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G&R Episode 9: UC Strike!

G&R Episode 9: UC Strike!

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


G&R Episode 9: UC Strike!

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

ratings:
Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, Bob and Scott talk with three graduate student strike organizers at the University of California (UC) who've been out on wildcat strike since mid-February. We talk about the COLA campaign, the UC's retaliation against striking grad students at UC Santa Cruz and how to conduct a strike in during a global pandemic. 
We're joined by:

Carolina Talavera is a PhD Candidate in medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has just returned from conducting her dissertation research on housing insecurity in London, UK.
Caylee Hong is a Canadian PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to Berkeley, she worked as an attorney in New York City.
Carlos Cruz is a 2nd year PhD grad student and fired wildcat at UC Santa Cruz

More reading:

LA Times: UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate student workers striking for higher pay
It's Going Down: Barricades Go Up in Santa Cruz as UC Wide Wildcat Strike Expands Following Firings
Indybay: An Interview on the Growing Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz
Berkeleyside: UC Berkeley students hold ‘wildcat’ strike for more pay, rehiring of fired workers

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Released:
Mar 23, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.