Doorknock for Protect Chicago Budget-with the Mayor · United Working Families Join us as we knock on doors to push for support for the Protect Chicago Budget which funds youth jobs, mental health, and education by taxing rich corporations NOT raising property taxes or grocery t...

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Vets Say No - National Call · May Day Strong This Veteran's Day, we say no war on our cities. Veterans are standing up to fascism and calling on you to join us. On October 28th hear directly from veterans and our supporters on how you can take...

Join Veterans across the country tonight who are saying no to the occupation of our cities by the national guard, no to cutting Snap and medicaid, no to the assault on immigrant, labor and civil rights by federal agents. www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

This is Why Fascist Fear Educators Rick Smith’s interview with Jackson Potter, Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union, dissects the motives and momentum behind the massive “No Kings” protests and the deeper struggle over democrac...

Check out @ctulocal1.bsky.social VP @jacksonpctu.bsky.social talk #NoKings

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JB Pritzker Slams Chicago Mayor’s Plan for Tax on Big Payrolls Illinois Governor JB Pritzker assailed a plan by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to bring back a tax on large corporate payrolls, saying the proposed levy would repel major employers.

ok let me get this straight.

JB Pritzker:
- is having state cops run interference for ICE in Broadview
- cut thousands of immigrants' health insurance
- is running interference for his friends who had their taxes cut on both a corporate and individual level
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Vets Say No: Take Action to Say No War on Our Cities This Veteran’s Day · May Day Strong Stand with Veterans as we march, rally, and refuse to allow growing fascism to be normalized. **Together we say NO this Veterans Day** - no to ICE, no to occupation, no to fascism, and no to cuts stri...

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Vets Say No - National Call · May Day Strong This Veteran's Day, we say no war on our cities. Veterans are standing up to fascism and calling on you to join us. On October 28th hear directly from veterans and our supporters on how you can take...

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“Since the president declared war on the people of our city, those educators have had to not just keep up their lessons but also check on missing students, counsel those whose parents have been taken and station themselves on volunteer patrols.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Proud to stand with our @chicagosmayor.bsky.social and alderman of the 25th Ward, Byron Sigcho handing out signs to all of Chicago that prohibits ICE and federalized agents from using city property. We keep us safe.

FUNDS NOT FEDS RALLY · United Working Families Funds not Feds Rally Fight Trump’s Attacks on Chicago Fight for the People’s Budget While Billionaires Get Tax Cuts, Trump is using our tax dollars to attack our communities! Join us for a rally out...

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Stacy Davis Gates: The wheels have come off Chicago education reformers’ charter school experiment Despite the best efforts of many educators at charter schools, the charter model continues to deliver chaos.

"20 years into the experiment those entrepreneurs and their investors waged on our children, the wheels are falling off. Despite the best efforts of many educators at charter schools, the charter model continues to deliver chaos." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/o...

When the real criminals are given impunity to violate our civil and immigrant rights in return for looking the other way.

They Held a Rally for Charter Schools. Then Came the Backlash.

“Canceling classes during a school day and forcing families and students to engage in a political rally is an egregious misuse of instructional time and state funds,” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/n...

Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.

Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
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Fight the Trump Takeover · Indivisible Chicago The outrageous Texas power grab by Donald Trump and his enablers is a political emergency with national implications. Through their brazen attempt to gerrymander 5 Congressional seats into the Republi...

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A Labor Movement That Matters: From May Day to Labor Day and Beyond - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly May Day 2025 offered a glimpse of what can occur if labor movements and the community together fight the billionaire agenda.

A Labor Movement That Matters: From May Day to Labor Day and Beyond - nonprofitquarterly.org/a-labor-move...

Why Trump Keeps Losing In Court to Unions and the Workers Who Power Them Organized labor has spent decades building the infrastructure to protect the rights of workers. That work is paying off.

Welcome to the labor movement "organized labor’s popularity and enjoyment of public trust far outpaces every other institution." ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

An atrocity happening right now “I saw the severity of malnutrition that I would not have thought possible in a civilized world. This is man-made starvation being used as a weapon of war and it will lead to many more deaths unless food and aid is let in immediately.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...

Families First with SEIU and Friends in Chicago! · Families First Mobilizations On July 26, Americans in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and actions to say: our families come first—not billionaires, not authoritarians, and not corrupt ...

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Collector Ken Griffin spends $18.1m on historic US documents signed by Abraham Lincoln Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution

Can’t make this up. The billionaires are literally turning our constitutional rights, e.g. the eradication of slavery, into their personal collections, designating them as artifacts of the past, as they erode before our eyes. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/c...

Breaking News, US Senator from California, Alex Padilla, will join the Freedom Fighters at May Day Strong to talk about the need to resist a budget and regime that puts the interests of Billionaires above the workers. Join us tonight at www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Jackson Potter and Kate Lowe: Public education and transit benefit Chicagoans but aren’t being fully funded Fully funded public schools and public transit are fully possible in Illinois.

"We cannot fight President Donald Trump’s cuts to schools and services by cutting the programs he seeks to destroy." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/o...

Workers Over Billionaires: May Day to Labor Day · May Day Strong Join us for a strategy update on the May Day Movement. We'll look ahead to actions planned for Labor Day and other ways our communities are fighting back across the country. Bring a friend and help us...

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Education for Liberation "The curriculum didn’t stay in the classroom. It led to Crete’s first organized Juneteenth celebration in 2023, a small but deeply meaningful event sponsored by family and the Crete Area Historical Society and Museum." www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

No Kings Rally and March · No Kings In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. Join Indivisible Chicago and our partner organizations for a rally and march in downtown Chicago as we come together to say NO KINGS! This national d...

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Talk is cheap, Illinois needs Gov. Pritzker to act to protect our students and families - Chicago Teachers Union The first four months of Donald Trump’s second administration have been a barrage of Project 2025 proposals put into practice. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has been railing against the administration in ...

"The governor could call for a special legislative session to address the Trump attacks. He could move to prepare a “rainy day fund” to keep preschool programs open, special education resources available..and students’ civil rights secure." www.ctulocal1.org/posts/talk-i...

OPINION: Black and brown youth need commitment, not criminalization • The TRiiBE Can we build a system that makes room for our freedom?

Our communities aren’t suffering because teenagers are outside enjoying ourselves. Our communities are suffering because schools are underfunded, youth centers are shutting down, mental health services are scarce, and jobs for young people are almost nonexistent. thetriibe.com/2025/05/opin...

Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for alleged racially motivated hiring Mayor Brandon Johnson received a letter from an assistant attorney general saying there is “reasonable cause” to believe he “made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race.”

SMH that attempting to rectify generations of discrimination is now prosecuted by MAGA as discrimination. Big Brother and double speak are in full effect. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/j...

CTU Members Re-elect CORE Leadership, Doubling Down on Transformative Common Good Unionism

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CPS faces $529 million shortfall as school budgets roll out Chicago Public Schools officials call for additional dollars from the city and state to fill gaps in their budget for the upcoming school year.

“Whatever Martinez says, he won’t be here to enforce, so he is not capable of giving us the commitment that we deserve, It’s very easy to be vague and engage in political posturing when you have one foot out of the door.”https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/cps-releases-preliminary-budget/