Action Now Marches In Solidarity With Low Wage Workers On Strike!
Action Now’s Executive Director Katelyn Johnson was quoted in the following press coverage of the strike:
Salon, “Fast food walkout planned in Chicago”
Chicago Tribune, “Retail, fast food workers rally for higher pay in Chicago”
ABC News, “Fast food, retail workers protest for higher wages outside Union Station”
Colorlines, “Chicago Fast Food and Retail Workers Strike”
Protest: Andrea Zopp Betrays Civil Rights Mission Of Chicago Urban League By Closing Schools
- Progress Illinois, “Community Groups Picket Chicago Urban League, Demand Meeting With Andrea Zopp On School Closings (VIDEO)”
- Chicago Defender, “Community orgs protest outside Chicago Urban League”
Action Now Protests School Closings At Save Our Schools Rally
- The Nation, “Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine”
- Chicagoist, “The Chicago School Closings Protests”
- Chicago Sun-Times, “Protesters block downtown streets over school closings”
- Chicago Tribune, “Mayor says negotiations over, but protesters march on”
Action Now’s “School Board Bullies Bus Tour”
Click for larger image of Action Now photo in Chicago Tribune!
- WGN News, “Angry parents protest CPS closures”
Click for larger image of Action Now photo in Chicago Sun-Times!
- Progress Illinois, “Neighborhood School Advocates Serve School Board Members With Suspension Notices”
- Chicago Public Radio 91.5 FM, “Chicago proposes closing 53 elementary schools, firing staff at another 6″
- CBS News, “CPS Informing Schools Of Closing Plans”
Action Now’s “Faith In Action” Coalition Holds Press Conference To Support Minimum Wage Increase!
Action Now In The News – Violence, Jobs & School Closings
- On February 11th, Action Now leader Charles Brown and Action Now Executive Director Katelyn Johnson were quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times column by Mark Brown about what Chicagoans think President Obama should address in his state of the union speech
- On February 13th, Action Now leader Windy Pearson was quoted in an article in DNA Info about parents calling for an independent probe of school closings
- Romanetha Looper, a teacher at Penn Elementary and a graduate of Action Now Institute’s chapter of the Grow Your Own Teacher Program, was recently profiled in a Equal Voice News article and video about how she helps children through teaching
Action Now Travels To D.C. To Protest School Closings At Department of Education Hearing!
- Chicago Sun-Times, “Chicagoans protesting public school closings at Arne Duncan’s Education Department”
- New York Times, “Education Dept. to Hear School Closing Complaint”
- Huffington Post, “School Closures Violate Civil Rights, Protestors Tell Arne Duncan”
- WBEZ 91.5 FM, “Chicago school closings being investigated”
- Washington Post, “Activists to U.S. Education Department: Stop school closings now”
- Medill Reports, “Chicago residents call school closings a civil rights issue at D.C. hearing”
- WBEZ 91.5 FM, “Chicago activists speak out against school-closings at D.C. hearing”
- Diane Ravitch Blog, “Noble Charters Make Money on Student Fines”
- Huffington Post, “Marsha Godard, Chicago Mother, Fined Over $3,000 For Son’s Behavior At Noble Network Charter School”
- Diane Ravitch’s Blog, “Chicago Charter Fines Mom $3,000 for Her Son’s Misbehavior”
Action Now Joins Low-Wage Workers For Holiday Vigil, March & Arrests!
- CBS/WBBM Radio, “Union Supporters Protest Illinois Minimum Wage”
- WGN News, “Police Ticket Protestors On Mag Mile”
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