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21st February 2016, 20:42
Little Village Stands Up; Loyola U threatens activist students; Belmont-Cragin Cuts - next Labor Beat on CAN TV, starts 2/18
Three Segment Show
Little Village Stands Up To the CPS Bully
Chicago - CAN TV Channel 19
Thursday, Feb. 18, 9:30 pm
Friday, Feb. 19, 4:30 pm
Thursday, Feb. 25, 9:30 pm
Friday, Feb. 26, 4:30 pm
On January of 2016, Chicago Public Schools proposed a "co-location" plan to move Spry Community Links school into the facility already occupied by Maria Saucedo Academy and Telpochcalli school, located in the Little Village neighborhood. This proposal was made to save CPS the $95,000 in rent they were paying for Community Links at a different building. Since Saucedo/Telpochcalli was not officially "under-utilized" (CPS lingo for "not crowded enough"), parents, teachers, and students were angered by the idea. It would most likely have led to larger classroom sizes and a degraded educational quality.
On Jan. 20, 2016, at one of three hearings on the proposal, all community members present opposed the plan. A sit-in formed at the end of the meeting, which took over the auditorium for several hours and forced CPS administrators to postpone the planned co-location for a year and gather more information on class size impacts. In this Labor Beat video, Chicago Teachers Union member and Saucedo special education teacher Sarah Chambers relays the story of the victorious sit-in action by parents, students, and allies in the community. Can also be viewed at:
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Little Village protest on Jan. 20, 2016. Photo: Andrew Friend / Labor Beat
Second Segment:
Loyola University Chicago:
Charging Students Who Defend Food Service Workers
On January 25, 2016 there was a press conference attended by about 30 students, labor and religious activists, and organized by Arise Chicago and Students for Worker Justice. They called upon Loyola University to drop charges against its students for demonstrating on campus in support of Aramark dining hall workers. The press conference took place moments before the four targeted students were to go into the disciplinary hearing ordered by the school administration. Later that day, the hearing ruled not to discipline the students, but to blame the campus student organization instead! An institutional version of blaming those who are victimized. On another labor front that day, Loyola adjunct professors voted to unionize. Can also be viewed at:
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Third Segment:
CPS Cuts and Layoffs at Belmont-Cragin
0The January 29, 2016 Communities United-organized meeting in Chicago's Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on how the community can resist and reverse the undermining of their schools by Chicago Public Schools policies. Can also be viewed at:
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Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner, and member of the Evanston Community Media Center. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: [email protected], www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit YouTube and search "Labor Beat". On Chicago CAN TV Channel 19, Thursdays 9:30 pm; Fridays 4:30 pm. Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY.
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Three Segment Show
Little Village Stands Up To the CPS Bully
Chicago - CAN TV Channel 19
Thursday, Feb. 18, 9:30 pm
Friday, Feb. 19, 4:30 pm
Thursday, Feb. 25, 9:30 pm
Friday, Feb. 26, 4:30 pm
On January of 2016, Chicago Public Schools proposed a "co-location" plan to move Spry Community Links school into the facility already occupied by Maria Saucedo Academy and Telpochcalli school, located in the Little Village neighborhood. This proposal was made to save CPS the $95,000 in rent they were paying for Community Links at a different building. Since Saucedo/Telpochcalli was not officially "under-utilized" (CPS lingo for "not crowded enough"), parents, teachers, and students were angered by the idea. It would most likely have led to larger classroom sizes and a degraded educational quality.
On Jan. 20, 2016, at one of three hearings on the proposal, all community members present opposed the plan. A sit-in formed at the end of the meeting, which took over the auditorium for several hours and forced CPS administrators to postpone the planned co-location for a year and gather more information on class size impacts. In this Labor Beat video, Chicago Teachers Union member and Saucedo special education teacher Sarah Chambers relays the story of the victorious sit-in action by parents, students, and allies in the community. Can also be viewed at:
cM3XXUSEJLU
http://s7.postimg.org/5aaqtm9q3/160120_Little_Village_protest_Labor_Beat.jpg
Little Village protest on Jan. 20, 2016. Photo: Andrew Friend / Labor Beat
Second Segment:
Loyola University Chicago:
Charging Students Who Defend Food Service Workers
On January 25, 2016 there was a press conference attended by about 30 students, labor and religious activists, and organized by Arise Chicago and Students for Worker Justice. They called upon Loyola University to drop charges against its students for demonstrating on campus in support of Aramark dining hall workers. The press conference took place moments before the four targeted students were to go into the disciplinary hearing ordered by the school administration. Later that day, the hearing ruled not to discipline the students, but to blame the campus student organization instead! An institutional version of blaming those who are victimized. On another labor front that day, Loyola adjunct professors voted to unionize. Can also be viewed at:
zfUut4of1IA
Third Segment:
CPS Cuts and Layoffs at Belmont-Cragin
0The January 29, 2016 Communities United-organized meeting in Chicago's Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on how the community can resist and reverse the undermining of their schools by Chicago Public Schools policies. Can also be viewed at:
oLyGE9TCdpQ
Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner, and member of the Evanston Community Media Center. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: [email protected], www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit YouTube and search "Labor Beat". On Chicago CAN TV Channel 19, Thursdays 9:30 pm; Fridays 4:30 pm. Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY.
Visit our Web Site:
http://www.laborbeat.org
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