Pakistan’s Jamat-e-Islami rallies against Muslims’ defamation [video]
PressTV
September 16, 2012
Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s largest religious party staged a protest rally in Lahore protesting against the increasing attempts by the west to defame Muslims and their holy religion.
The protest was attended by thousands of protestors, who chanted anti-US slogan and vowed to work towards bringing the youth of Pakistan together under the ideology of Islam.
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Anti-Japanese Protests Sweeping China [video]
Russia Today
September 17, 2012
Anti-Japanese protests have swept China, as the volatile dispute over who owns a series of islands escalates. The fallout over the archipelago dispute has been widening between Tokyo and Beijing since Japan decided to bypass China and buy the territories from private investors. This comes as Washington and Tokyo agreed to put a second anti-missile defence radar in Japan, claiming it’ll be focused on deterring North Korean aggression. But James Corbett, editor of the Corbett Report website who lives in Japan thinks the system will be deployed for all the wrong reasons.
Protest against anti-Islam film spreading across Europe [video]
PressTV
September 16, 2012
Protest against the now notorious American anti-Islam film is now spreading across Europe.
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Film Insulting Mohammed Failed To Divide Muslims Christians [video]
Syrian Girl
September 16, 2012
I put forward my hypothesis on what i believe could be the true intentions behind the film insulting the prophet Mohammed and how it backfired. The intentions were to divide Muslims and christians, rioting against or assassination of the pope, and to remove Obama and put Mitt Romney in power. But the result has also been a backlash against US imperialism in the muslim world and the blow up of the Libya and Syria narrative of democratic protesters instead of sectarian gangs. However I do believe there this will lead to the election of Mit Romney and the down fall of Obomer.
Occupy Wall Street #S15 NYPD Madness [video]
We Are Change
September 16, 2012
This is some of the major events that took place during Luke Rudkowski live broadcast at the Occupy Wall Street #S15 action. Don’t forget to sign up for notifications on http://www.ustream.tv/WeAreChange in order to get email alerts to when Luke is going live. You can also follow him on http://www.twitter.com/LukeWeAreChange to get the live video notifications, photos and updates from the actions in NYC.
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Major teacher strike in Chicago: Thousands to hit streets
End the Lie – Independent News
September 10, 2012
Twenty-nine thousand teachers and staff in Chicago will strike for the first time in 25 years on Monday. As some 350,000 students are left behind, parents worry over their children’s safety without proper supervision in potentially dangerous areas.
After more than 100 meetings and over 400 hours in negotiations, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) declared they would strike after 11th-hour talks failed late Sunday night. Although both sides claimed to have made strides towards reaching an agreement, CTU President Karen Lewis said there were still issues upon which the two sides could not reach a consensus.
“We have failed to reach an agreement that will prevent a labor strike,” she said Sunday night at a press conference. “In the morning, no CTU members will be inside our schools.”
“This is a difficult decision and one we hoped we could have avoided,” she said. “We must do things differently in this city if we are to provide our students with the education they so rightfully deserve.”
The sticking points in negotiations were a new method of teacher evaluation based on student performance which they feared would lead to layoffs, and rising costs of pensions already promised to retired teachers. Also at stake was a rezoning of school districts that teachers felt would damage the system, and an extension of the Chicago school day, reportedly one of the shortest in the nation.
The Chicago School Board and Mayor Rahm Emanuel had already agreed to a 16 per cent wage increase over four years, countering the CTU’s original demand of 30 per cent. The School Board also offered multiple benefit proposals and a rehiring system for teachers from schools that might be closed due to rezoning.
Chicago School Board President David Vitale said the city had made its “best offer” to the Union.
“This is about as much as we can do,” Vitale said. “There is only so much money in the system.”
“This is not a small commitment we’re handing out at a time when our fiscal situation is really challenged,” he added.
The Chicago Public School system is facing a projected budget deficit of $3 billion over the next three years, a number complicated even further by teacher retirement pensions.
Mayor Emmanuel called the strike an unnecessary and painful move, especially since the two sides had come close to an agreement.
“This is totally unnecessary, it is avoidable and our kids do not deserve this,” Emmanuel said at a press conference Sunday night.
The city’s contingency plans include $25 million of funding for 144 out of 675 schools to open for a half day of supervision, including breakfast and lunch. The schools are not allowed to hold classes without certified teachers under state law. The plan also asks for community centers and churches to aid in sheltering children.
Union officials are concerned over the plan, calling it a “train-wreck”, according to a Reuters report, worried that many of the people supervising children are without proper training, CTU said. Parents are also uneasy about putting students from different schools together in neighborhoods which have suffered from gang-related shootings this summer.
“This is not a strike I wanted,” Emanuel said. “It was a strike of choice … it’s unnecessary, it’s avoidable and it’s wrong.”
The Chicago debate echoes national education concerns as public school systems in many states are introducing new teacher evaluation models that include using student test scores to determine performance in 2012. The list includes Arizona, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Florida. Teachers unions have traditionally been opposed to such measures.
Source: http://rt.com/usa/news/teacher-strike-chicago-school-766/
Hamilton teachers will wear black to protest Bill 115
by Flannery Dean and Julia Chapman
CBC News
September 11, 2012
Hamilton high school teachers will wear black on Wednesday to protest new legislation that freezes their wages, bans strikes for two years and ends their ability to bank sick days.
The Ontario legislature passed Bill 115 Tuesday morning, which imposes a contract on elementary and secondary teachers across the province, as well as 50,000 support staff.
Many local public high school teachers will wear black in protest, said Chantal Mancini, chair of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federations (OSSTF) local 21 bargaining unit.
The OSSTF has also asked its members to withdraw from volunteer and extracurricular activities on Wednesday.
Most teachers are feeling “demoralized” and “as if somehow they have no rights,” Mancini said.
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