Chicago Teachers Union Memorializes Convicted Cop-Killing Communist

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) honored a convicted cop killer on social media Thursday, praising Joanne Chesimard as a “revolutionary fighter” following news of her death in Cuba.

The union’s official X account posted “Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur,” using Chesimard’s adopted name. The CTU called her “a revered elder of Black liberation” and quoted her saying “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

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Two years into her life sentence, Chesimard escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility for Women when armed accomplices broke her out in 1979. She fled to Mexico, then Cuba by 1984, where Fidel Castro’s government granted her asylum.

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