Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:10 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: RSSEarlier today, more than 200 grad workers rallied in the Ballantine Hall courtyard. Bloomington’s own country musician, Peter Oren, performed for the pickets, playing tunes and talking about his experience with Occupy Bloomington and earlier waves of campus struggle. We are also sharing the words of Carven Thomas, the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:33 — 6.3MB)Subscribe: RSSWelcome 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:58 — 6.9MB)Subscribe: RSSOn 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:02 — 9.7MB)Subscribe: RSSOn 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:21 — 18.4MB)Subscribe: RSSOn 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 76.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | More 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 – …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis 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 …
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