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CORE Endorses Occupy Chicago

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 – 8:12 pm

CORE members present at the October 3rd CORE general meeting voted unanimously to endorse Occupy Chicago — the local version of a nationwide movement that began in New York and spread across the country. Occupiers have taken over Chicago’s financial district. The mission statement of the organization, according to their website is to … fight [...]

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CORE Meeting-Monday July 26th

Monday, July 19, 2010 – 7:29 pm

CORE Meeting Monday, July 26th 5:00-7:00 PM Operation PUSH 930 East 50th Street Chicago, IL 60615

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Save Our Schools Summit-This Saturday (7/24)

Monday, July 19, 2010 – 7:28 pm

Will your neighborhood school be next on the Board of Education’s chopping block? The Board has already… ELIMINATED after-school and sports programs, CUT over 200 citywide teachers (special services, literacy coaches, hospital teachers, and more), REDUCED world language classes, …and plans to: INCREASE high school class sizes, DECREASE the number of electives offered to our students, and FIRE more [...]

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“Honorably Terminated” Teachers Organize!

Saturday, July 3, 2010 – 9:23 am

Report by John Kugler On Tuesday, June 29th, Operation PUSH hosted a meeting for CPS literacy coaches, IDS coaches, and other citywide staff who have been terminated by CPS. Appropriately 100 of these  tenured teachers were denied placement in the reassignment pool because of their citywide status. I assisted these teachers through the grievance process [...]

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Organizing Meetings for Displaced and Honorably Discharged Teachers

Monday, June 28, 2010 – 6:38 pm

When: Tuesdays 6 PM Where: Operation PUSH 930 E. 50th St, Chicago.

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CORE to ride in this Friday’s Critical Mass

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – 1:32 pm

From chicagocriticalmass.org: Critical Mass is a bike ride plain and simple. The ride takes place on the Last Friday Of Every Month. A Critical Mass is created when the group of riders comes together for those few hours to take back the streets of our city. The right of the people to assemble is guaranteed [...]

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CORE Meetings Coming Up…

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – 1:23 pm

Manny’s Deli 1141 S. Jefferson June 28th and July 13th 4:00 PM

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President-Elect Karen Lewis takes aim at mayoral control and Renaissance 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010 – 5:24 pm

From The Chicago Sun-Times: …[A]s teachers union president, [Karen Lewis] is aiming for the top once again — right for Daley. She has her sights set on the mayor’s piggy bank of tax increment financing funds. She calls his pet education project, Renaissance 2010, “a disaster.” “He’s had 15 years of reform…” “All we ever [...]

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Summer of Organizing

Thursday, June 17, 2010 – 5:55 pm

Dear Members: In these final days of the school year, make a list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses of teachers at your school. Talk to your students’ parents and get their contact information as well. We need your help in organizing this summer. Download the spreadsheet at the bottom of this post and e-mail [...]

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Report from Emergency Board Meeting 6.15.2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 – 6:34 pm

CPS called  an emergency Board meeting on Tuesday, June 15 to pass a resolution that will drastically change our working conditions and the learning opportunities for our students.  The resolution was passed unanimously at the meeting, in spite of every single speaker during the “public participation” portion urging the board members to vote “no.” This [...]

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