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Figures. Chicago Teacher’s Union President Linked to Former Communist Party Chief and Barack Obama
Gateway Pundit ^ | 9/10/12 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 09/11/2012 1:28:02 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

More Hope and Change… Mike Klonsky, an Obama supporter and former associate of the radicals who formed the terrorist group the Weatherman, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.

Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism. Later he started a blog on the Obama website:

Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.

And get this… Klonsky reportedly shared offices on the same floor with Barack Obama and Bill Ayers at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.

So it should come as no surprise that Mike Klonsky, the former Communist Party leader, is a huge supporter of Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Chicago teachers went on strike today for the first time in 25 years despite the fact that the average teacher salary in Chicago is $74,839 a year.

Michelle Malkin has more on the Chicago education mob.

Obama served with Weather Underground terrorist and neighbor Bill Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge education initiative. Downplaying academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy. Obama served as the program’s first chairman of the board, while Ayers steered its curricular policy. The two oversaw grants to welfare rights enterprise ACORN and to avowed communist Michael Klonsky – a close pal of Ayers and member of the militant Students for a Democratic Society. SDS served as a precursor to the violent Weather Underground organization.

As investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz reported, Klonsky and Ayers teamed up on the so-called “small schools movement” to steer schoolchildren away from core academics to left-wing politicking on issues of “inequity, war, and violence.”

You just can’t make this stuff up.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagostrike; communistchicago; klonsky; sstrike; teacher; teachersstrike
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

If the first one happens, you’re right on all the others except the “soldiers in the street”. They’ll be off fighting. We the people will be the soldiers. If we’re not nuked.


21 posted on 09/11/2012 9:41:41 AM PDT by Terry Mross (2016 THE MOVIE....scarier than any zombie movie.)
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To: KeyLargo

Most of obama’s supporters have no idea what he wants to do. They simply cannot believe he would do anything wrong. The rest are communists and want him to destroy the nation.


22 posted on 09/11/2012 9:42:41 AM PDT by Terry Mross (2016 THE MOVIE....scarier than any zombie movie.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Community Uber Alles!


23 posted on 09/11/2012 10:18:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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