Chicago Teachers, Verizon Workers and Quebec's Students Prove That Resistance Works

Allison Kilkenney @ The Nation - Teachers in Chicago, Verizon workers, and students in Quebec recently proved that not only are strikes and general resistance and dissent essential to any democracy, they also work.

Despite ongoing efforts by private education lobbyists and a complacent national media working to smear teachers as being selfish, greedy leeches on society, educators in Chicago secured a major victory for themselves and their students.  Read more.