STRIKE BRIEFS All together now: Nine suggestions on chanting
On the Line, the Chicago Teachers Union’s daily strike bulletin, offered nine suggestions for striking teachers to chant on the picket line. Among them, with options in brackets:
Rahm, Brizard, we’re no fools!
We won’t let you ruin our schools! Everywhere we go People want to know Who we are So we tell them We are the union [or: teachers, students, etc.]
The mighty, mighty union
How to fix the deficit [Or: “the school budget”]
Tax, tax, tax, the rich!
Rahm gets Nickelback-ed
Hot-headed rhetoric is to be expected in the middle of a labor strike, but this?
@DanielStrauss4 tweeted a photo of a protester at Monday’s Chicago Teachers Union rally carrying a sign that said “Rahm Emanuel Likes Nickelback.” The Canadian alt-rockers have become the butt of countless jokes in recent years — their very name coming to symbolize all that is mainstream, lame and dumb.
The word “nickelback” is defined on the crowd-sourced Urban Dictionary variously as “the effect of becoming tremendously successful despite having no talent what so ever”; “a tool used to make one’s ears bleed,” and “the source of ALL evil.”
It must be just a matter of time before other signs appear on the line, like “Rahm to CTU: Call me, maybe” and “Rahm: Somebody that we used to know.”