#RedForEd - UTLA Strike

Working People is back for Season Two! In this #RedForEd special, we talk to Trevor, Jesenia, and Danielle, three teachers and members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) who are currently joining their brothers and sisters in a historic strike across the LA Unified School District.

 

Additional links/info below...

UTLA Twitter and Facebook  UTLA website  WeArePublicSchools.Org  Sarah Jaffe, The Nation, "The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike"  Jared Sacks, ROAR, "The Radical Worker Politics of the Los Angeles Teacher Strike"  Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht, Jacobin, "A Mighty Wind"  Lois Weiner, Jacobin, "What LA Teachers Have Already Won"  Lisa Ryan, The Cut, "Why 32,000 Teachers Are on Strike in Los Angeles" David Dayen, In These Times, "'Welcome to the Revolution': LA Teachers Strike Pits Working-Class Power Against Privatization"  Max Rivlin-Nadler & Scott Heins, Splinter, "On the Picket Line With the LA Substitute Teachers Who Refused to Scab" Cesar Hernandez, LA Taco, " 'Tacos for Teachers' Seeks to Feed Teachers if They Hit the Picket Lines" 

 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Benjamin Banger, "June"  Mindseye, "Up and Go"  Benjamin Banger, "New Horizons"