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Simpson: Why is Corporate America fanning the flames of violence in Chicago
Blog Post, May, 08 2013
Bob Simpson
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“At times like this when CPS is making an attempt to close the most schools at one time in the nation, I don’t think you need another Columbine or Connecticut or another suicide because of bullying.” --- Sherise McDaniel, Chicago Public School pa...
Simpson: Keep Pope alive: One of 54 Chicago schools on the death list
Blog Post, April, 26 2013
Bob Simpson
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A cacophony of young voices competed with the low whistle of a cold wind on a gray Chicago spring day as children skipped down the sidewalk in front of Pope Elementary. The school is located across from Douglas Park on Chicago’s West Side in the N...
Simpson: The Lost Woods of Rachel Carson
Blog Post, April, 19 2013
Bob Simpson
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Rachel Carson had a life-long love affair with nature that was accompanied by a deep and terrible sense of loss because of the human destruction wreaked upon the biosphere. Although Carson’s literary fame is based on only 5 books, she also wrote n...
Simpson: The Chicago school closings: Finding truth amidst the lies
Blog Post, March, 23 2013
Bob Simpson
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It was a grim Thursday afternoon on March 21st as the news trickled out that 61 Chicago school buildings would be closed and that 54 school programs will be axed. The closings are heavily clustered in the poorest mostly African American and Latino...
Simpson: Chicago’s deadly border crossings: lives in the balance
Blog Post, March, 02 2013
Bob Simpson
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All across the poorest working class areas of the city you can hear the same refrain. To get serious about defusing gang violence, people need good paying jobs and rational economic development to drastically reduce poverty. In areas of the city w...
Simpson: My old neighborhood is now multiracial--why is that a problem for some people?
Blog Post, February, 21 2013
Bob Simpson
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If multiracial communities like Wheaton can make racial diversity work, the lessons of that experience would be a great gift to the movement for social justice.
Simpson: The West Side of Chicago says NO! to school closings
Blog Post, February, 15 2013
Bob Simpson
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The USA needs an educational system dedicated to liberating young minds, not forcing them to endure corporate dictated soul shriveling curricula and mind numbing endless testing. We could stand aside and allow our educational system to become a ch...
Simpson: Confronting the KKK in rural Maryland: June 1971
Blog Post, January, 03 2013
Bob Simpson
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Although now considered a generally blue liberal state, Maryland was not always like that. Just check out the state song with its pro-Confederate, anti-Lincoln lyrics. Located south of the Mason-Dixon Line but north of the Old Confederacy, Marylan...
Simpson: Fight for $15! Because we can’t survive on $8.25
Blog Post, December, 27 2012
Bob Simpson
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WOCC is a new union in Chicago, barely a month old, but has already pulled off several successful public actions including banner drops at Macy’s department store, marches and a sit-in at Chicago’s upscale Magnificent Mile (aka MagMile) shopping d...
Simpson: Is the Mob cleaning up at Chicago's O'Hare Airport?
Blog Post, December, 08 2012
Bob Simpson
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Mayor Emanuel's latest O'Hare Airport janitorial contract seems to be coming with pinkie rings and tailored silk suits attached. Yes, City Hall is reaching out to the Outfit again, renewing a friendship with the Mob that dates back at least to May...
Simpson: My Chicagoland Black Friday in words and pictures
Blog Post, November, 27 2012
Bob Simpson
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Walmart stocks up on products manufactured under deadly sweatshop conditions. It organizes Black Friday sales knowing they can touch off riots in their stores. Then Walmart sends security guards and police after peaceful demonstrators who only see...
Simpson: Will worker justice take flight at Chicago airports?
Blog Post, November, 26 2012
Bob Simpson
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A contract recently negotiated by UNITE-HERE Local 1 and signed by O’Hare concessionaire HMS Host is a godsend for airport workers because of its wage increases and better health insurance.
Simpson: Don Moore 1942-2012: A lion who roared on behalf of public education
Blog Post, November, 13 2012
Bob Simpson
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It’s easy to stereotype public policy wonks as data driven, numbers crunching, analytical geeks with horn-rimmed glasses and bad haircuts who provide the research for the real organizers who go out into the real world andmobilize for social change...
Simpson: Educational apartheid in Chicago and the black teachers revolt of the 1960's
Blog Post, October, 26 2012
Bob Simpson
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Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) organizer Brandon Johnson, who is a black man, recently spoke about a conversation he had with veteran black educator Dr. Grady Jordan about racism in the schools today. Jordan told him, “Black teachers fought hard. T...
Simpson: Seven days that shook the Windy City: Reflections on a Chicago teachers strike
Blog Post, October, 02 2012
Bob Simpson
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"The CTU is teaching the USA a lesson in working class love and solidarity. It’s a transformational moment for the membership of the CTU and its allies. How can they transform the horn honks, the raised fists, the friendly waves and the kind words...
Simpson: Chicago teachers join Elwood IL warehouse workers to confront Walmart
Blog Post, September, 21 2012
Bob Simpson
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Striking teachers from the Chicago Teachers Union(CTU) had joined Warehouse Workers for Justice(WWJ) at a rally aimed at Walmart to protest its employee abuses and the dumping of millions of dollars into school privatization efforts.
Simpson: The U.S. Postal Service is essential to our democracy and our economy
Blog Post, August, 13 2012
Bob Simpson
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The free exchange of ideas is critical to representative government and was one of the reasons why the US Postal Service(USPS) was created. At its founding the Postal Service had a deliberate policy of subsidizing the mailing of newspapers and oth...
Simpson: The Chicago Teacher Revolt—- of 1933
Blog Post, August, 03 2012
Bob Simpson
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Depression Era teachers understood the importance of organizing resistance to the corrupt oligarchy who had made Chicago’s school funding crisis the worst in the nation.
Simpson: Corporate America wants inexperienced teachers in the classroom
Blog Post, July, 23 2012
Bob Simpson
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Corporate funded attacks on public education and teachers’ unions have portrayed higher paid, more experienced teachers as the villains of the current financial crisis. It’s good-bye, Mr. Chips and sayonara, Ms. Frizzle.
Simpson: The New Chicago School Budget Strangles Public Education
Znet Article, July, 22 2012
Bob Simpson
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The 2013 Chicago Public Schools budget received a resounding thumbs down at a community forum
