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November 7, 2019, Vol. 61, No. 45 Chile 12 Erdogan 12 EDITORIAL No hay victorias fáciles 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 61 No. 45 Nov. 7, 2019 $1 Strike ends Chicago teachers win gains By Sue Davis Employees Union (SEIU) Local 73, neatly the strike. the left-leaning Caucus of Rank-and- summed up their vision of “social jus- However, the contract does not include File Educators, which grew out of CTU’s “Did we accomplish every single little tice unionism” by fighting for “smaller a clause for “affordable housing,” which groundbreaking 2012 strike. Sharkey thing?” said Jesse Sharkey, president of class sizes, fair pay and benefits, fully the teachers raised because about 17,000 proudly told the Nov. 1 Chicago Sun Times the Chicago Teachers Union, during an staffed supports, and justice for families.” Chicago Public School students are home- that the teachers “showed the city what it Oct. 31 victory press conference. “No. But (ctulocal1.org) less— a problem linked to the city’s per- means to care, to put yourself forward, sac- I can say that we moved the needle on The hard-fought, five-year $1.5 billion sistent poverty and racial segregation. rifice and achieve something.” educational justice in the city.” contract includes a 16 percent pay raise Mayor Lori Lightfoot promised to take on A vital part of the union’s winning strat- And that was the point of the 11-day for teachers and a long-overdue 40 per- the issue, though not in the CTU contract. egy was putting participatory democracy strike (beginning Oct. 17 and ending Oct. cent raise for teaching assistants, clerks One very important community win into practice. The House of Delegates, 31) at the country’s third-largest public and other lower-paid workers. was sanctuary protection for undocu- with elected representatives from nearly school system with nearly 400,000 stu- Over $35 million will be devoted to mented im/migrants on school property. 700 schools, met repeatedly to prepare dents, the majority in poor Black and shrinking oversized classrooms, prioritiz- before the strike. Delegates were given Brown families. ing schools with the most at-risk students ‘Bargaining for the common good’ work plans to help them organize daily The 25,000 teachers represented by (read “segregated”), and hiring a full-time To be able to win such a progressive pickets at every school, which totally the Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1 of social worker and nurse in every school. contract, the highly organized union put depended on rank-and-file participation. the American Federation of Teachers, and The city agreed to pay education workers the slogan “bargaining for the common And delegates met often during the strike 7,500 education support staff in Service for five of the days they were out during good” into practice. The CTU is led by Continued on page 6 NYC: Subway protest vs. cop brutality Over 1,000 militant activists The four-hour march, called by enough of that!” Many of streamed into main streets in Black Lives Matter, the Peoples’ the demonstrators posted downtown Brooklyn on Nov. 1 to Power Assemblies/NYC and oth- “Evade” stickers from Chile protest recent police attacks on ers, was an outpouring of anger at in solidarity with youth people of color and young people. police violence. Marchers chanted, there, who helped spark the A few days before, a video went “NYPD, how do you spell rac- current uprising by protest- viral that exposed New York Police ism?” and “No justice, no peace!” ing fare hikes. Department cops attacking a group Protesters flooded one subway of teenagers at a Brooklyn subway station, some jumping the fare — Report by WW staff stop. The Metropolitan Transit turnstiles to assert that free public Authority, which oversees the city’s transportation should be the peo- subway system, and the NYPD ple’s right. have increasingly targeted young In an on-the-scene interview working people of color for minor with New York Pix 11, Nate Peters offenses, arresting them as they of the PPA said: “We are here to attempt to get to school and work. protest NYPD violence, both in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the subways and on the streets. has announced he’ll increase cops The NYPD are modern-day slave patrolling the MTA by 20 percent, catchers. They go around the city allegedly to deal with “homeless- beating and killing people. We ness” and “fare evasion.” came out here to say, “We’ve had WW PHOTO: TONI ARENSTEIN PHOTO: ASH J Labor on the move in U.S. 5-7 Rebuff to racist repression 2,3 Forum on Chile uprising 3 PHOTO: TWU LOCAL 100 ‘Expanding Empire’ 4 EDITORIAL Subscribe to Workers World Impeachment is not enough 10 ☐ 4 weeks trial $4 ☐ 1 year subscription $30 ☐ Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/donate What freedom of the press? 11 Name _______________________________________________________________ Email _______________________________ Phone _________________________ Street _______________________________________________________________ City / State / Zip _______________________________________________________ Workers World Weekly Newspaper workers.org 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011 212.627.2994 Ecuador 8 Bolivia coup? 9 Algeria 10 Page 2 Nov. 7, 2019 workers.org Atlanta Killer cop gets 12 years in Anthony Hill case this week By Dianne Mathiowetz Atlanta ◆ In the U.S. Chicago teachers win gains ...................... 1 Nov. 2— The family and supporters of Anthony Hill NYC subway protest vs. cop brutality ............. 1 filled a DeKalb County courtroom and an overflow room to hear the sentence for ex-cop Robert Olsen. Killer cop gets 12 years in Anthony Hill case .......2 Hill, a 26-year-old African-American veteran, was shot NYC forum: Chile, ‘Thanksgiving’, U.S. strikes .....3 and killed by Olsen in the parking lot of his apartment Chile: ‘They took away our fear’ ..................3 complex March 9, 2015. Housing staff had called 911 seek- Oakland condemns police brutality ..............3 ing help for Hill, who was observed naked and wandering in an erratic manner. ‘Expanding Empire’ ............................4 An Air Force veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, Lessons of Harvard dining hall strike .............5 Hill had been diagnosed with PTSD, but had stopped tak- TWU Local 100 rallies . 6 ing his meds because of damaging side effects. SF school bus drivers’ union.....................6 Cop Olsen had been told the call was possibly for a men- One of the many protests for justice for Anthony Hill. tally disabled person in crisis. He knew that backup was on Contracts, corruption and the capitalist state ...... 7 the way. But immediately upon stopping his patrol car, he Hill Sr., addressed the pain of not hearing Olsen express Journalist arrested on bogus charges .............11 drew his gun, and within seconds he had shot and killed any remorse for killing their son. Anthony Hill. Olsen claimed he was in fear for his life. Judge Dear Jackson then sentenced Olsen to 20 years, ◆ Around the world After six days of jury deliberation, Olsen was convicted to serve 12 in prison and 8 on probation. Ecuadorians review lessons of uprising ...........8 of four of the six counts lodged against him by a grand jury. Olsen was also given five years each on violations of oath Bolivia tense, rightists aim for coup ..............9 While a divided jury failed to convict Olsen of two counts and making a false statement, to be served concurrently. of felony murder, Black jurors successfully made the case He is barred from ever having another job in law enforce- Bolivia: Miners, peasants defend Morales . 9 for guilt on aggravated assault, making a false statement ment, must relinquish his 13 guns, including an AR-15, Algeria: Massive people’s protests...............10 and two counts of violation of oath. The potential maxi- and cannot profit in any way from his case. What the Berlin Wall’s collapse meant ............11 mum length of prison time for these four felony convic- While Hill's family had urged the maximum sentence tions was 35 years. of 35 years, his parents agreed that “some time was better ◆ Editorial Prior to Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson issuing the sen- than no time.” (acj.com, Nov. 2) Impeachment is not enough....................10 tence, four hours of additional testimony concerning At a press conference following the sentencing, Baylor Olsen's record were heard. This included citizen com- Giummo thanked the team of DeKalb prosecutors, who ◆ Noticias en Español plaints against Olsen, impact statements by Hill's mother, pursued the felony murder charges despite knowing there father and sister, and character statements by Olsen's is almost never a win on that charge if a cop is the defendant. No hay victorias fáciles ........................ 12 family and friends. The 57-year-old Olsen was expected to She also expressed the family's appreciation for those who Chile: ‘Nos quitaron el miedo’ .................. 12 make a statement, but he opted not to. had rallied and protested demanding justice for her son. Erdogan quiere armas nucleares . 12 Hill's family described the trauma of learning the details Besides the many who filled the courtrooms, there was a of Anthony's death and the agony of years of delayed trials, continuous presence outside the county building throughout as well as the spurious claim of self-defense by a police- the trial. Actions included a walkout of students from nearby man, who had many less-lethal choices than his gun. Decatur High School on Friday, Nov. 2, who gathered on the Both parents, Caroline Baylor Giummo and Anthony court steps holding “Justice for Anthony Hill” signs. ☐ Workers World 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10011 Join us in the fight Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] for socialism! Web: www.workers.org Workers World Party is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist people are gunned down by cops and bigots on a regular Vol.
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