The people have spoken. Now alders must follow through on their promise to deliver the largest TIF surplus in Chicago\u2019s history for our schools.<\/p>\n
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Send a message to your alder<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What the poll shows:<\/p>\n Simply put: Chicagoans want leadership that fights corporate greed, not leadership that protects it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, members of the Chicago City Council committed to delivering the largest TIF surplus possible for Chicago Public Schools. Mayor Johnson\u2019s budget includes a historic $552 million TIF surplus to protect against Trump\u2019s cuts \u2013 and fill the gap left by the nearly $2 billion in undelivered funds from Springfield.<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s up to Chicago\u2019s alders to keep their promise and vote yes on the $552 million TIF surplus for CPS. And we\u2019ve built a tool to show what happens if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n Open the Protecting Chicago Schools Calculator<\/a> See exactly what your school and ward would lose if your alderperson votes NO on the half billion plus TIF surplus for CPS included in the Protecting Chicago Budget and use the calculator to take action.<\/p>\n Watching Chicago\u2019s Back (and Our Front)<\/strong><\/p>\n Right now, our city faces attacks on two fronts. For months, Donald Trump and his personal ICE army have occupied our neighborhoods, terrorizing our communities. On Wednesday morning, Trump\u2019s authoritarian forces crossed another red line by breaking into a daycare center and abducting an educator in front of children.<\/p>\n But ICE attacks on our lives are just one side of the Trump coin<\/strong>. The other side is billionaires and ultra-wealthy corporations attacking our livelihoods by dodging taxes, privatizing services, and draining resources from our communities.<\/p>\n And how is Trump funding the federal agents terrorizing our neighborhoods and giving tax breaks to billionaires? With the very funds he\u2019s stealing from our schools, SNAP benefits, and healthcare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On Thursday morning, CTU educators and community organizers came together outside Salesforce, Inc.<\/strong><\/a> headquarters to call on the tech giant to stop collaborating with federal immigration forces and to help protect Chicago by paying the corporation\u2019s fair share in taxes.<\/p>\n Salesforce did not choose the path of moral redemption and good corporate citizenship. Instead, it went on soft lockdown, in an attempt to prevent our group from exercising our constitutional right to protest.<\/p>\n Under the Protecting Chicago Budget, Salesforce would only be paying 0.05% of its over $1 billion in Trump tax breaks back into the city<\/strong> to support services that are critical first lines of defense in the very communities that are bearing the brunt of Trump\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n This is exactly why 90% of Chicagoans support taxing large corporations. They see what we see: corporations like Salesforce lining their pockets with billions in tax breaks while our paraprofessionals supply students with school supplies because our district can\u2019t afford rulers and our communities face terror in the streets.<\/p>\n Protecting Chicago isn\u2019t just defending each other from the agents on our streets. It\u2019s taxing the ultra-wealthy and big corporations that Trump is giving billions to.<\/p>\n So the message is clear. Voting YES for the Community Safety Surcharge (a tax on large corporations) and the Protecting Chicago budget is what the majority of Chicagoans want<\/strong>. Our communities are tired of having the budget balanced on their backs while the largest corporations get new breaks.<\/p>\n YOU Take Action, Today<\/strong><\/p>\n And remember the facts:<\/p>\n\n
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<\/strong>CTU Takes Action: Confronting Salesforce, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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