Labor Beat covers protests against 'Reinvention' of City Colleges at Chicago City Colleges board meeting
On June 16, 2011 Chicago City Colleges students, teachers, clerical workers and community representatives protested in front of the CCC headquarters, and then attended, under restrictions set up by the Board, the Board meeting. The group discussed a large list of complaints, such as the firing of CCC presidents who are being replaced by outside administrators with no professional history in Chicago; or the fact that the Mayor-Daley-appointed-Chancellor Cheryl Hyman, a Commonwealth Edison exec with no educational experience, has forced through changes that will wreck the City Colleges system.
In the highly restricted public comment portion of the agenda, Nubian Malik, a community organizer, drew the situation into sharp focus: "I'm not going to pretend that this is a democratic process...I'm not going to pretend that you are actually, sincerely interested in hearing what we have to say...I'm not going to pretend that you are not going to aggressively continue to go after your own personal agenda."
The video of the event is available from Labor Beat and is also on You Tube at the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-66qPY1T40
An earlier (May 2011) Labor Beat video also covered the protests against 'Reinvention.' The URL for that video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL24LnjGhow&feature=related
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