Labor Beat: Stop Chicago City Colleges New District Policies

On Friday, May 6, 2011 a press conference was held in front of the Mayor's office at Chicago's City Hall. Speaking at the event were student organization representatives, teachers, representatives of religious organizations, community activists, and labor groups who were opposed to "policy decisions by the City Colleges administration designed to swell the ranks of pinstripe patronage workers including politically-connected contractors at the expense of frontline services for students", their statement read. These top-down decisions from the CCC administration are part of a national onslaught against public education and the extinguishing of democratic control by communities affected by these decisions. Speaking here in this report are: Rev. Paul Jakes, President, Christian Council on Urban Affairs; Jessi Choe, Teacher, Wright College; Vivian Moreno, Student at Wright College and member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); Jokari Miller, Student at Malcom X and District Student Government Association Council Parliamentarian; Michael Stenson, Pastor at General Assembly Church of Englewood; Jamila Onyeali, South Side community activist; and Theodore Fabriek, Student at Kennedy-King College and District President of the Student Government Association. Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: mail@laborbeat.org, www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit Google Video, YouTube, or blip.tv and search "Labor Beat". Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; St. Louis, MO; Philadelphia, PA; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY. For more detailed information, send us a request at mail@laborbeat.org

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News & Politics

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• Chicago City Colleges
• CCC New District Policies
• SDS
• privatization of City Colleges
• higher education
• college

[superbluechevy]

This looks to me like Rahmm is true to form and that is, do what your MONEY donors want you to do. The poor and less fortunate can expect NOTHING , NOTHING from Rahm because you cannot afford to donate MONEY to him and OBAMA. I feel very sorry for you young people that think that educating the public will help. You forget that in this election for mayor just over half a million voters showed up to vote out of 12 million citizens in the city of Chicago, so now you must reap what you stow.