Welcome to the latest edition of Strike Mic – Voices from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition in light of the recent strike at Indiana University. Today for Strike Mic, we spoke with Zara Anwarzai, a graduate worker and organizer with the Indiana Grad Workers Coalition. She summed up the state of the strike so far and talks about IGWC’s next …
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On the first day of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers strike, organizers postponed picketing due to inclement weather conditions. However, while it rained WFHB News spoke with several demonstrators to provide a glimpse into what students and faculty have to say. Everyday that we can, WFHB’s Strike Mic will bring you to the frontlines of this movement, allowing …
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On Sunday, April 10, a 97.8 percent affirmative vote by IU graduate workers set into motion the largest indefinite strike Bloomington has seen in decades. Everyday that we can, WFHB’s Strike Mic will bring you to the frontlines of this movement, allowing you to understand the issues and the action through the voices of the participants themselves. The graduate workers …
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On April 10th, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers opened a virtual strike authorization vote. The strike vote was tallied on Monday afternoon with 97.8 percent voting in favor. 1,031 total votes were cast with 1,008 voting in favor of striking and 23 voting against it. That means a strike will proceed from April 13-15. WFHB News volunteers spoke …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 11th, 2022. Later in the program, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers voted overwhelmingly in support of a strike, which is set to happen later this week. WFHB News spoke with several members of the organization in light of recent headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, Bloomington …
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This week, we speak with Dan from Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity. MAPS is an exemplary grassroots abolitionist group, which arose out of the 2016 National Prison Strike and, specifically, the Kinross uprising in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dan lays out this history, and gives us an inventory of COVID-19 in Michigan prisons, based on a zine of prisoner …
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This week, we speak with a group of grassroots labor organizers formerly employed at No Evil Foods, a socialist-themed vegan foods company. They describe their efforts to organize a union at the company’s Asheville manufacturing plant, and No Evil’s subsequent efforts to bust the union – leveraging the COVID crisis – and eventually outsource their work in order to close …
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This week, amid a spate of prisoners’ strikes, we share our monthly round up of prison disturbances for June 2021, compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Prisoners are hunger striking across the continent, agitating for safer conditions, and pushing back against labor exploitation. We share an excerpt of the story entitled Prisoners Strike Against Racism and Colonialism in Canada’s “New Residential Schools” …
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This week on Kite Line, we have a wide variety of ongoing prison news- ranging from the recent executions of prisoners in Terre Haute to a prison disturbance in St. Louis. Afterwards, we share a conversation that was sent to us from an outside supporter of the ongoing Saskatoon Correctional Facility hunger strike. In this conversation, Cardinal explains what led …
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On this episode of Partisan Gardens, we are sharing a vital summary of the ongoing mass farmer protests in India. For almost six weeks, Indian farmers have blocked the major highways leading into the capitol, New Delhi. More than 100,000 people are maintaining tent cities on the highways themselves, in conjunction with a broader movement that mobilized 250 million farmers …
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