April 1 #ShutDownChi Day of Action!
March 27, 2016
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Join TSJ for the April 1 #ShutDownChi Day of Action!
Friday April 1 All Day, Everywhere
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April 1 in Chicago will be a day of mass action against austerity politics, racist violence, anti-immigrant and Islamaphobic attacks, the savaging of human needs in Illinois, growing poverty, attempts to smash unions, and economic violence against the vast majority of people in our state. And, it will be a day FOR justice, fair distribution of wealth, progressive revenue solutions, full funding of our schools and human needs, and racial and social justice.
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Map of April 1 Events
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News and Links about #ShutDownChi
http://www.teachersforjustice.org/p/shutdownchi-april-1.html
Social Media resources for #ShutDownChi
http://www.teachersforjustice.org/p/social-media-for-shutdownchi.html
http://www.teachersforjustice.org/p/shutdownchi-april-1.html
Social Media resources for #ShutDownChi
http://www.teachersforjustice.org/p/social-media-for-shutdownchi.html
Hashtags #ShutDownChi and #FightForFunding
On April 1, 2016, we are asking all concerned Chicago citizens to unite in a day of action by:
• Withholding your labor• Joining morning pickets at CPS schools
• Attending events at CSU and NEIU
• Marching from UIC to the Downtown Rally
• Withholding your dollars
• Boycotting the Magnificent Mile
• Protesting Governor Rauner, Mayor Emanuel and billionaire Ken Griffin
• Protesting banks such as Bank of America
• Engaging in nonviolent direct action protests
• Demanding progressive taxation
• Demanding the release of the TIF surplus
Join families, students, teachers, workers, and all those who thirst for justice.
Racial injustice fuels the prison industrial complex by sending poor Black and brown men and women to prison each day. Chronic disinvestment has caused poverty in the state to grow considerably. Law enforcement agencies are under federal scrutiny for the murder of unarmed people and the mentally ill. Child-care workers and low-income parents are under attack. Yet multimillion-dollar arenas, museums and millionaire condos are being built all around us.
Tax cuts for those with the highest incomes, an unfair, regressive flat-tax system, and corporate loopholes galore have put Illinois in this fiscal distress. In Chicago, the mayor refuses to renegotiate bad deals with the banks profiting off of our “broke on purpose” schools. The mayor's TIF program siphons money from schools, parks, libraries and other public needs and hands it to wealthy developers. Rahm's handpicked board of education wastes millions on excessive testing and mismanagement while they cut and cut from school budgets. Enough is enough!
