Kat 🌱

Does it unite us, does it build our power and does it make us stronger?

[Kat 🌱 @sirensips]

Anyone else wondering if someone who runs a hedge fund, donates millions of $$ to wrap politicians around his finger, and bought his daughter a White House internship actually gives a damn about working ppl outside the Mag Mile? Hmmmm let me think about it.

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

Never seen a Chicago budget cycle like this one with big money business and labor unions outwardly spending big money to fight. Here’s an ad against Mayor Brandon Johnson from the business community funded by Michael Sacks

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Our “extreme agenda”
✅ a quality public school that every parent can walk their child to
✅ freedom to learn our histories in schools, safe from federal intimidation
✅ smaller class sizes, recess, sports, honors, and music for every student
✅ and pay for it like Massachusetts and other states have, by taxing the ultra-rich who can afford it, not raising fees on families who are already struggling.

(PS a super majority across every part and every demographic of the city agrees with us. Most people can’t afford to put their opinions on TV like the billionaire class, trying to avoid getting taxed like the rest of us.)

[Mayor Brandon Johnson @ChicagosMayor]

Why are we even debating something that doesn't work? Ask me what is working, not about a failed attempt to criminalize our young people.

[Jordan Sumbu @JordanSumbu]

They like the ‘cool and understanding’ black people who don’t talk politics, and ‘don’t see color’ and don’t use ‘the race card’. Bonus point if they let them to use the N-word. And this applies to other non-black folks too.

[IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME @solomonmissouri]

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

[Injustice Watch @injusticewatch]

Our latest investigation examines how weakly the landlord-tenant law is enforced by judges, and how common it is for tenants who withhold rent due to lack of repairs to get their leases terminated, receive rent increases, or get taken to eviction court. https://t.co/T1PC2Sj7l6

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Chicago Teachers Union & Chicago Federation of Labor Stand in Solidarity with Unions in Los Angeles and Our Immigrant Communities in Chicago

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Locking up labor leaders for defending workers' rights, civil rights, and immigrant rights is a sign of growing authoritarianism. Resist and fight back!

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Update: After counting the ballots submitted by mail, at CTU Center, and collected from our schools, CTU members have re-elected the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) to lead the union.

[On the Line @laborontheline]

On the Line interviewed Stacy Davis Gates, President of @CTULocal1. Stacy talked about the incredible recent contract victory by CTU to reconstruct Chicago public schools. The wins in the contract are a direct rebuttal to the attacks of Project 2025 and the billionaire agenda.
https://t.co/J1LcH6snZU

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Pedro Martinez’s 2025 CPS budget is just a rerun of 2024.
Same show, different year—Chicago deserves leadership that learns from the past, not just repeats it.

[⭐️ SDG ⭐️AKA Muse of Chicago Trib Editorial Board @stacydavisgates]

⬇️ Partners in Justice. Patriarchy and white supremacy be damned. Struggle *and* win with those who are committed to progress and equity. #CORE25 #CopyAndPasteThat
📣C-T-WHO!?
📣 C-T-U!

[CORE - Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators @coreteachers]

The “clever” sounding Liberty Justice Center (LJC) based in Austin Texas, is on the attack against the members of the Chicago Teachers Union by suing the CTU. The Liberty Justice Center often represents the Illinois Policy Institute and hate group Awake Illinois

[CORE - Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators @coreteachers]

What does the Illinois Policy Institute, Liberty Justice Center, Awake Illinois, Paul Vallas and many other neoliberal education privatizers have in common besides being emboldened by Trump and Project 2025? Spoiler-they are all deeply connected 🧵

[CORE - Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators @coreteachers]

CORE members turning in our petitions to put our CORE slate on the ballot for CTU leadership!
President Stacy Davis Gates, VP Jackson Potter, Financial Secretary Dr Diane Castro, and Recording Secretary Vicki Kurzydlo.
CTU elections on May 15th. #VoteCORE #Solidarity

[Brandon Johnson @Brandon4Chicago]

This President is off.

Gutting the department of education is an attack on the American people. We must fund our public education system—the evolution of our democracy has been dependent on an educated citizenry. Our children deserve our investment.

[H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote]

The Left doesn’t need a Joe Rogan.

It needs an ecosystem.

Let’s talk about Chicago, right-wing framing, narrative warfare, and what we need to actually win.

[Nina Hike @ninahike06]

We have Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Education Plan, CTU’s contract proposals, CPS’s strategic plan and an elected school board that are in alignment. Chicago students deserve a quality education. Why so many opinion hit pieces? Why is there so much political noise? Who’s behind it? I wonder if past fail leadership is responsible ⬇️

[Dave Stieber @D_Stieber]

Rahm Emanuel, as mayor of Chicago, covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald and closed the most public schools in the history of the United States. #FailedLeadership