Grandpa Straubhaar with his backyard garden, when he got old enough that he had to move off the family farm into town. I remember lots of lazy summer afternoons spent sitting next to him on the bench against that back fence watching the irrigation system water each row.
My 8yo: Hey, dad, who's that on your shirt? Me: The Golden Girls. My 8yo: Okay. Are they part of the DC universe?
We really need to be talking about the end of ESSER funds, and how so many states have fallen behind in ed funding because ESSER funds were making up the difference, and how many states are facing funding inequities now.
Covid relief money showed real promise in ameliorating learning loss and closing education gaps. But is it expiring too soon?
In the middle of the twentieth century, 1 in 3 U.S. workers were in a union--so a generation of folks either knew personally or through their parents what that looked like. We can help rebuild that.
Everyone who wishes they were in a union should check out @organizeworkers.bsky.social. Thanks to right-to-work laws, so many of us who don't know how to seek out a union, join one or help build one because laws have been passed to purposefully keep us from having that first-hand experience.
Could your workplace benefit from a union, but you have no idea where to start? This article is a great intro to @organizeworkers.bsky.socialjacobin.com/2024/09/ewoc...
Interest in unions and workplace organizing is high, but proactive workers have few opportunities to launch their own organizing drives. The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is trying to chang...
"Courts are allowing unconstitutional and censorious laws to limit the speech of disfavored people who are unlucky enough to live in states governed by conservative majorities."
Federal courts' inconsistent responses to conservative-championed book bans have left authors, performers, and audiences stuck in limbo.
Excellent article with practical tips for unions who want to have the kind of rank-and-file organizing success as UTLA.
United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA pres...