Link Roundup: Some Random Stuff
This week’s post is basically just a collection of calls to action, art pieces, short thoughts, and useful research resources from various community members mixed together. We hope you enjoy!
A Call to Action, Community Art, and a Research Resource
This week’s post is basically just a collection of calls to action, art pieces, short thoughts, and useful research resources from various community members mixed together. We hope you enjoy!
Support the Capital City Public Charter School Staff Union!
A large majority of the staff of Capital City Public Charter School is seeking recognition of our union!
On Thursday, March 28th, 2024, Capital City teachers, staff, caregivers, and community members gathered to deliver a petition to the school's Board of Trustees. The petition details our request for voluntary recognition and our hopes for a strong collective bargaining agreement for our new union.
Sign on now, to show your support and to encourage the Capital City Board and Leadership Team to recognize our union and make our school a better learning environment and workplace!
Action Network
Follow the CCPCS Staff Union on Instagram
Community Art
Check out Christina Bishop’s tuba playing on her youtube channel.
Here’s a piece of art from the FlyingCircusOrchestra community on Reddit, which supports the rights of marching band performers and the unionization of music education workers.
Marching Arts Access, Safety, and Inclusion Network (MAASIN) is an organization ostensibly dedicated to creating a culture of safety and inclusivity in the marching band performing arts. Its website features a whole lot of liberal platitudes that sound nice, even including a denunciation of colonialism. But that’s just a mask. MAASIN works directly with organizations such as the Drum Corps International (DCI), a “non-profit” notorious for obliterating locally grown marching bands and replacing them with their own. It’s also notorious for protecting abusers and punishing corps members who seek to hold them accountable. Yet another case of the Non-profit Industrial Complex depending on (and creating) the very problems they claim to address.
A Helpful Research Resource for Amateur Labor Historians
The Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University is the largest archive of labor union history in all of North America. Its physical location is at 5401 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202. Much of their archive is online, as well.
Full website of the Walter P. Reuther Library
Blog of the Walter P. Reuther Library
Podcasts from the Walter P. Reuther Library
A great recent example of something I’ve found on there is this record of the papers of William H. Simons, president of AFT Local 6 The Washington Teachers Union from 1964-1991. It gives a brief overview of his life and the history of the WTU, and then lists out all the papers that can be found in the physical archive. It has everything from his letters to union meeting minutes to records of AFT conferences and beyond.
Who are the Angry Education Workers?
This is a project to gather a community of revolutionary education workers who want a new society. We want to build contacts between education workers around the world. The goal is to become a platform for educators of all backgrounds and job roles to share worker-centered inquiries (of any artistic medium) into the education industry under capitalism. We can then workshop and boost each others' work. Doing this, we can help each other figure out how to intervene effectively to build worker power in our local contexts and make education a truly public good. Join our discord community to get involved!
If you are a union, political collective, mutual aid network, or other organization, and want us to publish materials for you, please reach out!