High school teacher, mom, performance artist - I'm just now realizing those things have more in common with each other than I thought.
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Liz Winfield retweeted
A thousand issues in here, but the reason the head tax dominates headlines isn’t PR — it’s because it’s the only revenue source on the table that actually exists, is stable, and doesn’t shift more burden onto families already stretched thin.
Let’s clarify a matter surrounding the mayor’s job killing Head Tax.
The mayor’s public relations offensive is more about creating and controlling a narrative. In every public appearance, the mayor has tried to pose as a tireless fighter for the working class.
Johnson is neither a hero nor a champion of the working class.
In the mayor’s budget, not a single tax or fee proposed is tied to income. Furthermore, the school board, which is under control of mayoral appointees, has increased property taxes $426 million. Like every tax and fee increase in his budget, Johnson’s school board raising property taxes $426M is another burden on the working class.
With nearly every proposed tax and fee falling on the working class, Johnson and his CTU allies are working tirelessly to portray him as fearlessly taking on “big corporations.”
Don’t fall for the message Johnson is standing up for the working class. It’s a fraud. Johnson needs the Head Tax to dominate the headlines to shift attention away from taxing the working class.
Liz Winfield retweeted
Want to know how Midway Blitz affected attendance at your Chicago Public School. Look it up here: wbez.org/education/2025/12/0…
Liz Winfield retweeted
Our students "are doing the best to grow up and learn in a world that is not always kind to them."
Listen to Lake County Federation of Teachers Member Laura Bohorquez on her students' dreams and what they deserve.
Liz Winfield retweeted
As Black and brown communities have seen direct attacks on their neighborhoods these past few months, more parents are turning to short-term guardianship plans to ensure their children stay with loved ones if they’re detained.
Through all of this, our schools continue to be places of safety, stability, and trusted care. Educators are on the front lines of this crisis every day, supporting students through unimaginable stress. From rapid response teams, walking school buses, and safety protocols, our school communities have stepped up to protect our students and their families.
Every child deserves safety. Every family deserves dignity.
We keep us safe.
Read more: chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/1…
Liz Winfield retweeted
In a powerful letter published this month, CTU Executive Board member and CPS teacher Kat Zamarrón lays out what thousands of educators across Chicago are living every day: our students are being terrorized, and it is our responsibility to protect them.
Kat reminds the city that sanctuary schools are not abstract principles. They are real protocols, real teams, and real people standing between our students and federal agents who have no business near a classroom. From denying entry without a criminal judicial warrant to organizing sanctuary teams, educators are doing the work that every district in this country should be doing.
But protection is not enough. Our students need counselors, nurses, social workers, and trauma support equal to the moment we are living in. That shouldn’t be something we have to fight for. It should be a given.
Chicago’s educators will continue to defend our communities and uphold our sanctuary commitments because every child deserves to enter school with safety, dignity, and joy.
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Liz Winfield retweeted
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Liz Winfield retweeted
While Starbucks baristas strike, we strike too — by not shopping at Starbucks.
The Chicago Teachers Union stands in solidarity with our labor siblings. This fight isn’t just about coffee. It’s about fair wages, fair schedules, respect on the job, and an end to union busting.
Don’t shop at Starbucks. #NoContractNoCoffee seiu.co/NoStarbucks
Liz Winfield retweeted
No contract, no coffee. We stand in solidarity with @SBWUChicago.
Never cross a picket line!
Starbucks baristas have done everything right — organized, bargained, and stood together. But the CEO still refuses to offer a fair contract or end union busting.
If baristas go on ULP strike, the response is DON’T BUY STARBUCKS. seiu.co/NoContract #NoContractNoCoffee
ALT If baristas go on strike, don't buy Starbucks!
Liz Winfield retweeted
ICE is targeting our Black and brown neighborhoods — near our schools, educators, and students.
CTU educators like Tara are standing up to protect our communities. Our city and our union are full of everyday heroes, warning our neighbors so that our friends and loved ones are not taken away from our communities on their way to work or school.
”My message to ICE is to get out of Chicago. No one wants you here. What you are doing is absolutely unconscionable.”
Tara and many other CTU educators are joining parents and neighbors, watching out for their communities. We’re doing this together, to protect one another.
#WeKeepUsSafe
Liz Winfield retweeted
Amidst this unlawful occupation, Chicagoans are uniting in solidarity to reject ICE and Dept of Homeland Security. On CNN, CTU President Davis Gates reminded us what our city truly needs: fully funded schools, protections for queer and trans students, resources for Black students, and federal investment in healthcare—not more tyranny.
#WeKeepUsSafe #FedsOutOfChicago
Liz Winfield retweeted
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino personally joins ICE raid at Chicago laundromat—owner locks him out and refuses entry.
"When we saw agents we immediately locked the doors," supervisor said.
"No one was committing a crime. We were just doing laundry... It’s racial profiling. They ask if they have documents. It’s a numbers game for them."
Chief Gregory Bovino was caught on camera in a video posted on social media saying, "Oh, it’s me. Hey, don’t tell anyone, guys."
The incident occurred at Su Primera Lavanderia—a laundromat on Pulaski Road in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. #DemsUnited
Liz Winfield retweeted
The United States government’s detention of Ruben Torres Maldonado, the Portage Park man arrested by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment, is illegal, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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Liz Winfield retweeted
Sounds like we need a…strike for ALL 👀
Mayor Brandon Johnson lit a fire in Chicago: it’s time for Americans to rise up in a general strike against the oligarchy.
We will fund our schools, jobs, healthcare, and transit—not their greed.
Democracy lives when we unite and take our fight to the streets. #FightOligarchy
Liz Winfield retweeted
Shoutout to @ChicagosMayor Brandon Johnson for calling on worker solidarity.
This is what fighting back looks like.
Thank you @CTULocal1 AND @ninaturner for a night of inspiration and solidarity. The LEAD dinner speakers and especially Nina Turner’s keynote filled my tank and gave me purpose. Hello Somebody!
