Where is your CVC code?
Our good friend Jaisal Noor had a segment on Democracy Now! last Thursday about the struggle of parents in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago to save Whittier Elementary School, which is being threatened with demolition.
A preliminary deal between the parents, who have occupied the field house for more than a month, and the Chicago Public Schools was struck last Wednesday to bring an end to the dispute. According to the local ABC affiliate, CPS agreed to build a library for the school and to lease the field house to a community group for $1 a year.
Despite this apparent victory, the parents are wisely vowing to continue their sit-in until they have the agreement in writing.
Eric Stoner is a co-founding editor at Waging Nonviolence and an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph's University, New York. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, Salon, The Nation, Sojourners and In These Times.
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This is an awesome story. Here’s another article about it: http://education.change.org/blog/view/one_month_into_sit-in_chicago_moms_have_become_wonder_women?me=nl
It goes to show how nonviolent resistance isn’t just about huge actions involving national politics, but can be directed at local issues. The students will hopefully get a library, thanks to their parents’ unrelenting demands.