Health professionals and elected officials are expected to speak out on Monday in support of the Chicago activists who are now in the 29th day of their hunger strike over Dyett High School on the city's South Side.
Chicago's Dyett High School campus will be converted into an arts-focused neighborhood high school plus an "innovation technology lab," school officials announced Thursday.
Senior citizens from Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood plan to hold a sit-in and prayer circle outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at City Hall on Wednesday morning in support of the Dyett hunger strikers.
Chicago youth organizers are set to protest outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office Tuesday morning in support of the Dyett hunger strikers and against school privatization.
Health professionals are urging Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to intervene in the controversy over Dyett High School so the hunger strike over the school's future can end.
