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Seattle Educators Set To Strike For The Schools Our Children Deserve: Video...
Educators are walking out of the public schools in Seattle on Tuesday, May 18th, joining a one day rolling strike wave of educators unions around the state, with a powerful message for the State...
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Seattle Educators On Strike!: Photos & stories of the struggle
Today was an incredible step forward in the struggle to fully fund education in Washington state: our union, the Seattle Education Association (SEA), went on a one day strike, joining over 50 local...
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“Stop Blaming Teachers, Start Funding Schools”: 30,000 Teachers Walk Out in...
Educators, students, and parents rally in down town Seattle during the one day strike on May 19th, 2015. [photo taken by Jesse Hagopian]The economic justice periodical In These Times recently ran this...
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Ready to Strike for the Schools Seattle’s Students Deserve!
Today, I went to the Strike Captain meeting of the Seattle Education Association (SEA, the union that represents Seattle’s teachers and educational support staff) and I can tell you that our educators...
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Seattle Educators Vote to Strike for “Much more than pay”: Interview with...
General Membership meeting of the Seattle Education Association, September 3rd, 2015 On Thursday, September 3rd, I joined thousands of Seattle educators in a packed downtown concert hall for a general...
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Seattle Educators on Strike!: Walking the picket line, day one
The first day of the strike by Seattle’s teachers and educational support staff was incredible. The solidarity from the community was truly inspirational, and the spirits of the educators are high....
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Seattle Black Lives Matter Organizers: “We are in full support” of the...
Students joined the picket line to make their voices heard The 5,000 members of the Seattle Education Association led a five-day strike that was nothing short of transformative of our education system...
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The Seattle Educators’ Strike for Social Justice: Groundbreaking victories...
The Seattle Educators’ Strike for Social Justice On Sunday evening, thousands of Seattle Education Association members gathered in a general membership meeting and voted to approve a new contract with...
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PBS News Hour: “At a school with a history of social protest, this teacher is...
A couple of weeks ago, Gwen Ifill and the PBS News Hour crew flew to Seattle. They spent one day following me and one day following the richest person who ever lived, Bill Gates, to ask us about our...
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Why Chicago Teacher Sarah Chambers Is Voting To Strike
Chicago teacher Sarah Chambers speaks truth to power In 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union waged a successful strike that revived the lessons of social justice unionism and taught educators around the...
View ArticleLivestream the Revolt: Educators in Solidarity with Oklahoma Strikers
LIVESTREAM "Educators in Revolt: Solidarity with Oklahoma," is a forum taking place in Seattle at the King Country Labor Temple on Saturday March 31st. This forum will feature educators from West...
View ArticlePuerto Rican Teachers’ May Day Strike Brutalized By Police: “We resisted. We...
In the spirit of May Day, International Workers Day, the unionized educators of Puerto Rico went out on strike against mass school closures, layoffs, and the school privatization. These members of the...
View ArticleTeachers and Parents of Puerto Rico Launch Historic Strike & Boycott against...
Today, my third grade son is supposed to take the Common Core high-stakes test, "Smarter Balanced," at his school here in Seattle. He decided, however, that he would rather do a research project about...
View ArticleFrom May Day to Testing Day: Puerto Rico’s Teachers Battle for the Schools...
On May Day, thousands of Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students launched strikes and boycotts to push back against austerity measures that would close nearly 300 schools, lay off 7,000 teachers,...
View ArticleThe “Fight for 15(%)”: Seattle educators prepare to strike for living wages &...
As students and teachers prepare for the start to another school year in Seattle, the contract negotiations between the union, the Seattle Education Association (SEA), and the school district are...
View ArticleA White Supremacist Murdered Two At My Supermarket: Kentucky teacher speaks...
In October, two Black grandparents were gunned down by a white supremacist in a Kroger supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, sending shock waves through the Black community. The shooter was recorded on...
View Article“Proving the impossible”: Teacher’s union president Mercedes Martinez on the...
First Published in The Progressive Jesse Hagopian spoke with Mercedes Martinez, president of the teachers union Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, the Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico or FMPR, as...
View ArticleSeattle Educators on Strike for the Schools Students Deserve!
Members of the Seattle Education Association—the union that represents Seattle’s teachers, nurses, librarians, instructional assistants, office professionals and educational support staff—voted...
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