Is it just me, or is the opposition to Bernie Sanders getting a little antisemitic in here? 

Check out this panel discussion featuring Katie Halper (Katie Halper Show, Useful Idiots podcast, @kthalps), Eli Valley (Illustrator, Author of Diaspora Boy, @elivalley), and MY RABBI Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago, JVP, Author Wrestling in the Daylight, @rabbibrant). 

Heidi Sloan is running for Congress in Texas' 25th District. She's a farmer, educator, and community organizer. Rachel Zibrat and I talk to her about breaking up Big Agriculture and her BIG ASS canvasses that bring out hundreds to knock doors. 

This week I released two VLOGS! This episode is the audio from both. The first part is my rundown of the week of teaching when the students were fearful of a war with Iran. It was a rough week for educators, ending with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot refusing to give veteran teachers their promised raises. 

The second part, "WARREN, PEACE!" is about the recent lie Elizabeth Warren spread about Bernie Sanders and the hackneyed job of damage control that followed. 

What I love about podcasting is that I basically have phone chats with my friends and release them for you all!

I spoke with my good friend Waleeta, socialist organizer and co-host of the socialist feminist podcast, Season of the Bitch.

www.seasonoftheb.com/

We talk about Bernie, the state of politics, and parenting in Hell World.

Enjoy! 

Anthony is a high school teacher and nonprofit director running for Congress in the 7th District of Illinois. 

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With the release of The Irishmen, there's much talk about the legacy of Jimmy Hoffa Sr. The Washington Post published an op-ed that praised the top-down, cutting corners style of Hoffa. 

This got me thinking about how we beat the top-down bureaucrats in the Chicago Teachers Union in 2010. There are two choices unions have: be member-driven, or be leadership-driven. 

Episode #2 is a banger [air horn]. 

Sara Nelson - President of AFA-CWA

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa - 35th Ward Alderman Chicago 

Halsey Hazzard - Editor-in-Chief The Activist (YDSA)

On today's pod, I chop it up with UTLA activist Erika Alvarez, who talks about the LA teachers strike and the UTLA's recent endorsement of Bernie Sanders. Robert Levertis bell talks about the rank-and-file union movement in Louisville. Abby Agriesti talks about CTU strike support. 

And of course, we talked about Bernie Sanders and unions and education. 

I sat down with Ambria, a middle school social studies teacher in her first year. We talk about our classroom conditions, working conditions, and why we're on strike. I got the text while recording that CTU President Jesse Sharkey and Mayor Lori Lightfoot came to an agreement, suspending the strike.