We hear organizers from last night’s Fuck Your Curfew Rally in Oakland, Ca. Later we speak with longtime union worker John Reimann about the pandemic and workers rights and the 40 million dollars owed by the Golden State Warriors to the city of Oakland, California. And Poor News Network explores America’s war on the poor and the rent strike movement happening nationwide.
Guests:
An unknown woman from the Black Organizing Project (BOP) in Oakland, Ca.
Elizabeth Suk, the program director from Oakland Rising in Oakland, Ca.
John Reimann was a carpenter activist in Bay Area Carpenters Union Local 36 (Oakland, Calif.) and Local 713 (Hayward, Calif.) He was the recording secretary of Local 713 for three terms. He participated in the 1973 Bay Area carpenters wildcat strike and was an elected leader of the 1999 wildcat strikes. https://www.thecommunists.net/forum/interview-with-u-s-socialist-john-reimann/