Current Events > Karen - Taught us to fight

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Our union is in deep mourning today at the passing of our sister, our leader and our friend, President Emerita Karen GJ Lewis. We are sending heartfelt condolences to her husband, John Lewis, and her surviving family and friends. She will be dearly missed.
Karen taught us how to fight, and she taught us how to love. She was a direct descendant of the legendary Jackie Vaughn, the first Black, female president of our local. Both were fierce advocates for educators and children, but where Jackie was stately elegance, Karen was a brawler with sharp wit and an Ivy League education. She spoke three languages, loved her opera and her show tunes, and dazzled you with her smile, yet could stare down the most powerful enemies of public education and defend our institution with a force rarely seen in organized labor.
She bowed to no one, and gave strength to tens of thousands of Chicago Teachers Union educators who followed her lead, and who live by her principles to this day.

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I think that the buzz word Karen may have been a brain child of one of her distractors.

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And learn fighting never felt so good

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Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union President and a national phenomenon dies at 67 from brain cancer

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/2/8/22273392/karen-lewis-ctu-cps-led-iron-fist-soft-heart

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rip to a good karen

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E32005 posted...

rip to a good karen

I really suspect that the term was established by haters of Karen Lewis.

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