After Year of Mobilization on Both Sides of the Bars, California Prisons End ‘Gladiator Fights’ Program
Submitted by R Totale on Sep 28 2019 10:02
Statement from Oakland Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and family members of California prisoners on recent news announcing the end of the bloody “Gladiator Fight” program, known as “Incremental Release.”
"When You Saw Us, You Didn't Want Us": Tenant Struggles in Pasadena
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 29 2019 20:39
L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement
Submitted by R Totale on Apr 24 2019 18:34
LA Teachers Strike Over the Emptying Out of the City's Classroom
Submitted by AfricanPrint on Jan 26 2019 19:37
Following the six-day teachers' strike in Los Angeles, January 14-22, 2019, a look at union demands, contract results, and a union with a history of following the commands of the capitalist Democratic Party.
"The writing is on the walls": Interview with a striking LA teacher
Submitted by R Totale on Jan 23 2019 22:04
At the time of this writing, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have been on strike for a total of six school days. The school district for which these teachers work, Los Angeles Unified, is the second largest in the United States. Salvo, a working-class paper for the greater LA area, spoke with Claire, a member of UTLA, about why teachers are striking over much more than a simple pay raise…
Striking For The Future of Education: Interview with a Los Angeles Teacher
Submitted by R Totale on Jan 14 2019 20:00
More than 30,000 educators in the country’s second-biggest school district of Los Angeles are poised to strike Monday, January 12 for the first time since 1989. In the aftermath of the inspiring wave of teacher strikes and actions in 2018, LA teachers are preparing to fight not just for their own jobs, but to defend a vision of democratic and equitable public education against the attack from neoliberal corporate privatizers.
The History of a One-sided Dialogue With Todd Ashker
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 29 2018 21:10
Historian Denis O'Hearn writes about his relationship with Todd Ashker, one of the leaders of the 2011-2013 hunger strike movement in California prisons. This article first appeared in Counterpunch.
The Short Corridor: How the Most Isolated Prisoners in America Took on the System, and Won
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 29 2018 20:55
An article from the LA Review of Books giving a history of the mass hunger strike movement that challenged solitary confinement in the California prison system.
The Occupation of Alcatraz
Submitted by Reddebrek on Mar 15 2017 19:27
A history of the occupation of Alcatraz island by the Group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) a coalition of native American activists and documentation published to explain the occupation.
1912: The San Diego free speech fight
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 19 2017 19:56
A history of the most violent of the Free Speech Fights. A combination of police brutality and vigilante terror was unleashed against the IWW and the workers of San Diego, including torture and murder.
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