Massive Chicago Teachers Union Rally Takes over Downtown [View all]

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By the time Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis rose and took the microphone in front of more than 4,000 of her union's 30,000 members at Chicago's iconic Auditorium Theater on May 23, 2012, the teachers from all over the schools of the third largest public school system in the USA had been meeting, cheering, and chanting for two hours. Most wearing red tee shirts emblazoned with "Chicago Teachers Union," the teachers and other school workers had come from across the city after working all day with the children of Chicago.

And as Lewis wrapped up her speech, the chants of "Strike! Strike!" and "Fight! Fight!" may have been heard as far away as Sox Park, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his police chief were attending a baseball game in order to try and get some additional adulation and cheap publicity following a year of the most intense teacher bashing in Chicago history.

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