL home. It was November 29th. Black Friday. A day devoted to...
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Fight for $15: The New War on Poverty
“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.”-- Nelson MandelaThe USA has a new War on Poverty, but this one is not led by...
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A Child’s Paradise Lost
“Every tree has its enemy, few have an advocate. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies”.---- J.R.R. TolkienIt was the largest tree my seven year old eyes had ever seen....
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Colorful balloons and courageous resistance
"I'm proud that this Neighborhood Schools Fair came from neighborhood parents--- from neighborhood moms. And that they invited people from all over the city to be involved."--- Kim Bowsky, Chicago...
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The Turnaround: race, class and masculinity
I was 4 chapters into the George Pelecanos crime fiction novel The Turnaround when a sudden chill ran down my spine. Omigod, this is the story of the Ken-Gar 5. I had to put the book down as my mind...
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The Perfect Storm that is engulfing our biosphere.
There is a Perfect Storm engulfing the biosphere, the convergence of neo-liberalism, climate change and militarism. It is many times more devastating then the one of book and movie fame.In October of...
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Is Fight for $15 making unions cool again?
"I think what's very amazing about this campaign and what a lot of people have not really talked about is that it is making the union movement cool again."---Lorraine Chavez of Fight for $15It was a...
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Fight for $15 and the heroes in company uniforms
“What’s disgusting? Unionbusting! What’s outrageous? Poverty wages!”---a chant often heard at Fight for $15 actionsSometimes heroes come dressed in company uniforms: perhaps MacDonald’s, or maybe...
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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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