Parents might be interested to know that many of their children’s teachers work arm-in-arm with avowed socialists, but they won’t learn about it from the supposedly objective journalists of their city.Parents might be interested to know that many of their children’s teachers work arm-in-arm with avowed socialists, but they won’t learn about it from the supposedly objective journalists of their city.
The Socialism 2013 Conference agenda is out! And look who made the cover of the program? Not Che, not Mao, not Lenin, Stalin or Marx.
The honor went to the Chicago Teachers Union!
Since the early days of the Occupy movement in October 2011, the ties between radical revolutionary organizations and the CTU have become very clear. EAGnews documented the relationship between the CTU and radical anarchist organizer Lisa Fithian, who trained the teachers in “non-violent direct action” and showed the how to stage and coordinate phony arrests with the Chicago Police Department.
In 2012, the CTU began to set the stage for the its now infamous strike by conducting several massive protests, shutting down Chicago’s loop on several occasions.
I captured union Vice President Jesse Sharkey on film, leading the teachers in actions that directly emulated those of the Occupy Movement.
For days in the fall of 2012, during the strike, the educators of Chicago’s youth marched side by side with members of revolutionary Marxist organizations, black bloc anarchists, and open communist organizations. One thing missing through it all, however, was any coverage of these facts in the Chicago media.
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