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Trailblazing former Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis dies at 68 February 19, 2021 12:04 PM CDT By PAI
Karen Lewis at the microphone alongside members of CTU Local 1 as she announced a tentative contract agreement was reached with Chicago Public Schools to end a strike, Oct. 10, 2016. | Armando L. Sanchez, AP
CHICAGO (PAI) If you’re looking for who started “Red for Ed,” figuratively if not literally, you’ll find Karen Lewis.
Because it could arguably be said that Lewis, the former President of the Chicago Teachers Union/AFT Local 1, who died in early February at 68 after a long battle with cancer, originated the combination of teacher activism for the kids and for their communities, that unionists in general and teachers in particular empl
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While I am excited for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to usher in a progressive agenda, the crushingly repressive regime in place for the last four years won’t disappear overnight.
Despite significant gains in health care access under the Affordable Care Act, the federal policies of the Trump administration, paired with decreased federal funding, have significantly eroded equal access to health care. Those people most affected by these restrictions are low-income, people of color and undocumented folks, who already face systemic barriers to care due to racist and discriminatory policies past and present.