President Obama: Walk that picket line

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Sunday September 09, 2012 · 6:02 AM PDT

2012/09/09 · 06:02

On November 3rd, 2007, President Obama was in Spartanburg, SC, and he said to the crowd there: "And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I'll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner."

The Chicago Board of Education is lavishing corporate welfare on private schools, and starving the public education system of resources. The Chicago Teachers Union is prepared to strike for the first time in 25 years, and the teachers, parents, and students of Chicago need the President Obama to keep his promise to "walk on that picket line" and join the teachers, students, parents, and concerned citizens who support public education!

More information about the Chicago Teacher's Union fight is available on their website at http://www.ctunet.com/
Updates and picket locations here.

Rally to support the Chicago Teacher's Union, Monday, September 10, at 3:30pm at CPS Headquarters 125 S. Clark Street
If you did not read Laura Clawson's excellent piece yesterday about the situation here, you should.

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