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Teachers and allies won't take "no" for an answer for the schools our students deserve (video/mp4 2.5MB)
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Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 11:29pm PST
Empowered: OEA in the state building!! (video/mp4 3.4MB)
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Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 9:15pm PST
OUSD School Board meeting shut down! Oakland is a union town! (video/mp4 2.6MB)
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“On strike shut it down
Oakland is a union town!”...
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 10:43pm PST
Day Five of Oakland Teachers' Strike: OUSD School Board Budgeting Meeting Shut Down (video/mp4 8.5MB)
Oakland teacher Evelyn protests the OUSD board scheduling a meeting to enact budget cuts while teachers are out on strike....
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 10:43pm PST
Get up! Get down! Oakland is a union town! Stand with striking teachers and their students (video/mp4 7.4MB)
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Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 10:12pm PST
"If your school don't teach you how to fight for what's needed, they teaching you to go through life and get cheated." (video/mp4 3.5MB)
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"That’s what y'all are doing — teaching the students how to fight. You’re not just teaching them the facts of what happened, you’re teaching them...
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 10:09pm PST
Day Four of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Rain or Shine, Boots Riley, and March for Better Schools (video/mp4 5.9MB)
West Oakland Middle School teacher Kamisha describes how the Oakland Unified School District thinks it's fine that 800-1000 students across three campuses have no school nurses. Only through the kindness of a local non-profit do these students receive any medical care....
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 9:15pm PST
Message from OEA on Day Three: Stop Lying OUSD and Bargain in Good Faith (video/mp4 5.1MB)
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The Oakland Unified School District has a history of misinforming our communities and they’re at it again. We’re here to clear things up....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 10:50pm PST
Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Lincoln Elementary Teacher and Message from OEA (video/mp4 2.6MB)
Stacy, a second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary, says students deserve better support, school nurses and lower class sizes....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 10:50pm PST
Isabel Toscano, OEA teacher at Oakland High School on strike (video/mp4 2.0MB)
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"Our students need stability... Many of my colleagues would love to stay in teaching, but the conditions are really not there for them... Mone...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 4:52pm PST
Interview with Pastor Perkins from Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church (video/mp4 20.7MB)
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As the strike continues, Taylor Memorial is supporting the strike by hosting hundreds of children and providing free hot breakfasts and lunches....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 4:48pm PST
Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Keith Brown, Minister Perkins, and Oakland High Teacher (video/mp4 99.1MB)
At the mid-day rally in Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland Education Association President Keith Brown reports on bargaining efforts with the Oakland Unified School District, before leading a march to the State Building to support OEA negotiators. "We as educators are winning because we have the power!"...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 4:48pm PST
Day Two bargaining update from OEA president Keith Brown (video/mp4 2.3MB)
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The billionaire privatizers that bought the Oakland School Board want to see 24 of Oaklands 86 public schools closed in the next year and inevit...
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2019 7:13pm PST
Day Two of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Picket Lines, Bargaining Update, Messages of Solidarity (video/mp4 1.2MB)
Teachers and allies picketed in front of schools across Oakland again on Day Two. Magdalene Armstrong and her daughter picket in front of their school, Futures Elementary in East Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2019 7:13pm PST
Marching down Adeline to G) Public Schools (video/mp4 5.0MB)
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Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2019 11:16am PST
Too legit to quit. Come rain or shine, we fight for students all the time. (video/mp4 3.3MB)
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Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2019 11:16am PST
Teacher from Roots (video/mp4 3.1MB)
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Despite fierce opposition, OUSD voted to close Roots Middle School on January 28....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2019 11:16am PST