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DESCRIPTION:Teachers on Strike Are Still Teaching: Union Power & the Fight for 
 Democracy \n\nJesse Sharkey and Beverly J. Silver discuss the power of 
 teachers unions and the fight for racial justice, equitable funding and 
 democracy.\n\nHost: Haymarket Books with co-sponsor Caucus of Rank and File 
 Educators (CORE)\n\nDate and Time: Fri, December 4, 2020 @ 4:00 PM – 5:30 
 PM PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teachers-on-strike-are-still-teachingunion-power-the-fight-for-democracy-tickets-129098299489\n\n***Register 
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 the event. This event will also be recorded and have live 
 captioning.***\n____________________________________________________________\n\nPOWER 
 OF TEACHER UNIONS\n\nFor the past 10 years teacher unionists across the 
 country have built the most powerful strikes in a generation. From red 
 states to blue states, Chicago to Arizona, teachers are rising up to 
 challenge vouchers, privatization and racially disparate school funding 
 schemes.\n\nWhy have teachers been able to turn the tables on the austerity 
 program and charter industry in such a short period of time? What about 
 teacher unions are strategic within the national and global economy that 
 allows them to exercise such tremendous power and success across geography 
 and circumstance?\n\nJoin president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse 
 Sharkey in conversation with Beverly J. Silver, one of the most foremost 
 scholars on the strategic power of teachers' unions. Silver has studied the 
 last 150 years of union power and ascertained some common threads that made 
 miners, steel workers, auto-works, and now teachers so capable of shifting 
 the narrative and balance of power in capitalist countries throughout the 
 world.\n____________________________________________________________\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nJesse 
 Sharkey was appointed president of the 24,000-member Chicago Teachers Union 
 on September 5, 2018, replacing retiring President Karen Lewis. A member of 
 the CTU since 1998, Jesse has been a champion of workers’ rights 
 throughout his career, believing that the Union’s true power comes from 
 the strength of its rank-and-file and their willingness to fight for the 
 betterment of Chicago’s public school students, families and 
 communities.\n\nBeverly J. Silver is Professor of Sociology and the 
 Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins 
 University. She has written widely on the contradictions and limits of 
 historical capitalism, major waves of labor and social conflict, the social 
 foundations of world hegemonies, global inequality, and prospects for a 
 post-capitalist world. She is author of two books, Forces of Labor: 
 Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870, and Chaos and Governance 
 in the Modern World System (with Giovanni Arrighi et al). Among her most 
 recent articles are “Plunges into Utter Destruction and the Limits of 
 Historical Capitalism” (2019) and “Crises of World Hegemony and the 
 Speeding Up of Social History” (2021).\n\nALSO:\n\nBarbara Madeloni, 
 Labor Notes\n\nArlene Inouye, Union Power Los Angeles\n\nAnnie Tan, 
 Movement of Rank and File Educators\n\nDiamonté Brown, BMORE caucus in 
 Baltimore\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/01/18838741.php
SUMMARY:Teachers on Strike Are Still Teaching: Union Power & the Fight for Democracy
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