Podcasts about philly student union

This week we got bags on bags on bags, ya welcome! We start off with Currento Eventos where we discuss a recent fire at the historic Highlander Center that trained historic civil rights and movement leaders, Dump’s 40th environmental law loss this time in Alaska, and we uplift the efforts of Philly youth and Philly Student Union who this past week organized to protest the installation of metal detectors at their high schools. For “What’s Your Baggage” we discuss cancel culture and the recent Cardi B allegations. We discuss drawing lines but really struggle with coming up with “answers.” What do you all think about our conversation use #UnpackBG to share your thoughts! In “Put it in your bag” Estephanie talks about her current game obsession Division 2 and Lina brings in Alexia Arthurs’ book How to Love a Jamaican. Finally for our rotating theme we talk about music groups we would love to have been in and Lina sends us off with a weekly affirmation! As always thank you for listening and leave us an Itunes review, click the donate button, or tell a friend about us! Check out our Patreon and help us reach our goal of 100 Patrons!! DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/BagLadiez https://www.patreon.com/bgladiez Check out our teespring store! https://teespring.com/stores/bag-ladiez If you’d like to support Lina with funds while she studies for her bar exam feel free to donate via cashapp: $RafaelaU Highlander Center Fire: http://bit.ly/2uEFF99 Dump loses again in court: https://nyti.ms/2FReGxH Philly Youth organize for their schools: http://bit.ly/2HPRbaB Division 2: http://bit.ly/2CNMqtZ How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs: https://www.alexiaarthurs.com/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bgladies Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bgladiez/id1073190648?mt=2 Google Play:http://bit.ly/2D7bSJ5 You can Follow us @: Website: www.bgladiez.com Twitter: Bag_Ladiez Tumblr: bgladiez.tumblr.com Instagram: BgLadiez Gmail: bgladiez@gmail.com

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized a rally in front of a center city Trader Joes and the Philly Student Union was there to help support. Immigrant farmworkers across southwest Florida have been working under low wages and have been treated unfairly for many years. Back in 1993 they began organizing and between there hunger strike and their historic 230-mile march in 2000, their organizing ended over declining wages in the tomato industry. By 1998 they won industry-wide raises but wages still remained below poverty level. Today they are called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and they are currently fighting for big chain companies like Trader Joes, Walmart, Stop and Shop, ect to sing off on their fair food agreement. This radio piece was produced by Ericka Johnson and it includes a interview with Oscar from the CIW.

Philly Student Union had a powerful year. As the school year comes to a close, we created this montage to capture the highlights of the 2009-2010 school year. Thanks to all of the people who helped make this school year so successful and congratulations to all of our graduating members!

Months ago, when the school district first announced that it would be closing William Penn HS, almost no one doubted that that would be the case. However, thanks to the quick and effective organizing of the community around William Penn, the school is going to remain open and there is a new plan to turn it into a cutting edge career and technical school. The building, located on Broad and Master Sts., is on prime real estate for developers, and there was a lot of pressure to close it so it could be put up for sale. However, the strong and organized messages put forth by the Committee to Revitalize William Penn made it clear that the district could not get away with ignoring the school's problems for decades and then saying that is was too much to fix. Congratulations to everyone involved in the campaign to reinvest in William Penn High School! This piece was narrated by Candace Carter and recorded by Dan Jones for On Blast Radio with the Philly Student Union.

As 2008 came to a close, Media Mobilizing Project welcomed organizing groups from across Philly to the 3rd annual MMP Community Building Dinner. This dinner was a chance for Philly Student Union to share our 2008 victories and talk to allies about their struggles and successes. In this piece, Dan Jones talks to attendees (see MMP's Wall of Leaders, on right), including keynote speaker Gerardo Reyes from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.