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A little ways back (sorry about the delay—you know what happens in June at school) The Maestr@s spoke with UCSC Professor Dana Frank about the situation in Honduras a year after the coup. We covered a lot of ground, thanks to coffee and enthusiasm about the people’s movement in a Central American nation ravaged by military coups and corporate globalization. MP3, 1 hr. 10 min....

Over the past few weeks, the teachers have spoken with Ramiro Medrano, a Watsonville Brown Beret, and Shannon Young, a reporter for Free Speech Radio News based in Oaxaca Mexico. The conversations have given a great deal of context to the debate about Immigration reform and border policies. Teachers 4 Class War airs every Monday at 6 PM on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM. Ramiro: 1 hr. / Shannon: 54 min. We also discussed the challenges facing FSRN and alternative media in general: 7 min....

The Teachers spoke with two organizers of the Reel Work Labor Day Film Festival, already in progress, along with Lisa Smithline, who worked on "The People Speak," Howard Zinn's final production. We talked about the film, Zinn's work, and central role to the work of Educators and Workers in addition to Historians and political activists [MP3, mono, 46:57]....

The teachers interviewed Students and Teachers Marching up the Central Valley to Sacramento, making their voices heard to protect funding for education in California, whether Elementary, University, or somewhere in between. We spoke with Jenn, Manny, Clay, Naomi, & Jose about why they're marching. 25 minutes/MP3 format....

Marla from ORN, the Olympic Resistance Network, lays it out: shady development, gentrification, misplaced priorities, corporatism, profiteering, hyper-nationalism, and police state control on stolen Indigenous land....

The teachers interviewed Linda Nathan this week. She's the author of "The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School," about her experience as founding headmaster of Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, the Boston Arts Academy. We also hear from ARE, the Association of Raza Educators, some of whom traveled to Chicago for a Teachers 4 Social Justice conference there, plus news of school closures in LA and Oakland. 1 hr. 8 min....

L@s Maestr@s hablamos con Alfredo Lopez Alvarez de OFRANEH, la ORGANIZACION FRATERNAL NEGRA HONDUREÑA, sobre las luchas varias de la comunidad negra en un pais bajo gobierno defacto. Con 21 muertos en mas que cuatro meses del golpe de estado, la gente de Honduras estan en crisis diariamente....

On Monday we spoke with James Loewen, researcher, author, teacher, and history-doer. His latest book is a how-to guide for teachers, with the aim of reclaiming history from boring dates and names and replacing a vibrant sense of connection to the past. Teachers for Class War airs every Monday at 6 PM on Freak Radio Santa Cruz. 30 min., mp3 format, mono....

In recent weeks the Maestr@s have spoken with teachers in Kent, Washington who started the year on strike, and teachers in Richmond, CA who started the year with a Strike Authorization Vote. There's also an update on the South Central Farm....

Kevin Kumashiro speaks with Teachers for Class War on Free Radio SC about reframing education debates, politics of education and realities of classrooms from grade 2 through teacher training programs, looking at intersections of race and sexuality for youth, as well as Asian American experiences....