Tag Archive for ‘chicago’
Four Reasons Chicago’s Teachers Are On Strike
Across mainstream media and through the megaphone of city government, Chicago public school teachers have been consistently demonized and criticized for everything from self-serving greed, to negligence of their duties, and lack of care and respect for students.
NATO Invades: We Can’t Feed The Poor, But We Can Fund Wars?
When NATO released a video earlier this month introducing Chicago to the visiting heads of state, it was full of so many errors and missteps—that the city is the capital of Illinois, that President Obama grew up here, that the Trump Tower is an architectural treasure—it made one ask, just what city were they talking ...
May Day’s Chicago Roots
Chicago is in many ways the birthplace of May Day. It was in this rapidly industrializing city in 1886 that the demands for an eight-hour workday reached a fever pitch resulting in the violent tragedy of the Haymarket massacre. A strong leftist movement of socialists, communists, anarchists and labor unions was spreading throughout the country ...
