Tag: Organizing

Documenting City College’s Fight for Free City

February 23, 2021February 24, 2021 The Guardsman LaborUnions, history, SaveCityCollegeCoalition, ESL, Melvin Wong, Educators, ACCJC, Organizing, HigherEd, propa, Shayna Gee, Mickey Ellinger, community, EducationForAll, Vicki Legion, students, PublicEduation, Marcy Rein, teachers, PeoplePower, FCMAT, AFT2121, Movementbuilding, Henry Giroux, resistance, FreeCollege, PM Press, freecity, TuitionFree, education, BookReview, gentrification

A book review of “Free City! The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All” and an interview with the authors.

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Neon Girls: Professor Worley’s First Union

October 12, 2020October 16, 2020 The Guardsman unions, Jennifer Worley, Sadie Peckens, Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power, Organizing, Grassroots

City College English Professor Jennifer Worley’s recently published memoir shares a history of ground up organizing for change. “Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power” describes how Worley and her colleagues united to push for workers’ rights, forming a powerful and effective stripper’s union.