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Oakland teachers and longshoremen plan May Day protests; Plus the 30 year anniversary of the LA Uprising

Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. May 1st, 1992. | Image by Dark Sevier is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

On today’s show:

0:08 – Keith Brown, President of the Oakland Education Association (@OaklandEA) discusses the one day strike organized by Schools and Labor Against Privatization, a coalition of Oakland teachers and Longshoremen.

0:33 – Alex Vitale (@avitale), professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College discusses the 30 year anniversary of the Rodney King verdict and 1992 Los Angeles uprising.