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"