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They Broke Our Union Let's Fix It Together UTLA!

Surprisingly we settled on nearly all good news stories this week, so if you're looking for some positivity, this one's for you. After an update on the ongoing national strike movement, we discuss the school strike in LA. 60,000 workers shutting down the second largest city in the country's schools and making big wins that will help the whole community. Also this week, two more Trader Joe's locations joined the union movement, one on each coast. Indian farmers have made more wins at the state level after more impressive protests. The RMT reached a deal with Network Rail after 9 months of strikes and made big wins the Tories claimed were impossible. Finally, Starbucks workers demonstrated their organization and resolve by shutting down 100 stores across the country and released their national contract demands.

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Ep 150 - Have You Heard The Good News?

In light of the recently ceased LAUSD strike and their tentative victory, I take a look at the events that got us to this point, using Los Angeles' SEIU Local 99 as the main character. Watch as the state uses every available excuse and tactic to not pay its poorest workers while also wasting its money on a bunch of worthless bullshit.

This a bonus episode with a part two planned that will eventually be a real episode, lol. Idk how this works but that's the plan. This stoty ends around the start of the pandemic, and will pick off again with the appointment of Carvalho as the new superintendent. When is that coming out? Who knows, but be excited for it!

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My name is Axel. I am an English teacher living in [redacted], and this podcast is about school, teaching, theory and practice, as well as the history of education and current education news, covered from a left-wing perspective.

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Listen to this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rezZsMhSIIk

Music Used:
Summer Love, from LISA: the Painful
"Hey Frederick," by Jefferson Airplane

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BONUS EPISODE: SEIU Local 99, a Brief Recent History | Axel Maiz

In this episode, I discuss peaceful protests, labor strikes, and policing.

More on Atlanta's Cop City:
Defend the Atlanta Forest: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
Stop Cop City: https://stopcop.city/
Common Dreams: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/stop-cop-city-is-climate-justice-movement
NPR: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161343394/atlanta-cop-city-protests-explained
The Majority Report: https://youtu.be/k8tr6F-ktEw

More on collective action -
ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
UN: https://www.ohchr.org/en/peaceful-assembly
ILR Labor Action Tracker: https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
ICNL Protest Law Tracker: https://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/

Episode 62 - For the Long Haul

This is the page for my podcast! I am an English teacher and here I talk about a number of topics relating to education in general, and English stuff specifically sometimes, I consider myself a socialist and I talk about these topics from a socialist framework. Hopefully, I am saying things that you don't hear many other podcasts or speakers on education or teachers of English say and maybe you find one of the many lame jokes I make funny.

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