Oh wow, this could be big

We are on the picket line at schools across the district, including here at Manzanita SEED and Manzanita Community School. Join us on the line and tell OUSD to bargain in good faith for our students and our community! #Unite4OaklandStudents

STRIKE DAY 2: Our strike will continue tomorrow. Today we learned that the OUSD board has not authorized the district's bargaining team to bargain in good faith with our team. Tomorrow, we make sure OUSD knows that we will not stop fighting for our students.#Unite4OaklandStudents

Tom Morello — unionist, musician, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine — sends solidarity and song to Oakland Education Association educators on strike! “Hold the line, Oakland teachers!

.60 Minutes *More than half* of the Pentagon budget goes to private-sector contractors. jacobin.com/2022/10/pentag…

You're tell me the trillion dollar pentagon budget is a way to siphon money from the working class to private corporations??

NORMALIZE NOT HAVING THE OWNERS TAKE THE TROPHY/TALK FIRST. WILL SHOUT IT FOREVER.

As climate-related damages hit, remember that this crisis is not due to generic "human activity". Excess emissions are due overwhelmingly to the core states of the global North, and the ruling classes that control the systems of production, energy and national legislation.

Nice work, Senator Joe Manchin !

i like teaching lefty theory as much as the next guy but I can rarely do better at explaining the connection between capital and social-political domination than just pointing at what the guys with the capital do and say

Norwegians making us look stupid as hell and we totally deserve it.

Mapping Police Violence finds more than 1,200 people have been killed by police so far in 2023, surpassing last year’s record for deadly police violence. Police killed more people in America this year than any other year in recent history. mappingpoliceviolence.us

US teachers on average spend 28 hours of their work week in face-to-face instruction. Finland? 21 hours. Japan? 18 hours. Who could have guessed that giving teachers more time time to plan, assess, give feedback, engage in professional learning, etc. would improve outcomes?

An ambulance being attacked on video. And still our leaders do nothing.

My survey of worker leaders found that Black Lives Matter was the social movement that worker leaders most cited as a "major" influence on their decision to unionize in 2022 Anti-racist activism *can* spur unionization 👇

Leftists are justified in criticizing neoliberal antiracism—but, as I explain in the piece below, only focusing on this is empirically one sided and strategically unhelpful Building working-class unity & power requires tackling racial oppression head on laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-rac…

What's happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable. A school turned shelter for around 12,000 people was hit by Israeli airstrikes again today. Six of our UNRWA colleagues are among those killed. These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now.

regardless of the election’s results it’s obvious this country has gotten way more rightwing especially amongst men and i think a lot of that is what is fed to us online, we have to figure out a way to stop every dude under 35 from turning into crypto hitler

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.