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16th May 2011, 14:07
[anticapdiscuss] Fwd: 9:30 am Monday 5/16: March and Rally for Public Education
NEWS ALERT: For Immediate Release
March and Rally for Public Education: Monday, May 16, 9:30 a.m.
From Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Avenue, to the Pritzker Pavilion/Millennium Park at Michigan and Monroe
Press contact: Jessi Choe, cell 312-404-2463, [email protected]
Students, Workers and Community Members of Chicago: March on Rahm Emanuels Inauguration Day!
Monday is the swearing-in ceremony of Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel. We call on students, workers and community members to join us in a march and rally against the continuing legacy of corporate welfare and City Hall patronage at the expense of the working-class, minority and immigrant people. Emanuels so-called tough-minded collaboration on issues of public education only serves the interests of bankers and corporations--even before he is installed in office. We say NO to the "reinvention" of the City Colleges of Chicago to suit LaSalle Street. We say NO to the privatization of our public schools and colleges, the dismantling of public sector unions, worker layoffs, and cuts to programs and services for students and communities. We demand shared governance, accountability, and transparency at the City Colleges of Chicago.
Join us in solidarity and protest the coronation of Emanuel Daley III! We meet at Roosevelt University at 9:30 a.m. and will march together to the corner of Monroe and Michigan and as space allows near the Pritzker Pavilion.
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Chicago City Colleges: Students, workers, community members announce plans to march on Rahm Emanuels inauguration
By Staff | May 14, 2011
Chicago, IL - In a press conference held May 13, City College faculty and students joined forces with community activists to protest attacks coming down on the colleges from the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Cheryl Hyman. Professor Jessi Choe of Wright College announced plans to protest at the inauguration of incoming mayor Rahm Emanuel, Monday, May 16 at 9:30 a.m. Marching from Roosevelt University to Millennium Park, they will demand the trustees hold public hearings so students, workers and the community have their voices heard.
Viviana Moreno of Students for a Democratic Society at Wright College criticized the Reinvention process underway throughout the seven-school system. So far the only changes we have seen are cuts of staff who serve students, said Moreno. Jokarhi Miller, student at Malcolm X College and District student council parliamentarian, said over 225 essential employees are being taken away.
Professor Choe called attention to the fact that the city colleges serve working class, minority nationality and immigrant students. Community activist Nubian Malik in turn exposed that the other changes in the Reinvention program were 54 new top administrators with a total salary of $5.1 million.
Reverend Paul Jakes of New Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church criticized the Board for forcing six of the seven presidents of the colleges to reapply for their jobs. When they were chosen the process was more open and a number of presidents receive positive marks by their students and faculty. Choe exposed that the Board hired a consultant for over $300,000 to perform the search for the new chancellor, Hyman, who has no background in education.
The activists are also demanding that Martin Cabrera, the Board of Trustees chairman, call a public hearing on May 26, in the evening, and advertise it two weeks in advance, in, for example, community newspapers. Miller explained, They call it Chicago Community College for a reason: its supposed to serve the community. He called for public meetings that can hear from the people, and not, an illusion of inclusion.
While the coalition stated their hope the new mayor would have a fresh start and mark an end of the Daley administration history of patronage and privatization, the actions by what will now be Emmanuels City College Board caused Jokarhi Miller to call for an end to mayoral control.
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NEWS ALERT: For Immediate Release
March and Rally for Public Education: Monday, May 16, 9:30 a.m.
From Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Avenue, to the Pritzker Pavilion/Millennium Park at Michigan and Monroe
Press contact: Jessi Choe, cell 312-404-2463, [email protected]
Students, Workers and Community Members of Chicago: March on Rahm Emanuels Inauguration Day!
Monday is the swearing-in ceremony of Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel. We call on students, workers and community members to join us in a march and rally against the continuing legacy of corporate welfare and City Hall patronage at the expense of the working-class, minority and immigrant people. Emanuels so-called tough-minded collaboration on issues of public education only serves the interests of bankers and corporations--even before he is installed in office. We say NO to the "reinvention" of the City Colleges of Chicago to suit LaSalle Street. We say NO to the privatization of our public schools and colleges, the dismantling of public sector unions, worker layoffs, and cuts to programs and services for students and communities. We demand shared governance, accountability, and transparency at the City Colleges of Chicago.
Join us in solidarity and protest the coronation of Emanuel Daley III! We meet at Roosevelt University at 9:30 a.m. and will march together to the corner of Monroe and Michigan and as space allows near the Pritzker Pavilion.
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Chicago City Colleges: Students, workers, community members announce plans to march on Rahm Emanuels inauguration
By Staff | May 14, 2011
Chicago, IL - In a press conference held May 13, City College faculty and students joined forces with community activists to protest attacks coming down on the colleges from the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Cheryl Hyman. Professor Jessi Choe of Wright College announced plans to protest at the inauguration of incoming mayor Rahm Emanuel, Monday, May 16 at 9:30 a.m. Marching from Roosevelt University to Millennium Park, they will demand the trustees hold public hearings so students, workers and the community have their voices heard.
Viviana Moreno of Students for a Democratic Society at Wright College criticized the Reinvention process underway throughout the seven-school system. So far the only changes we have seen are cuts of staff who serve students, said Moreno. Jokarhi Miller, student at Malcolm X College and District student council parliamentarian, said over 225 essential employees are being taken away.
Professor Choe called attention to the fact that the city colleges serve working class, minority nationality and immigrant students. Community activist Nubian Malik in turn exposed that the other changes in the Reinvention program were 54 new top administrators with a total salary of $5.1 million.
Reverend Paul Jakes of New Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church criticized the Board for forcing six of the seven presidents of the colleges to reapply for their jobs. When they were chosen the process was more open and a number of presidents receive positive marks by their students and faculty. Choe exposed that the Board hired a consultant for over $300,000 to perform the search for the new chancellor, Hyman, who has no background in education.
The activists are also demanding that Martin Cabrera, the Board of Trustees chairman, call a public hearing on May 26, in the evening, and advertise it two weeks in advance, in, for example, community newspapers. Miller explained, They call it Chicago Community College for a reason: its supposed to serve the community. He called for public meetings that can hear from the people, and not, an illusion of inclusion.
While the coalition stated their hope the new mayor would have a fresh start and mark an end of the Daley administration history of patronage and privatization, the actions by what will now be Emmanuels City College Board caused Jokarhi Miller to call for an end to mayoral control.
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