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Ntanya Lee speaks on Black Work Talk

Just finished listening to this show with my former boss and comrade in the struggle Ntanya Lee talk about the following subjects on “Black Work Talk” podcast:

  • Organizing and building organizations
  • Co-opting of movement language by corporations
  • Freedom for Black people
  • Defeating the right and the neoliberals
  • LeftRoots-a left organization

Definitely worth a listen. I worked with Ntanya Lee when she was the executive director of Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth in San Francisco. My path before and after was more aligned with art, but I have always and will always work for and towards progressive and revolutionary change and Ntanya is someone I look up to to for guidance and direction.

Dig this? Check out some sticker artwork I did for Convergence Magazine

September 17, 2024
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Black Work Talk Podcast- Chicago Teacher’s Strike

“The function of schools for those who are in power is never to liberate those who attend them” -Stacey Davis Gates

This podcast is about the historic teachers strike in Chicago, the racial politics of school closures in predominantly Black and Brown neighborhoods, the privatization of education, and organizing.  And it immediately makes me think of school closures here in Oakland California, and in cities like New Orleans which were taken advantage of after hurricane Katrina.

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Stacey Davis Gates: 

Stacy Davis Gates is the president of the Chicago Teachers Union and the executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. Before her election as president in 2022, Davis Gates had served as vice president and as political and legislative director. In the Fall 2019, she helped to lead a 15-day strike and to negotiate an historic contract that provides for smaller class sizes, ensures a nurse and social worker in every Chicago public school, secures sanctuary protections for immigrant families, and supports students and families experiencing homelessness. In 2017, Ms. Davis Gates was elected Chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization by and for working-class people and our movements. She also serves as a board member for the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE). Currently she is on leave from teaching high school social studies, which she did for more than a decade.

If you dig this check out the art from the Oakland Teacher’s Strike
September 22, 2022
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