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Did Community Organizers Bus Out Of State Protesters In To Support Chicago Teachers’ Unions?

Remember when the Tea Party was being accused of being a deceitful, astroturf organization that was secretly on the payroll of secretive right wing organizations, and whose protesters weren’t genuinely interested? Sure, you do. It was just one of the many evidence-free smears used by the Left to try and keep the nascent movement out of the mainstream.

Good Jobs Now, a Detroit Area Community Organizing Organization, Bused Protesters To Chicago to Support Teachers Unions

What terrifying subversives look like, according to the Left

Naturally enough, it didn’t work – largely because there was no evidence for it, and because the Tea Party movement‘s motives weren’t specific or myopic enough to have come from interest groups. However, the same cannot be said for the numerous Leftist protest movements, most of which are focused on getting goodies for one particular interest group, and thus often require more than just the members of those groups to support them.

Exhibit A: Chicago‘s Teachers’ Unions, who recently protested against Chicago’s Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, for doing something or other they didn’t like, and embarrassed themselves in the process. Not only that, but a few of the protesters inadvertently disclosed something suspicious about their affiliations.

EAGnews put up two videos showing the absurdity of the protests – the first hints at the suspicious element while also showing some highly amusing clips of the protesters, but the second goes further into depth and really shows where it comes in. First, the highly entertaining summary clip:

EAGnews’ description of this video should suffice as a preview:

EAGnews caught some humorous sights and sounds from the day, including protesters bused in from Detroit to hold up signs they didn’t understand, as well as a union activist marching uniformly, chanting in rhythm with the collective, only to explain she’s an individual and not a robot!

Other hilarity includes the familiar “Yes We Can” chant, as well as a failed attempt to employ the “mic check” tactic of the Occupy protests.

And then there’s the second video, which takes a shorter segment from the first video and extends it to demonstrate something rather odd:

Did you catch that? The protesters claim they’re not even from Chicago (despite holding signs that say “This is our Chicago”), but were bussed in from Detroit by a group called “Good Jobs Now.”

So the question arises – who exactly is “Good Jobs Now?” The answer is that they are a Detroit-specific Community Organizing outfit apparently devoted to such standard Leftist hobbyhorses as preventing Voter ID laws and protesting pay cuts for public sector workers. Take a look at some photos from some of their previous events to get a general idea of the tenor of the group’s attitude:

Good Jobs Now, a Detroit Area Community Organizing Organization, Bused Protesters To Chicago to Support Teachers Unions

Good Jobs Now, a Detroit Area Community Organizing Organization, Bused Protesters To Chicago to Support Teachers UnionsGood Jobs Now, a Detroit Area Community Organizing Organization, Bused Protesters To Chicago to Support Teachers Unions

Good Jobs Now, a Detroit Area Community Organizing Organization, Bused Protesters To Chicago to Support Teachers UnionsGood Jobs Now, a Detroit Area Community Organizing Organization, Bused Protesters To Chicago to Support Teachers Unions

And that’s just in Detroit. Heaven knows where else they’ve been. However, one niggling question remains – why are they involved in Chicago? How does this help a group like this at all, given that the group’s mission statement says nothing about involvement in other states? After all, those bus tickets don’t come cheap. Wouldn’t their efforts be better spent elsewhere?

Comments (113)

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Continuing to pig out on the apple caramel cake.

    Be with me, lovers of the law.

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  • CatB
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:44pm

    This is nothing new … they have been doing this from 2009 .. my old hometown paper …

    http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2009/08/chris_gautz_column_yes_some_we.html

    SEIU .. bussing in protesters…. ASTROTURF BUS!

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:44pm

    Meanwhile, is my brother, Paul Brennan, actually a terrorist?

    Electrifying, I know. He just voted. Hmmph.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:41pm

    I’m eating this apple caramel birthday cake, and it tastes like soap. Pig out.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:57am

      You are mentally challenged, aren’t you. It’s OK if you are, just wondering if you understand your condition.

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  • claymoremacm
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:41pm

    I am excited about the Riots that will break out when the Obummer loses!!!!

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:42am

      I did like the guys holding the signs “GE pay your fair share.” It’s what I think about every time I hear O-blame-a say it: “Everybody should pay their fair share”. Hurts my ears every time he says it, but the guys with the GE signs? Thank you and thank you again!

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:41pm

    The Occupy movement sucks, by the way. I’m sorry. But it does.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:39pm

    You’re under the influence of “medical marijuana,” now, aren’t you.

    Shucks. It really is Tuesday, May 29th. You only fall asleep overnight.

    Glenn Beck, prophet and my savior, it is Tuesday, May 29th.

    Your people will come to your rescue.

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  • football lady
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:38pm

    Busing stupid people in? So what else is new?

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:37pm

    Meanwhile, CSPAN, just a tiny question. When is the House going back into session?

    What will actually happen to Obama. He won’t be killed. He’ll be condemned. That means temporary punishment.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:34pm

    Just had one of Ayn Rand’s favorite chocolates. Now two. Godiva. If it gives me a heart attack, so? I won’t die. I’ll wake up free, able to walk around Madison. Because my Ma lets me. All I have to do is leave a note or tell her, when I go anywhere.

    Nothing has ever exceeded my happiness.

    I judge. I don’t want to, but it’s part of my job.

    No abortion, no hatred, no cruelty, no war.

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  • YesARealCommie
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:33pm

    Bussing people to actions is a commonplace show of solidarity. Me and 21 other people had our vans rented for us by the union and we drove 20 hours to a demonstration. Though none of us were paid, we were bought lunch! To be honest, some of my comrades in our VANguard couldn’t have appropriately handled encountering a camera person, that’s why there are always media point people appointed before the action. At any action, you can find people who aren’t very good at articulating the talking points. Take a look at the work that New Left Media has done on the Tea Party protests/demonstrations for a great example of that. Hell, I’ve given a few interviews I wish I could take back in my early organizing days. I’ll see you in the streets, righties!

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    • rickc34
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:07pm

      To yesarealcommie-A bus of fools huh. Joke is on you and your buddys on day someone is going to have to pay the bill nothing is free. No hopes no dreams for you and your buddies. Ha ha ha.

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    • let us prey
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:19pm

      You will learn some day commie, and may even come to your senses.
      “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

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    • 65Mustang
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:52pm

      I hope you are not a college-educated OWS. You seem to be proud of your demonstrating abilities but your grammar is atrocious. “Me and 21 other people”…apparently the union thugs aren’t looking for the smartest people in the hood.

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    • capnbrit
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:09pm

      So, let me guess. Surmising from your clever posting, you must have been taught English by union teachers in Milwaukee.

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    • YesARealCommie
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:48pm

      Oh, I’m aware that nothing is free. I’m aware that the money for our trip came from somewhere and I assure you (not that that means much to ya) that the proper channels were gone through to authorize it. I see it as an investment by one generation of workers and organizers in another, really. My comrades and I learned a lot about tactics and brought a lot of information back to our local progressive community, so I’d say the investment was worth it.

      I wouldn’t consider myself an Occupier first and foremost, but I stand in solidarity with them. I like to think of myself as a labor agitator, really, in the vein of Eugene Debs. The people of this nation cannot expect to keep their standard of living when there exists such a dramatic division of wealth. My solution to this conundrum is not to occupy public space overnight like some of my comrades, but to mobilize the workers in order to force the hand of those in charge.

      Oh, no! A grammatical error!? I’ve lost your respect forever! I’ll never convince you to join me in my revolt against capitalism which was totally my goal when I signed up for this site! On the real though, I like how you harp on my mistake but manage to ignore the heinous mistakes of some of your fellow conservatives. It’s okay, all is fair. Hell, I would do it to you. Uncle Alinsky taught that ridicule is indispensable tactic and one that’s hard to counter.

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:44am

      A perfect example of the OUTCOME of communisn, democrats and UNIONS……………DETROIT!

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:09am

      Commie-
      Worthless, do nothing, impressionable little toad. Come to a right to work and right to carry state. Good of your handlers to not throw you into the fire, so to speak.

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:21am

      Why in the He!! would someone want to put themselves in the same camp as Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro,and all the psychos in N. Korea, REALLY! What a LOSER!

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    • YesARealCommie
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:11pm

      Funny you should say that, I do live in a right to work state! Working my butt off to change that. I don’t mind right to carry, I think guns are a necessity to maintain the “right of revolution”.

      Also, I find it interesting that people think that American communism would be the same as North Korean “communism” or Soviet “communism”. I guess you could say that I believe in American exceptionalism because I think the US could take the principles of workplace democracy and egalitarianism and only improve upon them. Marx said that socialism could only take hold in highly developed industrial/technological economies, so when you look at the pre-communist history of places like Korea and Russia, it only makes sense that those attempts at socialism would falter. The US is highly industrialized and our resources are abundant in comparison to, say, pre-Mao China and that fact gives us a leg-up.

      Also, we are far too individualistic to buy into a cult of personality (something I find disgusting about the Democrats love of Obama). Communism is about radical democracy and I think that that aspect of it is what this generation (the generation not polluted with anti-Soviet/anti-left propaganda) needs to be reminded of. It is about extending the right to have your voice heard in the political arena, to the economic arena. The workplace is the last bastion of fascism in this country. Wage slavery is theft!

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:30pm

    Come on, posters. You’re not in favor of living in hell.

    No hatred. No hatred. No hell. It’s always your choice whether you go to hell.

    I’ll be walking about eight miles around Madison tomorrow.

    You people who have been taught to be neo-Nazis can refuse.

    Fanfare. Blast that happy music. “Domino.”

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:45pm

      Tequila does funny things to people. If you are a dope ,it makes you a bigger dope.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:27pm

    You tired if listening to me? I know you’re not.

    Poor, poor Paul Ryan. You’ll be wounded if they try to destroy you. Not killed.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Bilderberg means absolutely nothing, conspiracy freaks.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:00pm

      Is it just me, or did IT’S JUST TIM die and reincarnate as MOUSSIAGILDA? It‘s hard to tell since I stopped reading TIM’s posts quite some time back.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:24pm

    I feel like just writing beauty on this website all night long. It is Tuesday, May 29th.

    Soul by soul we will be healed.

    My poor nephew, Frankie Byrne — the sun just came out — is in Canada, and today was his two-month birthday anniversary. He was taken to the hospital today. Needles and such. He is drooling. He has just been diagnosed as autistic.

    There’s nothing wrong with him. He’s a little saint.

    Soul by soul we will be healed.

    Yes, I’ll be eating plenty of the Subway stuff, and Godiva chocolates, to celebrate my Ma’s birthday.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Yeah, and crack still don’t smoke itself dude!

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    • let us prey
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:53pm

      Five finger death punch for you moussigilda:
      Can you read between the lines?
      Or are you stuck in black and white?
      Hope I’m on the list of people that you hate
      It’s time you met the monster that you have helped create

      You should listen to this band, it sums up how many feel about you.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:11pm

      @let us prey, easy this dumb as* is not worth the effort, it will figure out later that he is the one who got played for a fool and then it will be crying in it‘s mothers basement while sitting in it’s underwear about how it no longer has the freedom to be a as*,

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:17pm

      @let us prey, should read “‘ crying about losing it’s freedom “‘

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    • let us prey
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:53pm

      Common
      How are you man? Been a minute since we have talked, hope you are well. Beet him. That will teach him. Lol

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  • mr.goodvibe
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Does abear eat toilet goers in Canada?

    http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-24/news/31842437_1_outhouse-mauled-canadian-man

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  • Senior1
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:20pm

    So the blaze limits comments to what it agrees with,,,screw you

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:19pm

    I’m going to keep posting. Paul Ryan will walk straight into heaven. With the saved.

    There will be no outright prohibition. Soul by soul we will be healed.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Unions should have never been allowed to get a foot hold here in the U.S because they’re like cockroaches,once they get started it’s hard to exterminate them.Union busting should be a national sport,make it a competition and see how many unions we can destroy,unions suck.

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    • Senior1
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:25pm

      Unions = communism= Marxism=Obama

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    • YesARealCommie
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:02am

      Why do unions suck? Unions have fought for a better quality of life for your average American worker for well over a century. What part of the 40 hour work week do you dislike so much? What part about benefits do you dislike so much? What part of giving people a voice on the job don’t you like? Have you read the history of what it was like before the union movement? Have you read about the terrible working conditions that people, sometimes children, were subjected to? Do you think that corporations would hesitate for a second to lower the pay/benefits for their workers to the lowest, cheapest level they can get away with if the union disappeared over night? Unions are the reason we have a middle class and since union busting became the thing to do with Reagan and Thatcher, we’ve seen working class wages decline while productivity and profits for the owning class are at an all time high. It’s okay, though. Unions needed that reality check. My generation knows what side we’re on, and the labor movement is on the rise once again.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:38am

      Commie-
      Unions, like your affinity for communism, have outlived their need-if it was ever a need and not a parade of lemmings to begin with. The coal mines have safety schmucks all over. The pay is astronomical due to the inherent risks. There. No more need for union thugs. Piss off in the reddest manner you can, and remember as you fall asleep on your Alinsky doll that many peeps here and else where remember exactly what those old communist bloc targets looked like as they fell over and were reset. Did you get a reset button from the commie union lackeys? It is all fun and lollipops until you run out of other people’s money or you royally piss them off first. Wanker.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Managing this situation as masterfully as I am — ain’t it grand –

    No, it is not about twelve or thirteen days ago. Today is Tuesday, May 29th, 2012.

    And I am voting on June 5th.

    There, there. I and God, an uncruel God, and the Holy Spirit, are in charge.

    There, there, Paul Ryan. I know how it feels. Not that bad.

    I hate alcohol. Though prohibition won’t work. Soul by soul we will be healed.

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  • perry1980
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Unions bussing in supporters is nothing new
    Check Wisconsin

    Unions have been destroying America for 50- years.
    It is time to bust them once and for all after November

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  • Senior1
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:17pm

    Black people cheat?………..noooooooooooo!,!,!,,!,

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:08pm

    Yeh… Detroiters know what Chicago needs!

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    • Restored One
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:23pm

      I did not watch the video, I read the text and looked at the still shots. I counted 6 white people (appear white). What racists!

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  • starman70
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:07pm

    Intimidation!

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:03pm

    It wouldn’t surprise me. I have seen the same guy, White hair/Beard, show up protesting Romney, GOP events, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Indiana Union protests. The guy is a hired organizer and professed to organize others, the Blaze spotted him during the Iowa Caucus. This is the Lefts agenda, get into everyones buisness and never leave. I look at the left more and more like a weed, if left unattended, they will choke out all healthy and productive life around them.

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