Global Solidarity for Chicago

"Teachers are placed in a position where they have to defend themselves and their students to save our system of public education.  I applaud and support the teachers, clinicians and paraprofessionals in Chicago for their courageous act.  You take this bold action on behalf of our nation.  Si Se Puede," Dolores Huerta, president Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing, Co-Founder United Farm Workers.

The Chicago Teachers Union wants to thank the many individuals and organizations who have written letters of solidarity or contributed to our Solidarity Fund over the last few weeks. The list below represents the many organizations to which the many individual contributors belong and organizations who have themselves written letters of support. People across the country and the world are looking at our confrontation with the Chicago Board of Education as a key fight against the specious attacks on our public schools and the teachers and paraprofessionals who make them work. Thank you for this tremendous outpouring of support that will help sustain us in our struggle for educational justice. See the map below and the list along with it (zoom out to see more far-flung supporters).

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• ACLU of Colorado  
• Amalgamated Transit Union (statement)
• American Federation of Teachers (National Convention)(statement)
• AFT Local 59
• AFT Local 604 (Crest Hill, IL)
• AFT Local 1650 - Henry Ford Communuty College
• AFT Local 1839 – New Jersey City
• AFT Guild, Local 1931
• AFT – Pennsylvania (statement)
• AFT – West Virginia 
• American Federation of Teachers Staff Union (statement)
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
• Baltimore Teachers Union
• Boston Teachers Union (statement)
• California Federation of Teachers
• Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, Local 4343, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO
• Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign
• Cleveland Teachers Union Local 279
• Colorado Humanists
• Comisiones Obreras de Cataluña (statement)
• Communication Workers of America, Local 2222 (statement)
• Community Education Task Forces (Rochester, NY)
• Concerned Committee Against School Closures in the Western Cape (statement)
• Cook County College Teachers Union (statement)
• Coule Region Educators of Western Wisconsin
• DeKalb Classroom Teachers Association 4328 (statement)
• Des Moines Education Association
• Detroit Federation of Teachers
• Dolores Huerta, Foundation for Community Organizing
• Education Minnesota
• Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unionists
• Evanston Firefighters Union Local 742
• Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico (statement)
• Fédération Nationale de l'Enseignment, de la Culture et de la Formation Professionnelle (FNEC FP FO) - France
• Gary Teachers Union, Local 4 (statement)
• Gloria Steinem, Women's Media Center (statement)
• Greater Victoria Teachers' Association
• IBEW Local Union 1914
• Illinois Federation of Teachers
• IFTPE Local 70
• Illinois Organizers Union, Communication Workers of America (statement)
• Intersections: The Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Graduate Association
• Italian American Labor Council of Greater Chicago (statement)
• Jewish Labor Committee (statement)
• Lake County Federation of Teachers, Local 504 (statement)
• LALIT (Mauritius) (statement)
• Lecturers' Employee Organization, University of Michigan (statement)
• Local Education Association of D300 (statement)
• Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (statement)
• Los Rios College Federation of Teachers
• Madison Teachers Inc. (statement)
• Massachusetts Teachers Association (statement)
• Michigan Nurses Association (statement)
• Milwaukee Teachers Education Association
• Minneapolis Federation of Teachers
• Movement of Rank and File Educators (NYC, NY)
• NASUWT, The Teachers' Union (statement)
• National Education Association (statement)
• National Nurses United (statement)
• National Union of Teachers (statement)
• National Union of Teachers - Oldham Branch
• National Union of Teachers’ College Graduates of Haiti
• National Writers Union, Local 1981 (statement)
• New Haven Federation of Teachers, Local 933
• New York State United Teachers
• North Shore Education Association (Highland Park, IL)
• NSW Teachers Federation (Australia)  
• Oakland Education Association (statement)
• Ontario Teachers' Federation
• Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
• Providence Teachers Union
• Public Education Justice Alliance of Minnesota
• Renton Education Association
• Rockford Education Association (REA) (statement)
• San Diego Educators Association
• Save Our Schools
• Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) (statement)
• SEIU Local 721 (statement)
• Stillwater Teachers Association
• Student California Teachers Association (statement)
• Teamsters 79
• Texas State Employees Union/ CWA Local 6186
• The Coalition Against Corporate Higher Education (CACHE) (statement)
• The Education Minnesota Professional Organization (TEMPO) (statement)
• The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly
• The National Union of Teachers, Central Foundation Girls' School in East London
• The Progressive Faculty and Staff Caucus of Indiana University Bloomington
• The St. Louis Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• The Staffordshire Division of the National Union of Teachers
• Thornton Fractional Teachers' Federation Local #683
• Trinational Coalition to Defend Public Education (statement)
• UI Campus Faculty Association (statement)
• Union of Rutgers Administrators (statement)
• Union Solidarity International
• United Educators of San Francisco (statement)
• United Federation of Teachers
• United Federation of Teachers, Charter School Elementary Academy (statement)
• United Teachers of Los Angeles
• UW-Madison Teachers Assistants Association (AFT 3220)
• Vermont State Labor Council (statement)
• Voces de la Frontera
• Waukesha County Technical Educators Association
• William Wall, retired Irish teacher
• Wisconsin Education Association Council
• Wisconsin State Engineers Association