Category Archives: Protests
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
President-Elect Karen Lewis on Chicago Tonight
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
New CTU Leadership, teachers, parents at Emergency Picket 6/14/2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Video: Save Our Schools Rally May 25, 2010
Video of of the 5/25/2010 Save Our Schools rally and march featuring CORE Candidates Karen Lewis (President) and Jesse Sharkey (Vice President)
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thousands rally against the school budget cuts.
In a display of unity that is uncommon in an election season, all five caucuses of the CTU came together to march against Huberman’s threats of ballooning class sizes to 35 and major cuts to educational programs. Koco, Teachers for Social Justice, Pilsen Alliance, Blocks Together, and other GEM partners organized students, parents, and community [...]
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Save Our Schools! Massive Rally to Save Public Education May 25th, Board of Education 125 South Clark
Download this flyer and distribute to teachers, parents, and other community members.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
CORE Takes CPS’ lack of transparency to Attorney General Lisa Madigan…and wins!
From CORE Co-Chair Jackson Potter:
On April 28th, the Grassroots Education Movement, CORE and more than 50 teachers from 10 different schools throughout the city held a press conference in front of the State of Illinois building to force the Chicago Public Schools to adhere to the Freedom of Information Act. The gathering spoke first about [...]
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
CORE-A Video Resume VOTE CORE on June 11th
CORE FOR CTU Ad on Vimeo.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
No More Cuts! If you aren’t CROOKS…OPEN THE BOOKS!
Tell Data-man Huberman:
NO CUTS! OPEN THE BOOKS!
ALL BUDGET DATA ON THE TABLE NOW!
Rally 4 p.m. / Press Conference 10 a.m.
Wednesday April 28th, 2010
We’ve seen the raises for Huberman and his friends …
we’re supposed to just trust him on the rest?
4 p.m. RALLY! Ask IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan to fast-track data [...]
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Monday, February 22, 2010
CORE and GEM Take it to City Council
From PURE:
Today’s Education Committee hearing ended up being quite a show! Several aldermen gave scathing accounts of their view of R2010, and Alderman Munoz forced the committee chair to change her mind and hear public testimony from a small representation of the many folks who came out to support the R2010 school closing moratorium. It [...]
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Feeling Nostalgic
Remember the January Board of Education Meeting?
GEM mobilized this massive protest against the Chicago Board of Education to end Renaissance 2010. For the first time, 6 schools were saved from phase-out, consolidation, turnaround, and closing.
The struggle is not over. The Board has just voted to push out Pulaski Fine Arts Academy from its own building, [...]