This episode is dedicated to the recent, inspiring and victorious teachers’ strike in West Virginia. West Virginia teachers went out on strike in late February over low pay and continued attacks on the health insurance plan they share with all other state workers. They stayed out despite an initial deal
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Political Eh-conomy: Political Eh-conomy Radio: BC teachers and First Nations on the frontlines
My guests today help take a fresh look at two issues where British Columbia is on the front lines of bigger social conflicts: that over the future of public education and that over resource development on First Nations lands. https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/podcast-140905-bc-frontlines1.mp3 My first guest is Helesia Luke, life-long public education advocate and member of the board
Continue readingLeft Over: SuperCrusty and the Lazy Opposition Don’t Come to Blows
B.C. teachers’ strike: Union rejects premier’s demand to suspend strike Union says government remains entrenched, inflexibile and unwilling to bargain. CBC News Posted: Sep 03, 2014 10:51 AM PT Last Updated: Sep 04, 2014 7:58 AM PT All of you 5 cent a comment Liberal trolls can say and think
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: On talking about priorities: Oil spills and teachers strikes
On the same day one week ago, teachers in British Columbia began a full strike and the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline was approved by the Canadian government. With such telling coincidences, it is hard not to juxtapose the two broad social conflicts in which BC has become a flashpoint: that
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… to funny. Seems there is a teacher’s strike going on in Chicago. And it is getting nasty. Civility has disappeared in Chicago Teachers Union protests,” says Daniel Strauss, who snapped the pic. Truly. Make fun of the mayor’s mother, declare him worse than Hitler, plant evidence that he’s having
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