Chicago Media is Against Public Schools & Unions
By Jim Vail
I noticed that on the Chicago Teachers Facebook forums teachers post stories from the two mainstream newspapers The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune.
The latest one was an attack on the Chicago Public Schools finances and questions how it will pay for the new teachers contract.
This was from our wonderful Chicago Tribune.
Reading The Chicago Tribune is dangerous to any working person.
The Tribune will attack education budgets, but stays silent on the rising police and military budgets.
The Tribune promotes closing public schools and opening privatized charter schools. It is pro austerity!
The Tribune attacks the Chicago Teachers Union and once pig-faced editorial writer McQuery actually wrote an editorial wishing a Hurricane Katrina hit Chicago like in New Orleans where the storm's devastation whipped out many of the public schools and replace them with charter schools run by businesses. Pretty disgusting stuff!
The mainstream media in my view are capitalist soldiers like the police who are there to protect the ruling class property. The media reports street crime to make it appear dangerous criminals in this country are black people, therefore we need a heavy police presence and more jails. How about if they reported every day how Jeff Bezos is not paying taxes, has increased his wealth by $60 billion just this year alone while 40 million people have lost their jobs and he underpays his workers. What if that message hit the people everyday, like we read about street crime everyday. Instead of calling for more police to rough up poor black people on the South Side, there would be demands to tax the hell out of Jeff Bezos!
I do still read the local mainstream media who report what is happening in the city, because they have a monopoly on producing local reporting. But it is important that teachers understand the media are like the police who protect and promote a very racist society that attacks working and poor people.
I enjoy reading and support Counterpunch. This is a no nonsense radical website on national and international politics that shapes our educational system. I especially enjoy reading the weekly column by Editor Jeffery St. Claire called Roaming Charges.
Here are a few facts he comprised from the daily tweets and tidbits to expose how awful things are getting here and why the protests happened:
By Jim Vail
I noticed that on the Chicago Teachers Facebook forums teachers post stories from the two mainstream newspapers The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune.
The latest one was an attack on the Chicago Public Schools finances and questions how it will pay for the new teachers contract.
This was from our wonderful Chicago Tribune.
Reading The Chicago Tribune is dangerous to any working person.
The Tribune will attack education budgets, but stays silent on the rising police and military budgets.
The Tribune promotes closing public schools and opening privatized charter schools. It is pro austerity!
The Tribune attacks the Chicago Teachers Union and once pig-faced editorial writer McQuery actually wrote an editorial wishing a Hurricane Katrina hit Chicago like in New Orleans where the storm's devastation whipped out many of the public schools and replace them with charter schools run by businesses. Pretty disgusting stuff!
The mainstream media in my view are capitalist soldiers like the police who are there to protect the ruling class property. The media reports street crime to make it appear dangerous criminals in this country are black people, therefore we need a heavy police presence and more jails. How about if they reported every day how Jeff Bezos is not paying taxes, has increased his wealth by $60 billion just this year alone while 40 million people have lost their jobs and he underpays his workers. What if that message hit the people everyday, like we read about street crime everyday. Instead of calling for more police to rough up poor black people on the South Side, there would be demands to tax the hell out of Jeff Bezos!
I do still read the local mainstream media who report what is happening in the city, because they have a monopoly on producing local reporting. But it is important that teachers understand the media are like the police who protect and promote a very racist society that attacks working and poor people.
I enjoy reading and support Counterpunch. This is a no nonsense radical website on national and international politics that shapes our educational system. I especially enjoy reading the weekly column by Editor Jeffery St. Claire called Roaming Charges.
Here are a few facts he comprised from the daily tweets and tidbits to expose how awful things are getting here and why the protests happened:
+ Clint Lorance had been in command of 1st Platoon for only three days in Afghanistan, but in that brief time he committed a war crime a day. On his last day in Afghanistan, Lorance ordered his troops to open fire on three Afghan men standing near a motorcycle on the side of the road. A military court convicted Lorance of second degree murder. Then, to the dismay of those in his platoon, Trump declared Lorance a national hero and pardoned him…
+ Since 1996, drug companies have increased the price of a vial of insulin by 1200%. More than 25 percent of patients now ration insulin to survive. Big Pharma, of course, is suing to block Minnesota’s new insulin access law, which attempts to rectify some of these gross inequities.
+ For the first time since 1965, more Americans say immigration should be increased rather than decreased.
+ On July 1, 2020
Arizona: 7.28 million people; 4,878 new COVID cases
The EU: 446 million people; 3,543 new COVID cases
+ Jeff Bezos’ net worth is now $171.6 billion, a new record. He’s gained $57 billion in the first six months of this year alone.
+ Political contributions from billionaires soared from $32 million in 2010 to $611 million in 2018.
+ Number of billionaires giving money to Biden: 106, and to Trump: 93.
+ IRS audit rates for the wealthiest Americans (with more than $1 million in income) have declined from 12.5% in 2011 to 2.4% last year.
+ The price of Truvada for PrEP, an HIV prevention drug manufactured by Gilead, is $2000 in the US, yet it costs only $6 to make. Gilead Sciences is a leading corporate sponsor of Virtual Pride Week in San Francisco…
We need a better system for the people!
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