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From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and Torture
We Charge Genocide, a coalition of Chicago activists, is turning outside the US criminal justice system to force accountability for police misconduct by taking their complaints to the United …
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Want To Take Back Chicago? Here’s How, Say Activists
Our city is sold piece-by-piece to private interests.
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One Year After Closings, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?
For the low-income communities that lost a neighborhood school, the effects are still palpable one year later.
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Angela Davis Featured at National Forum on Police Crimes at University of Chicago
The National Forum held workshops highlighting police crimes against undocumented and other immigrant workers, the labor movement and all workers, the LGBTQ community, women, peace, and solidarity activists, and …
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Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization
The Chicago Board of Education has consistently voted to close schools or turn them over to private management - laying off most of the staff in the process - …
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Milking Public Education
A Teach For America teacher grows leery of the role of charter schools.
“Do What You Gotta Do”: Cop Shows Bolster Idea That Police Violence Works
What is the social impact of cop booster program “Chicago PD”? What audience - and what ends - does it serve?
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Learn From the Teachers: Chicago Strike Showed What a Union Is For
The sight of tens of thousands of striking teachers marching through the streets of Chicago in September 2012 was a much-needed shot in the arm for a sagging labor …
Chicagoans Call for Paid Sick Days
In a strong show of support, small business owners, workers, health care practitioners, parents and Chicago Aldermen rallied today at City Council for paid sick days legislation.
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Modeling the Education They Want To Be: The Great Chicago Teachers Union Transformation
Micah Uetricht's ‘Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity’ relates the stirring transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a democratically organized force for social justice.