Students, Teachers, Clergy, Workers opened a week
of ALEC protests - Photo @phillipcantor
17 E Monroe (at Wabash & Monroe)
Protest the ALEC conference from 12 pm to 1 pm outside of the Palmer House (17 E Monroe)! There will be a picket line, press conference, and banner drops from the L tracks.
Friday, August 9 at 10 am
121 N LaSalle
The City Council Committee on Education (led by Latasha Thomas) is holding a hearing on the CPS budget cuts and layoffs. We are organizing a presence at this hearing.
Saturday, August 10 at 10:30 am
35th and King Dr.
Join CTU for the Bud Billiken Parade! This is a fantastic annual event, and we will have a big contingent, including marching band. Please join us! We will meet at 35th and King Dr. and walk over to join the parade. After the parade, join us for a picnic behind Dyett School on the Midway at 51st St, one block east of King Dr. We will serve complimentary hamburgers, hotdogs, and drinks.
Public protests are an expression of all that is good and Godly -- they are the ultimate display of democracy and patriotism against the evils of the establishment, the corruption of the federal government, and the unconstitutionality of decisions handed down by the Supreme Court.*
* ... unless said protests are conducted by union workers, liberals and progressives, ethnic minorities, gays, senior citizens, women fighting for their health and privacy rights, or participants in an "occupied" rally, in which case they're a non-patriotic demonstration of unAmerican, immoral ideas by "thugs, hoodlums, and malcontents" who want to destroy society as we know it!
The preceding announcement was brought you by the corporate-sponsored lobbyists and Congressional Republican puppetmasters of ALEC.
Public protests are an expression of all that is good and Godly -- they are the ultimate display of democracy and patriotism against the evils of the establishment, the corruption of the federal government, and the unconstitutionality of decisions handed down by the Supreme Court.*
* ... unless said protests are conducted by union workers, liberals and progressives, ethnic minorities, gays, senior citizens, women fighting for their health and privacy rights, or participants in an "occupied" rally, in which case they're a non-patriotic demonstration of unAmerican, immoral ideas by "thugs, hoodlums, and malcontents" who want to destroy society as we know it!
The preceding announcement was brought you by the corporate-sponsored lobbyists and Congressional Republican puppetmasters of ALEC.