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Supreme Court hears case that could undermine CA’s landmark law and farmworkers’ organizing power; Plus: Oakland to reopen schools starting March 30, we hear from the teachers union plus an update on the reparations campaign for Black students

Farmworkers picking strawberries (Photo: USDA)

0:08 – Supreme Court hears Cedar Point Nursery vs Hassid, challenging California’s farmworkers’ labor and union organizing power.

Victoria Hassid is an attorney and the Chair of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.

David Bacon (@photos4justice) is an independent journalist covering labor and immigration; he’s been writing about farmworker organizing, COVID, and guest-worker visas for Capital and Main.

0:34 – Tax call-ins: Susan Lee, Tax Preparer, Certified Financial Planner, (former) host of “You and Your Money” on WBAI in New York.

1:08 – Oakland schools to reopen, with pre-K through second grades coming back first, March 30

Keith Brown is president of the Oakland Education Association, the union representing about 3,000 teachers and school staff across the Oakland Unified School District. 

Kampala Taiz-Rancifer is a teacher and a union member with the Oakland Education Association 

Event: OUSD In-person Instruction Information Session, tonight Tuesday March 23 from 6:00-7:30pm

1:34 – Author interview: Vicky Osterweil (@Vicky_ACAB) is a writer, editor, and agitator and a regular contributor to The New Inquiry. Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Rumpus, Real Life, and Al Jazeera America. Her latest book is In Defense of Looting: A Rioteous History of Uncivil Action.