Chicago

                
  • Rally: Stop closing schools, education is a right

    Rally: Stop closing schools, education is a right

    February 27, 2009

    CHICAGO – It’s the worst feeling, said Paula Bullard, mother of five, when you have to tell your children that their school is closing. Bullard’s children go to South Chicago elementary in the South Shore neighborhood....

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  • Rally calls for moratorium on school closings

    Rally calls for moratorium on school closings

    February 6, 2009

    CHICAGO — Hundreds of teachers, parents, students, union leaders and local activists rallied here Jan. 28th at the Chicago Board of Education building against the board’s plan to close, consolidate, phase out and “turn around” more...

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  • Torture victim fights for freedom

    Torture victim fights for freedom

    August 19, 2008 By Pepe Lozano

    Every day Mark Clements prays to God in his prison cell that one day he will be a free man. He has been incarcerated since 1981–27 years–for a crime he says he did not commit. A...

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  • What will your legacy be?

    What will your legacy be?

    February 2, 2007 By Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs

    "What Will Your Legacy Be?" Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs once wrote and asked in a 2007 epic poem. The internationally renowned Burroughs died November 21, 2010, and scholars and activists celebrate her long-lasting legacy.

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  • Harry Gaynor: fighter for open housing, social justice

    Harry Gaynor: fighter for open housing, social justice

    October 7, 2005

    Harry Gaynor, a longtime fighter for peace and justice, died in Chicago on Aug. 19 of heart failure. He was 90. Born in 1914 in Brooklyn, N.Y., of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Gaynor’s family moved to Chicago...

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