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“Our opponents have deep pockets and shallow morals.” I like that line!

“And in New York, we’ve yet to hear rhetoric like Lewis’s from union president Michael Mulgrew.”

The UFT’s Mulgrew is Weingarten’s boy. I wonder if he has the ability to think for himself. Lewis has the guts and the right attitude for the job.

The AFT should CANCEL Gates’ appearance immediately.

Glad you asked. ANSWER: A Waiting for a REAL Documentary on Education, not Misrepresentative, Oversimplified, Emotionally Manipulative Propaganda (Agitprop) T-shirt.

Karen Lewis may be the union leader that will definitely shake up the system in Chicago and will make other union leaders in other states look at her for guidance and true leadership. We need someone bold who will not talk through both sides of their mouth to the members and will bring public education back into the classroom of America. I truly feel that she and other union leaders should band together and fight fiercely to get back what was taken away – the right to provide an education to every child in every public school.

Maybe Randi can learn something from Karen. She does not mince words!

I look forward to seeing Karen and her CORE members fight the injustice of all the reforms in Chicago. A change is truly going to happen in Chicago and it’s not going to be Obama’s Change, not with Karen as the CTU President.

Good Luck Karen, I’m in your corner!

Finally a burst of light ,clarity and determination at the end of a hideous dark tunnel.
Congratulations Sister Lewis.The victory of Chicago’s teachers is an inspiration to those of us who have not succumbed to the Bloomberg/Klein/DOE( and their paramours,our “”union”".the UFT)
imposition of fear,dazed confusion and suicidal apathy.
As you know the UFT is by far the largest local in the AFT and for all intents and purposes controls the AFT.They are the militant comrades probable ideological mentors and co-enforcers of the policy of fanatic and constant sell-out to corporate interests of Chicago’s UPC.
They long ago ceased to function as a labor union in any tangible sense.Conditions in NYC’ schools are nightmarish and get worse day by day.
We understand that you have tough road in front of you.Even so we request your assistance.to be even more frank (not to mention realistic) we beg your help.LET US WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD A MILITANT AND EFFECTIVE NATIONAL TEACHER’S UNION. In Solidarity Al Zucker

I would like someone to explain to me how, HOW BILL GATES is a guest speaker at the AFT Convention in Seattle on July 10th??? “..has taken a softer approach to its relationship with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan”. What a polite way of putting it….