Podcasts about United Teachers Los Angeles

Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, is back in studio with an update on her union's current negotiations with the second largest school district in the country - and their Fight For Schools Stop Trump-Musk Rally at SpaceX headquarters this Saturday.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.

Election Day is just 12 weeks away, and recent polls suggest former President Donald Trump's lead is shrinking now that Vice President Kamala Harris has entered the race. The Harris campaign spent several days campaigning in key battleground states, and the latest New York Times Sienna poll has the Harris-Walz ticket ahead by four points in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Director of the FOX News Decision Desk, Arnon Mishkin, joins to explain why the Vice President is seeing a boost in her numbers ahead of the Democratic National Convention and break down the latest FOX News Power Rankings. Students have begun their return to classrooms, and so have their phones. School boards and state legislatures across the nation have implemented bans on cellphones to draw children back into learning, with states like New York and California ready to test the waters on bans of their own. While many have touted the positive effects of banning phones in school, parents and some teachers are skeptical. Social Studies Teacher and United Teachers Los Angeles representative at James Monroe High School Glenn Sacks joins the Rundown to explain why he feels bans would be too hard to implement, ways to re-engage students in the classroom and what other factors have led to learning loss. Plus, commentary from Host of The Will Cain Show, Will Cain. (Image Via AP) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election Day is just 12 weeks away, and recent polls suggest former President Donald Trump's lead is shrinking now that Vice President Kamala Harris has entered the race. The Harris campaign spent several days campaigning in key battleground states, and the latest New York Times Sienna poll has the Harris-Walz ticket ahead by four points in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Director of the FOX News Decision Desk, Arnon Mishkin, joins to explain why the Vice President is seeing a boost in her numbers ahead of the Democratic National Convention and break down the latest FOX News Power Rankings. Students have begun their return to classrooms, and so have their phones. School boards and state legislatures across the nation have implemented bans on cellphones to draw children back into learning, with states like New York and California ready to test the waters on bans of their own. While many have touted the positive effects of banning phones in school, parents and some teachers are skeptical. Social Studies Teacher and United Teachers Los Angeles representative at James Monroe High School Glenn Sacks joins the Rundown to explain why he feels bans would be too hard to implement, ways to re-engage students in the classroom and what other factors have led to learning loss. Plus, commentary from Host of The Will Cain Show, Will Cain. (Image Via AP) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election Day is just 12 weeks away, and recent polls suggest former President Donald Trump's lead is shrinking now that Vice President Kamala Harris has entered the race. The Harris campaign spent several days campaigning in key battleground states, and the latest New York Times Sienna poll has the Harris-Walz ticket ahead by four points in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Director of the FOX News Decision Desk, Arnon Mishkin, joins to explain why the Vice President is seeing a boost in her numbers ahead of the Democratic National Convention and break down the latest FOX News Power Rankings. Students have begun their return to classrooms, and so have their phones. School boards and state legislatures across the nation have implemented bans on cellphones to draw children back into learning, with states like New York and California ready to test the waters on bans of their own. While many have touted the positive effects of banning phones in school, parents and some teachers are skeptical. Social Studies Teacher and United Teachers Los Angeles representative at James Monroe High School Glenn Sacks joins the Rundown to explain why he feels bans would be too hard to implement, ways to re-engage students in the classroom and what other factors have led to learning loss. Plus, commentary from Host of The Will Cain Show, Will Cain. (Image Via AP) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I'm overjoyed that our kids now have these opportunities.” Wil Page Climate Justice 6th Grade Math/Science "It was joyful," says Wil Page, reflecting on his journey as a 6th-grade science teacher with 16 years of experience. Growing up in Los Angeles, he navigated the complexities of being the only biracial child in his class. Inspired by his unapologetically Black kindergarten teacher and his parents' involvement in education, he became an activist educator. As a career changer, Page entered education through an alternative teacher training program.  "Take your mental health days," advises Page, who believes in the importance of self-care for educators. As an active member of United Teachers Los Angeles, he's proud of the Black Student Achievement Plan and the exposure to HBCUs. He had the opportunity to create a Climate Justice class to inspire his students to become climate activists. He speaks on the power of a strong mentor community, the Black men that inspired him, and how he's empowering his students to lead the next movement.

“We aren't looking for allies… we are looking for co-conspirators…” Cecily My-art Cruz 6th and 7th English Teacher, President, United Teachers Los Angeles https://utla.net/contacts/cecily-myart-cruz/ “All I knew was Black educators showing us Black excellence on a daily basis.” In this episode, we had the honor of speaking with Cecily My-art Cruz, a passionate educator and president of United Teachers Los Angeles. With 29 years of experience, Cecily's journey in education has been deeply influenced by her upbringing in Los Angeles, where she was surrounded by Black educators who exemplified excellence and instilled a sense of pride in their students. She draws inspiration from her ancestors (including her father!), leaning on their guidance to navigate her path forward as an activist educator. “We've been doing all of this work. It's time to take it to the next level.” Cecily's commitment to her students goes beyond the classroom; she is a fierce advocate for racial justice and equity in education. She emphasizes the importance of representation, stating that "our babies need to see us in these spaces." Through her leadership, she has worked to dismantle harmful systems and create safe environments for all students. Cecily's dedication to her students and community serves as a powerful example of how educators can make a lasting impact by being their authentic selves and advocating for change.

The past few years have brought a huge resurgence in labor organizing across the U.S.—efforts which, from Chris Smalls' founding of the Amazon Labor Union to Cecily Myart-Cruz's work as president of United Teachers Los Angeles, have been driven in large part by members of the Black working class. In award-winning historian Blair LM Kelley's BLACK FOLK, she shows conclusively that this legacy of Black labor organizing stretches back to before Emancipation. Highlighting the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers whose established networks of resistance are still alive today, her narrative treats Black workers not just as laborers or activists, but as people whose daily experiences mattered in their own right. This event took place on July 27, 2023. Kelley demonstrates that the church yards, factory floors, railcars, and postal sorting facilities where Black people worked were sites of possibility, and, as she suggests, Amazon package processing centers, supermarkets, and nursing homes could be the same today. BLACK FOLK is thus not just an epic of American history writ large—it's a vision, too, of our possible future. For this virtual launch event, Kelley will be joined by Robin D.G. Kelley. Get a copy of BLACK FOLK: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/978163149... Blair LM Kelley is the director of the Center for the Study of the American South and codirector of the Southern Futures initiative at the University of North Carolina. Her first book, Right to Ride, won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her writing of Black Folk. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBv1CGteQLc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest school district, will shut down all 1,000 campuses beginning Tuesday as teachers and school staff unions strike for three days. Cecily Myart-Cruz, the president of the United Teachers Los Angeles union (UTLA) joins Tavis to discuss the situation.

Andrew Elrod joins Money on the Left to discuss the political economy of inflation and price controls, past and present. Elrod holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is presently Research Specialist at United Teachers Los Angeles, a 36,000-member labor union. In our conversation, Elrod overturns one of the most common understandings of a central plot point in our collective memory of the 1970s, and which continues to shape dramatic engagement with the problem of “inflation” today: the notion that stagflation was both a consequence of factors exogenous to politics and the catalyst for austerity in the United States and across the world. In doing so, Elrod locates human agency—not autonomous “price signals” or exogenous shocks—as the most formidable instrument for dealing with post-Covid inflation.Link to Elrod's recent essay for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth titled 'Austerity policies in the United States caused 'stagflation' in the 1970s and would do so again today': https://equitablegrowth.org/austerity-policies-in-the-united-states-caused-stagflation-in-the-1970s-and-would-do-so-again-today/

The Los Angeles Teachers union is calling for stricter rules when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations and quarantine protocols. United Teachers Los Angeles is currently in bargaining with LAUSD and has offered what it calls “progressive proposals” that include stricter quarantine protocols and a “continuity of learning” plan to assist students who are quarantining off-campus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we consider the role of organized labor in the crisis of neoliberalism with labor organizer, campaigner, trainer, and migrant rights activist, Valery Alzaga. Drawing on decades of experiences within the global world of organized labor, this episode takes us through Valery's journey in order to elaborate the difficulty trade unions have had in adapting to a world no longer defined by the post-war settlement between capital and organized labor.  In walking us through this journey, Valery sketches a long vision towards a new combat unionism no longer concerned with petty legalisms, but focused on developing and expanding infrastructural eco-systems that make radical and transformative potentials possible. Rather than espouse an "either/or" vision of politics, Valery doubles down on a praxis of creative connection, cross- and inter-organizational alignment, and perpetual adaptation – a kind of multidirectional kung fu, as she calls it.   While this vision focuses on unions and the need to realign these towards offensive positions, that focus is deeply attuned to and considerate of the broader ecology of actors that define the field, and is concerned with how to act and work together towards winning – even when winning means failing forward. For more information on Bargaining for the Common Good, please see incredible reading list put together by the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and the Bargaining for the Common Good Network for The Forge.  Here, you can read about Harmony Goldberg's and Valery Alzaga's reflection on the deployment of Strike Schools and the importance of popular education in the United Teachers Los Angeles struggle of 2019. 

We look to our educators to nurture and safeguard the lives of their our youth. When they support causes like United Teachers Los Angeles' support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), they do the exact opposite... they make Jewish students the target. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-moss6/support

Cecily Myart-Cruz is the President of United Teachers Los Angeles (and the first woman of color to hold the position) and as both a teacher and a parent, she understands the frustrations of at-home learning and the pressing desire to get kids back into schools. But she says there’s much to be considered first -- like how often students should take standardized tests in the coming year, for example. Los Angeles has become one of the models that districts across the country are looking to as they lay plans to return to the classroom, and Cecily discusses how she’s working with challenges presented specifically to Black and Brown students as schools reopen. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com

Today on AirTalk, we breakdown Los Angeles Unified's reopening deal with United Teachers Los Angeles. Also on the show, we discuss the impact remote work has had on the autistic community; talk about the rise of sports trading cards and NBA Top Shot; and more.

Los Angeles Unified School District officials have reached a long-awaited agreement with leaders of the district’s teachers’ union to resume on-campus instruction. The deal with United Teachers Los Angeles was unveiled Tuesday evening. One key condition for allowing students to return? The vaccination of staff. Under the deal, all school staff will have time to receive both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine -- and wait the recommended two weeks to gain full immunity -- before students return. Four of California’s five largest school districts have already announced plans to resume on-campus instruction -- including neighboring Long Beach Unified, as well as Fresno, Elk Grove and San Diego Unified (though the exact date of San Diego’s reopening may still be in flux). UTLA leadership and members have said they would “resist” any move to return to campuses while L.A. County remains in the state’s most-restrictive purple tier, before a comprehensive safety agreement was in place, or before all staff were fully vaccinated. LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner -- who himself has criticized hasty moves toward reopening -- has also called for the vaccination of staff as a precondition for opening schools. Now, L.A. County’s exit from the purple tier is imminent. Yesterday, UTLA said the two sides were “close to a tentative agreement” on safety protocols. Plus, Beutner recently announced that Gov. Gavin Newsom had secured some 25,000 COVID-19 vaccinations for LAUSD -- enough to vaccinate all staff in LAUSD elementary schools. With files from LAist We reached out to UTLA and LAUSD, but they were not available to comment at the time of this broadcast. Guest: Kyle Stokes, KPCC/LAist education reporter covering K-12 and the Los Angeles Unified School District; he tweets @kystokes

Join Black Lives Matter at School activists and educators for a conversation about the new uprising for educational justice in California. ---------------------------------------------------- Education activists Nathaniel Genene, Jesse Hagopian, Taunya Jaco, Denisha Jones, and Cecily Myart-Cruz in conversation about the struggle against systemic racism in schools, how we can win real educational justice and get cops out of our schools and other lessons from Black Lives Matter at School organizing in California and beyond. The event will include also include a statement from Derrick Sanderlin. #carenotcops ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Cecily Myart-Cruz is a teacher, activist and the United Teachers Los Angeles President. The first woman of color in the union's 50-year history – having previously served as NEA Vice President for six years. Cecily has taught for 26 years, at both elementary and middle school levels, most recently at Angeles Mesa Elementary. She is the Chair of the CTA Civil Rights Committee, Chair of the NEA Black Caucus and member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Denisha Jones is a member of the national Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and Director of the Art of Teaching, graduate teacher education program, at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School. Taunya Jaco, a 6th grade ELA/Social Studies teacher, serves as a member of the National Education Association (NEA) Board of Directors, Secretary for the NEA Black Caucus, and Chair of the Civil Rights in Education Committee for the California Teachers Association‘s (CTA) State Council. She is pursuing her doctorate of education at San Jose State University, where she is conducting a qualitative study on the implementation of Ethnic Studies in California K-12 schools and the impact of its implementation on teacher preparation programs. Jesse Hagopian is a member of the national Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and teaches Ethnic Studies at Seattle's Garfield High School. He is the co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School, an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine and is a co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives. Nathaniel Genene is a rising senior at Washburn High School in South Minneapolis. He serves as the student representative to the Minneapolis Board of Education and the at-large member on the City-Wide Youth Leadership Council. He also works with ThriveEd, a nonprofit working to build an educational paradigm shaped by innovation and joy for learners and educators, and Our Turn, an advocacy organization fighting to mobilize young people in the fight for educational justice. Derrick Sanderlin is an artist, musician, and community organizer. He is now organizing with Sacred Heart, co-leading the committee for Racial Equity and Community Safety. He has also joined the efforts of the San José Unified Equity Coalition, whose mission is to reimagine safety across the district and reallocate funds previously used for sworn police officers toward student support positions and resources, restorative justice practices, and a district wide safety plan led by the community. The proposal has been lovingly named the Derrick Sanderlin Resolution to Defund the Police in light of his attempts to de-escalate police violence during the George Floyd/Breonna Taylor protests in downtown San Jose last summer. ---------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by United Teachers Los Angeles, San José Unified Equity Coalition and Haymarket Books While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and organizing work. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/Cglq30AgID0 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join us for a conversation with education activists about the current struggles in public education for safe and equitable schools for all. Sponsored by: Baltimore Teachers Union, Boston Teachers Union, Chicago Teachers Union, Journey for Justice, Little Rock Education Association, Massachusetts Teachers Association, National Educators United, and United Teachers Los Angeles. ————————————————— A conversation with some of most dynamic teacher union leaders, community and student organizers in the country, will invite dialogue on pressing issues impacting public education in this unprecedented moment. They will discuss the importance of a burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement to defund police and the need to replace them with counselors, social workers, nurses and restorative practices in our schools. Intimately connected to this question is how we can ensure that our students and communities are provided with the schools they deserve if and when they reopen in the Fall. ————————————————— Speakers: Priyana Cabraal is a Leaders Igniting Transformation fellow and an incoming junior at Milwaukee School of Languages in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She recently led the fight to get MPD out of MPS and is determined to do more for other Black and Brown youth in her city. She is passionate about creating a significant shift in leadership that results in the dismantling of all systematic discrepancies. She hopes to become a defense attorney after high school to defend those unlawfully prosecuted due to factors such as race, sex, economic status, and immigration status. Eventually, Priyana hopes to run for Congress and advocate for her community. Cabral is of Black and Asian heritage and enjoys visiting her family in Sri Lanka every year. Moira Casados Cassidy is a teacher and activist in Denver, Colorado. She has worked to advance social justice and liberation in Denver schools as a member of the Caucus of Today's Teachers. Cecily Myart-Cruz is a teacher, activist and the United Teachers Los Angeles President. The first woman of color in the union's 50-year history – having previously served as NEA Vice President for six years. Cecily has taught for 26 years, at both elementary and middle school levels, most recently at Angeles Mesa Elementary. As a UTLA Area leader, she has worked with schools, parents, students and the community to oust 23 “bully principals”. Cecily has collaborated with school communities in initiating the year-long boycott of district periodic assessments in protest of excessive testing of our students. She is no stranger in taking direct action, whether it is fighting against co-locations, demanding Ethnic Studies for our students, declaring the end the criminalization of youth, local and statewide lobbying efforts and much more. Jonathan Stith is a founding member and National Coordinator for the Alliance for Educational Justice, a national network of intergenerational and youth-led organizations working to end the school-to-prison pipeline. He has 20 years of experience working with youth and community organizations to address social inequities. As the former Executive Director of the Youth Education Alliance (YEA), he was a critical leader in the School Modernization Campaign that won 3.2 billion dollars for school renovation and repair in the District. He was also a steering committee member of the Justice for DC Youth Coalition that successfully organized youth and their families to win critical juvenile justice reforms in the District. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/KJilE6uOFEw Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Adam responds to United Teachers Los Angeles after one of their tweets about him went viral. Then he recaps his time painting with Natalia. Adam and Dawson each talk about running into a “Karen” recently. They also go over a crow story that went viral over the weekend. Before the break, Adam talks to an inebriated caller. Thanks for supporting today’s sponsors: TommyJohn.com/ADAM Lifelock.com enter ADAM SimpliSafe.com/ADAM Headspace.com/ADAM Geico.com

The Biden administration and the CDC say it’s safe for teachers to return to classrooms before they’re vaccinated. California Governor Gavin Newsom agrees. In LA County, teachers will be eligible for the vaccine starting March 1. LAUSD Superintendent Austin Buetner says elementary schools might be able to reopen if 25,000 teachers and staff get their shots. Meanwhile, United Teachers Los Angeles says it can’t support reopening until in-person staff members are vaccinated and LA County is out of the purple tier. The California Teachers Association also says returning to in-person learning is premature.

On episode 14, we are joined by David Feldman, history teacher and chair of the Human Rights Committee of the United Teachers Los Angeles union to talk about the criminal move to reopen unsafe and underfunded schools and about the pandemic in Los Angeles.

In this episode: The demands are clear, government run Medicare for all, state welfare taxes and income tax hikes, and defunding the police. Those are just three of the demands that one teacher’s union, United Teachers Los Angeles, have set out as conditions to return to classrooms this fall. We are joined by Daniel DiSlavo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and professor of political science at the City College of New York, to discuss the ongoing debate over schools in the fall and the role teachers’ unions in keeping them closed, and keeping cities under lockdown. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/

Rob Long is in for Jim today.  Join Rob and Greg as they welcome encouraging news about a coronavirus vaccine.  They also unload on the United Teachers Los Angeles union for wanting Medicare for All, a moratorium on new charter schools, a wealth tax, and defunding of police before they're comfortable going back into the classroom.  And they have fun with the most predictable news of 2020...John Kasich will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention.

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Jollene Levid honors many of the women in her life, including herself, that are survivors of some form of violence through her work as the AF3IRM Founding Chairperson, a United Teachers Los Angeles union organizer, and social worker. Although the trauma of violence, war and migration may have passed down from generation to generation, Jollene shares that survival and resilience have also been passed down to the current generation. She believes that this strength is our power today and why (for 17 years and counting) she continues to fight for immigrant women's rights against militarism and trafficking of women and children. Learn more about Af3irm on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @af3irm or by visiting http://af3irm.org/ (http://af3irm.org/) To connect with Jollene find her on Facebook or Instagram @jollenelevid It's Filipino American History Month and this month's theme is... Pinay Visionaries: Celebrating Filipina American Women! Learn more at http://fanhs-national.org/filam/about/ (http://fanhs-national.org/filam/about/) Give a shout out to the Pinay Visionary if your life! Reach out to us with any of the options below! -- Receive the latest stories and life lessons from our community by subscribing to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/tfawproject-newsletter%C2%A0 (http://bit.ly/tfawproject-newsletter ) This show wouldn't be possible without our sponsors. Learn more about our active sponsors at https://linktr.ee/tfawproject.sponsors (https://linktr.ee/tfawproject.sponsors) Co-hosted by Jen Amos & Nani Dominguez. Connect with them on Instagram @thejenamos @notesbynani Engage with us on Instagram @thefilipinoamericanwoman

We talk Dan's presentation at recent retirement plan workshop for Los Angeles Unified School District teachers put on by United Teachers Los Angeles.    403(b)wise   Meridian Wealth Management Next Gen Personal Finance The 457(b) Plan (#63) 403bcompare.com (#52)

On Monday, January 14, 2019, members of the United Teachers Los Angeles union took to the streets. For six days, they went on strike against the Los Angeles Unified School District for better conditions for their schools and their students. Nivi interviews Maya Suzuki Daniels, a teacher at San Pedro High School, who participated in the strike. They discuss education, resource shortages, and the importance of paying attention.

This week, can teachers and L.A. Unified shed their acrimony from a strike and work together? Can the district afford commitments it negotiated? School board member Nick Melvoin and UCLA Professor John Rogers discuss the impact of the 7-day strike.

Today, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela is facing a direct challenge to his power. The opposition leader Juan Guaidó, encouraged by, empowered by, supported by and emboldened by the Trump administration, swore himself as President Maduro's interim replacement, even though Maduro is still the democratically elected president of that country. Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, the Organization of American States and the US have also recognized Mr. Guaidó as the country's leader. Mr. Maduro was sworn in as president for a second six-year term on January 10, after a disputed election in May. It is important for Americans to understand that Venezuela is now surrounded by right-wing leaders in Colombia and Brazil, both of which were supported by, if not put in power by the intervention of, the US. In Venezuela, hyperinflation led Maduro to instate a new currency, which in recent months has been losing value as well. More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled the country for lack of food and medicine. All of these problems have been exacerbated if not caused by sanctions and other types of intervention and manipulation of the US. This so-called crisis in Venezuela is not organic; it is caused by external intervention, which the US is so offended by, as it claims Russia has tried to do here. What does this mean for Venezuela? Who is Juan Guaidó, and how has he come to the forefront as the leader of the National Assembly?In the wake of the Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike ending, United Teachers Los Angeles says its members overwhelming support a new contract agreement with the district. The union and the school board still must officially ratify the pact. Another western school district is set to go out on strike. After more than a year of tense negotiations with the school district, Denver teachers overwhelmingly voted to strike late Tuesday. Following two days of voting, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) announced that 93 percent of its members approved a strike after negotiations failed. "Denver teachers overwhelmingly agreed to strike," lead negotiator Rob Gould said during a news conference on Tuesday. Members of the DCTA have begun meeting to make signs, write chants and practice picketing, according to CNN affiliate KDVR.GUEST:Dr. Gerald Horne — Professor of history at the University of Houston and author of many books, including Blows Against the Empire: US Imperialism in Crisis.Dr. Ajamu Baraka — American political activist and former Green Party nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2016 election.Tom Porter — African American Studies Department at Ohio University and former director of the King Center in Atlanta.Henry Roman — President of Denver Classroom Teachers Association.

The teacher strike wave continues as more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles walk picket lines not only for the higher wages that they deserve but also for the well-funded and great schools that the city's working-class students of color have long been systematically denied—a situation that has been exacerbated by a corporate reform-led school board and superintendent dead-set on privatizing the district. UTLA has in recent years been led by a militant, rank-and-file caucus that has shunted aside the old guard's narrow vision of service unionism in favor of a big-picture movement unionism that makes the struggles of teachers, parents and students one on and the same. Sarah Jaffe is Dan's guest for a discussion of the strike, social reproduction and lessons from Rosa Luxemburg (interview was recorded on Wednesday). Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge collection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

The teacher strike wave continues as more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles walk picket lines not only for the higher wages that they deserve but also for the well-funded and great schools that the city's working-class students of color have long been systematically denied—a situation that has been exacerbated by a corporate reform-led school board and superintendent dead-set on privatizing the district. UTLA has in recent years been led by a militant, rank-and-file caucus that has shunted aside the old guard's narrow vision of service unionism in favor of a big-picture movement unionism that makes the struggles of teachers, parents and students one on and the same. Sarah Jaffe is Dan's guest for a discussion of the strike, social reproduction and lessons from Rosa Luxemburg (interview was recorded on Wednesday). Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge collection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

On Episode 39, we talk with former Venezuelan diplomat and activist Rixio Barrios and United Teachers Los Angeles member David Feldman. News & Views: India strike largest in history; Chicago City College teacher's strike; Mike Pompeo speech in Cairo; 2 years of Trump. And .... Bee Sauce! Donate to and Follow CTS! www.patreon.com/CrashingtheSystem www.gofundme.com/crashing-the-system-podcast twitter.com/CrashingDSystem www.facebook.com/CrashingtheSystem/

Why no declaration of national emergency? This is an indication that President Donald Trump is serious. The US is into the 24th day of the government shutdown. There were no votes scheduled in Congress today nor any meetings between Trump and Democratic leaders on today's schedule aimed at ending the longest government shutdown in US history. Trump on Monday said he is standing by his demand for border wall funding. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that Trump sign a stopgap spending bill to buy more time for talks, but Trump responded, “I did reject it.” “I'm not interested. I want to get it solved. I don't want to just delay it. I want to get it solved,” he said. How do we move forward? A federal judge late Sunday stopped Trump's widely denounced attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) birth control mandate from going into effect in 13 states and the District of Columbia by issuing a preliminary injunction, but the fight to protect birth control throughout the entirety of the US continues, as the judge rejected a request to block the rules nationwide. The judge's ruling protects contraceptive coverage in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia. The ACA's birth control mandate requires that employer-provided health insurance plans include coverage for free or low-cost birth control. With its attempted rollback of the mandate, the Trump administration is seeking to dramatically expand so-called "religious exemptions" from the law and allow employers to refuse to provide contraceptive coverage for "moral" reasons.Today, 32,000 Los Angeles educators walked off the job in the country's second-biggest school district. That means about 600,000 kids have no idea when they'll see their teachers again. This is the city's first teachers' strike in 30 years. But this strike isn't just focused on teachers' salaries. The debate is also about charter schools and public education and more money for their students. And while the LA walkout is the first major teachers' strike of 2019, it certainly might not be the last. What's at the crux of this issue? According to the New York Times, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president's behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests. Agents and senior FBI officials grew suspicious of Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president's activities before and after FBI Director James Comey's firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, reportedly helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry. What's going on here? Is the FBI investigation of Trump an overreach of the bureau's power when we account for the history of the FBI and its operations such as COINTELPRO?Eugene Craig III — Republican strategist, former vice-chair of the Maryland Republican Party and grassroots activist.Dr. Jamilyah Parritt — OBGYN and fellow at Physicians for Reproductive Health.Glenn Sacks — Los Angeles Unified School District social studies teacher and United Teachers Los Angeles co-chair at his high school. He was recently recognized by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent Vivian Ekchian for exceptional levels of performance. Daniel Lazare — Journalist and author of three books: The Frozen Republic, The Velvet Coup and America's Undeclared War.

This week, John and Louis discuss the impending teacher strike in Los Angeles Unified School District with KPCC reporter Kyle Stokes, who has reported extensively on the crisis. They also speak with Kyla Johnson Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified, which is facing budget turmoil, school closures and tensions with teachers.

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Leaders of school employee unions in California and nationwide know the future after Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision to strike down mandatory union fees: They’ll have to fight hard in faculty lounges, custodial offices and school bus depots to hold onto each member as anti-union forces try to pull them away.Declining enrollment and the growth of mostly non-union charter schools has already made inroads on membership of local unions, including United Teachers Los Angeles. Teachers union membership in L.A. Unified has dropped from 42,000 to 31,000 since 2007, according to the school system. Now anti-union forces funded by conservatives and corporate interests plan an aggressive campaign to reduce union clout, even to “deliver the mortal blow” LATimes The court's decision overturned a 1977 ruling that found unions can collect fees for non-political work that benefits all workers. Opponents of fair-share laws called the decision a win for workers who don't want to be forced to pay for political speech they disagree with, and claim the move will create more choice in the workplace.Public News Service

This week you get two boss Bitches for the price of ONE: teachers and union organizers Julie Van Winkle And Gloria Martinez! Both work tirelessly for the United Teachers Los Angeles, the second largest teachers union in the US- and boy do they have some eye-opening info about education for YOU!