Saturday, October 19, 2019

SERVANTS OF WALL STREET DEMOCRAT PARTY ASSAULTS WORKERS

As Chicago teachers strike completes second day, union and Democratic Party working together to shut it down

Striking Chicago Public School teachers and staff completed their second day of picketing yesterday. Over 30,000 Chicago educators are fighting to improve their schools; demanding smaller class sizes; more librarians, social workers, and nurses; increased spending and better pay.
Teachers at Douglas Taylor Elementary in Chicago's East Side neighborhood
After years of school closures and austerity imposed by both Republican and Democratic parties, educators are determined to fight back. However, the Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU and the Democratic Party are working closely together to rapidly bring the strike to an end.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said yesterday, “The fact is there is no more money. Period.” CTU President Jesse Sharkey has criticized the mayor for “stonewalling” on the budget. This is, at best, kabuki theater. The CTU did not want to call a strike, but due to the determination of the teachers it had no choice. It is attempting a “Hollywood” strike, a short strike to blow off steam and then ram through a concessions contract.
In 2012, the CTU called off the powerful Chicago teachers strike of 26,000 educators after seven days. This in turn cleared the way for then-mayor Rahm Emanuel to shutter 49 public schools.
Interview with Marquette, Chicago teacher on strike
While not providing teachers with any information about negotiations, a CTU official said of negotiations on Friday, “We still got a little bit to go, but we’re getting there.” Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson issued a statement the same day saying that the “negotiations were productive and yielded real movement.”
Given that the position of the city is that there is “no money” to meet teachers demands, “progress” in negotiations can only come at the expense of the teachers.
Diana, a special ed teacher at Douglas Taylor Elementary in Chicago’s industrial East Side, told the World Socialist Web Site, “There aren’t enough nurses, social workers, psychologists. Any dedicated personnel that were once at our school are gone. They keep cutting funding. It’s an erosion of our profession, and it takes away from the children. And our students are living in poverty. Ninety-nine percent of our children are defined as in poverty.”
Diana continued, “And the conditions for kids today are even worse. Our children don’t have economic opportunities to begin with because the industrial jobs have gone. Around here their parents are mostly service sector employees. And we’re pushing the young people into that service industry. Educators don’t want that, we try. But we’re not given the resources.”
When asked if she supported the call to unite with GM autoworkers, Diana affirmed, "Yes! That's just down the street from us [referring to Ford's nearby Chicago Assembly Plant]. This is an industrial corridor.
“They work long hours and they produce cars that get everyone to and from work, so we all need them as much as they need teachers. And they need medical care, because of their arduous job. Just two years ago around here a worker had something fall on them at a factory and that person lost their life. We saw the helicopter come. They’re basically risking their lives to go into work every day.”
The strike is finding broad support among students and workers. Oscar, 17, and Abigail, 16, both juniors at Benito Juarez Community Academy, joined their teachers on the picket line on Cermak Road on Friday morning. They said that despite the extraordinary efforts of teachers, “huge class sizes” and a lack of resources made it difficult to learn.
Abigail said it was the norm for her teachers to spend their own money on classroom supplies. “Teachers are always taking out of their pocket for their students. The teachers have so much love for their students, and they want what’s best for them, so they’ll do it if they have to. But we have up to 36 or even 40 students in some classes. There are not even enough desks. We have some people just sitting in chairs.”
Referring to the $700 billion spent by the US government each year on endless wars, Oscar said, “I think it’s shocking how much they spend on the military, but not the future. Students are literally the future. We’re going to be here for a long time.”
Abigail said she was on the picket because “it’s something that has to be done. Everyone should support the teachers. You should be given health care; you should be given an education. You shouldn’t have to fight for things like this.”
Some 7,000 striking educators are part of SEIU Local 73, which claims to represent 29,000 public service employees, but none have been called out to support the strike. Instead, the unions are deliberately isolating the strike.
The CTU has not issued a single cent of strike pay. It intends to, at minimum, starve workers into accepting a new contract. Meanwhile, SEIU’s President Mary Henry makes over $250,000 a year, while both American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten make close to $500,000 a year.
There is more than enough money to meet and exceed the needs of all students and educators. Illinois alone has 18 billionaires, one of them being Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, whose has a net worth $3.4 billion. The total net worth of all of Illinois’s billionaires amounts to almost $60 billion.
However, what is happening behind the scenes is not a genuine fight between the Lightfoot administration and the CTU and SEIU, but a discussion of tactics and plans to best ram through another sellout contract.
To fight back, workers must begin now creating rank-and-file committees to take this strike into their own hands. These committees must put forth and fight for what educators and students need, not what the CTU or Lightfoot administration tells them is affordable.
To provide the resources needed to improve schools and neighborhoods, eradicate poverty and raise the material and cultural level of the whole population, teachers must carry out a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the super-rich, to radically redistribute the wealth created by working people to meet their needs.


So is running for president now a corrupt Democrat's 'get out of jail free' card?

 

Based on today's standards, promoted in Congress and the press, Democratic Party candidates, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, can greatly enrich their families with massive amounts of money from foreign parties, and a Republican president or its Justice department are not even allowed to bring up their names, let alone research their obvious corruption. Most of the media and other Democrats are now calling President Trump's bid to get to the bottom of the ongoing corruption we see 'impeachable' and they couldn't care less about corruption as they preach that no one is above the law.
Democrats can seek trash on their Republican opponents from foreign nationals and not only do most journalists and other Democrats not care, they can use a fake dossier full of opposition research as grist for an FBI investigation in their bid to take out Trump. Then, if Trump brings up Biden’s name to a foreign leader, they call that illegal and impeachable.
A Democrat, her staff and many at the State Department and other agencies can continually violate the nation's security laws (as Clinton did) and the Justice Department inexplicably lets her off. Most journalists and other Democrats support her and call it partisan to look at the clear violations of the law as they lecture everyone that no one is above the law.
A Democrat and her spouse can physically and mentally abuse women (again, the Clinton pair) and seek to destroy anyone who gets in their way as they amass power. Most journalists and other Democrats don’t give a damn about any of the abused women with credible claims against Bill or Hillary Clinton even as they say how pro-women they are.
A Democrat commits fraud throughout her adult life by lying about her heritage to move up the economic ladder (Elizabeth Warren) and most journalists and other Democrats will support her. In fact, they've made her the frontrunner in the current Democratic nomination for president polls.
Democrat candidates can seek to destroy and impeach Judge Brett Kavanaugh based on articles the media has published with no evidence to support the stories. And the media pretends their stories are based on facts. How can they expect the public to believe them when they ran years of stories on Russian collusion when there was never any evidence?
Democrat candidates continually lie about what Trump said in Charlottesville and lie about Ferguson, Missouri to gin up racial hate and violence and they are supported wholeheartedly by the complicit media as they pretend they are the party of unity and the truthful party.
Democrat bureaucrats in the Obama administration, at Justice, CIA, other intelligence agencies and at the State Department continually lie to justify spying to take out Trump while they protect Hillary from prosecution. But if the Trump administration looks at the origins of the fake Russian collusion narrative, that is impeachable and partisan. The compliant media doesn’t give a darn about the clear violations of the law and abuse of power while they continually say that no one is above the law.
A Democrat president can violate the Constitution with DACA, be flexible with Russia, give kickbacks to Iran tyrants, stop an investigation into drug running by terrorists to appease Iran, violate bankruptcy laws, have slush funds at Justice, CFPB and EPA to reward political supporters, illegally unmask names of people surrounding Trump, leave Americans to die in Libya while concocting a lie, spy illegally on thousands of Americans, imprison reporters, look the other way as his Secretary of State violates security laws and takes kickbacks, Look the other way as Obama administration officials such as Eric Holder, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice and others commit perjury, withhold documents from Congress for years on Fast and Furious, prosecute whistleblowers for violation of the espionage act, cage and separate children at the border and all his conversations with foreign leaders will remain private.
As the media watched all this clear corruption unfold throughout eight years of Obama, almost all journalists and other Democrat supported him, called him brilliant and to this date pretend the Obama administration was scandal-free as they tell the public that no one is above the law.
Known serial liars Clapper, Brennan, Holder, plus creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti are treated as reliable sources by almost all media outlets as they trash Trump.
Meanwhile, whatever Trump does is impeachable, even if it is only bringing up Biden’s name to investigate clear corruption. According to the media, as they collude with other Democrats, it appears that every one of Trump’s phone calls should be made public.
And any disgruntled Democrat bureaucrat who leaks information, whether or not they had firsthand knowledge, should be treated as a protected whistleblower instead of a leaker.
Republicans are welcome as reliable sources in the media, like Senators Mitt Romney, John McCain or Jeff Flake, as long as they are trashing Trump. Otherwise they are not welcome.
It is so hard to spot the bias as the media trashes Trump and his supporters, daily, with every name in the book and lecture the public that no one is above the law and how the Democrat party is the party of unity.
Image credit: Photo illustration by Monica Showalter with use of image by Michael Vadon, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0.

So is running for president now a corrupt Democrat's 'get out of jail free' card?

 

Based on today's standards, promoted in Congress and the press, Democratic Party candidates, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, can greatly enrich their families with massive amounts of money from foreign parties, and a Republican president or its Justice department are not even allowed to bring up their names, let alone research their obvious corruption. Most of the media and other Democrats are now calling President Trump's bid to get to the bottom of the ongoing corruption we see 'impeachable' and they couldn't care less about corruption as they preach that no one is above the law.
Democrats can seek trash on their Republican opponents from foreign nationals and not only do most journalists and other Democrats not care, they can use a fake dossier full of opposition research as grist for an FBI investigation in their bid to take out Trump. Then, if Trump brings up Biden’s name to a foreign leader, they call that illegal and impeachable.
A Democrat, her staff and many at the State Department and other agencies can continually violate the nation's security laws (as Clinton did) and the Justice Department inexplicably lets her off. Most journalists and other Democrats support her and call it partisan to look at the clear violations of the law as they lecture everyone that no one is above the law.
A Democrat and her spouse can physically and mentally abuse women (again, the Clinton pair) and seek to destroy anyone who gets in their way as they amass power. Most journalists and other Democrats don’t give a damn about any of the abused women with credible claims against Bill or Hillary Clinton even as they say how pro-women they are.
A Democrat commits fraud throughout her adult life by lying about her heritage to move up the economic ladder (Elizabeth Warren) and most journalists and other Democrats will support her. In fact, they've made her the frontrunner in the current Democratic nomination for president polls.
Democrat candidates can seek to destroy and impeach Judge Brett Kavanaugh based on articles the media has published with no evidence to support the stories. And the media pretends their stories are based on facts. How can they expect the public to believe them when they ran years of stories on Russian collusion when there was never any evidence?
Democrat candidates continually lie about what Trump said in Charlottesville and lie about Ferguson, Missouri to gin up racial hate and violence and they are supported wholeheartedly by the complicit media as they pretend they are the party of unity and the truthful party.
Democrat bureaucrats in the Obama administration, at Justice, CIA, other intelligence agencies and at the State Department continually lie to justify spying to take out Trump while they protect Hillary from prosecution. But if the Trump administration looks at the origins of the fake Russian collusion narrative, that is impeachable and partisan. The compliant media doesn’t give a darn about the clear violations of the law and abuse of power while they continually say that no one is above the law.
A Democrat president can violate the Constitution with DACA, be flexible with Russia, give kickbacks to Iran tyrants, stop an investigation into drug running by terrorists to appease Iran, violate bankruptcy laws, have slush funds at Justice, CFPB and EPA to reward political supporters, illegally unmask names of people surrounding Trump, leave Americans to die in Libya while concocting a lie, spy illegally on thousands of Americans, imprison reporters, look the other way as his Secretary of State violates security laws and takes kickbacks, Look the other way as Obama administration officials such as Eric Holder, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice and others commit perjury, withhold documents from Congress for years on Fast and Furious, prosecute whistleblowers for violation of the espionage act, cage and separate children at the border and all his conversations with foreign leaders will remain private.
As the media watched all this clear corruption unfold throughout eight years of Obama, almost all journalists and other Democrat supported him, called him brilliant and to this date pretend the Obama administration was scandal-free as they tell the public that no one is above the law.
Known serial liars Clapper, Brennan, Holder, plus creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti are treated as reliable sources by almost all media outlets as they trash Trump.
Meanwhile, whatever Trump does is impeachable, even if it is only bringing up Biden’s name to investigate clear corruption. According to the media, as they collude with other Democrats, it appears that every one of Trump’s phone calls should be made public.
And any disgruntled Democrat bureaucrat who leaks information, whether or not they had firsthand knowledge, should be treated as a protected whistleblower instead of a leaker.
Republicans are welcome as reliable sources in the media, like Senators Mitt Romney, John McCain or Jeff Flake, as long as they are trashing Trump. Otherwise they are not welcome.
It is so hard to spot the bias as the media trashes Trump and his supporters, daily, with every name in the book and lecture the public that no one is above the law and how the Democrat party is the party of unity.
Image credit: Photo illustration by Monica Showalter with use of image by Michael Vadon, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0.




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