FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: LA Teachers Strike; Carl Dix Remembers Nicholas Heyward Sr; Refuse Fascism Banner in the Sky at the Border

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Friday, January 11, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

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This week's show:

LA Teachers Ready to Strike as Public Education Is Under Attack Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school district in the US, are ready to go on strike Monday, January 14. They're fighting for the welfare of a generation of students, for better wages and working conditions, and for the future of public education. Over the past year there have been teacher strikes and protests in Arizona, Colorado, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. We'll be talking with Glenn Sacks, a social studies teacher and United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) Co-chair at Monroe High School in Los Angeles.  Carl Dix Remembers Nicholas Heyward, Sr., a Tireless Fighter for Justice Carl Dix recently wrote, "With the passing of Nicholas Heyward Sr., everybody who yearns  to see an end to the terror police enforce on Black people, Latino people, and others have lost a determined fighter. And I have lost a good friend." Nicholas Heyward, Sr. became an activist when his son, Nicholas Heyward, Jr., was murdered by a New York City cop. When the cop was exonerated for killing a young Black child, Nicholas Heyward, Sr. refused to accept it, and spent his life fighting not only for justice for his son, but for all victims of murdering, brutal police -- and fighting against the system behind the killer cops. Carl Dix is a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party.                               Michelle Xai of Refuse Fascism Los Angeles on The Banner in the Sky at the Border Refuse Fascism is headed back to the U.S/Mexico Border, raising a 25 ft banner to the sky in different languages, and holding a 150 ft banner on the ground which reads: To the World's Migrants & All of Humanity! We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! We'll speak with Michelle Xai from Refuse Fascism LA.