Black and Green: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

In February 2018, 20,000 school employees walked out in West Virginia. At least 20,000 more walked out in Oklahoma. Then 40,000 teachers left work in Arizona. Teacher walkouts followed in Colorado, Kentucky & North Carolina. By 2019 Los Angeles & Oakland saw school walkouts.

What issues besides pay are important for teachers? What other school workers should be included in teachers’ demands? How is privatization threatening public employees? Can workers win if their union & Democrats fail to support job actions? What is it like to teach school in Missouri? What anti-labor bills are before the Missouri legislature?

Hear what school workers need to know about labor history & what the “Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights” project can teach them. Who was Lucy Parsons?

Legacy Books and Café

5249 Delmar (near Union) St. Louis MO 63108

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

Scheduled speakers:

Tamala Turner, Industrial Workers of the World

Cris Mann, American Federation of Teachers, Local 691

Dennis F. Shultz, St. Louis Socialists

David May, International Marxist Tendency

Barbara Chicherio, Green Party, former Nat’l Education Assoc [moderator]

The Black & Green Wednesday forums are co-sponsored by the Gateway Green Alliance and the Universal African Peoples Organization.