Too Long for Twitter Mini Ep! UTLA is on strike in Los Angeles, and like any good socialists we stand in full solidarity with them. Up here in Oakland, OEA teachers are gearing up for a possible strike of their own. Take a listen to the voices on the ground.

On this episode of Too Long for Twitter, we're talking with Tech Worker's Coalition volunteers Amr Gaber and Stephanie Parker! Stand up against your billionaire class boss, because "your company has a contract, has a relationship, is building products that aid and abet human rights abuses. Not just by ICE, but via the US military, via law enforcement agencies, the police!" ... and much more And a huge shout out to Ariela, of United Educators of San Francisco and California Educators Rising, who's speech at the top of this episode is from a Stop Kavanuagh Rally in SF. Solidarity!

We are back! Kristen and Erica talk about the Russian Revolution, and Erica interviews Todd C. about his book, Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Revolution's relevance today. Grab Todd's book here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1113-ey…an-revolution Theme by False Priest @false_priest

We chat with Eric Blanc, our comrade and frequent contributor to Jacobin Magazine about the Teachers Revolts that have swept through the US, and the working class as a whole. Take a listen! And as always make sure to give us a follow on twitter @toofuckinglong. Theme music by False Priest @false_priest

TL4T #14 Interview w. Asad Haider: Mistaken Identity by Too Long 4 Twitter

TL4T #13 AZ Teachers Strike /// A World with Fewer Guns! by Too Long 4 Twitter

The Free Speech Movement was an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Legal segregation existed in the South. In the North there was de facto segregation, racism in practice. In the liberal San Francisco Bay Area employers refused to hire Blacks as bank tellers, car salesmen, hotel waiters, supermarket clerks, among other jobs. In 1964, amidst major fights over civil rights in the Bay Area, the UC Berkeley administration banned all student political organizations from campus. For the first three weeks of its existence the FSM was not called the FSM. Its original name was “The United Front.” It took in all campus organizations that were against the university rules that attempted to restrict student political activity. And The Free Speech Movement demanded and won the right to free speech on campus. In that four-month-long struggle the radicals who led it won the active support and involvement of the entire campus. For the first time since the 1930s, the Left proved that it could lead and gain the allegiance of thousands. Following the FSM as radicalization spread through the national student movement it became clear that we were at a turning point in the New Left of the 1960’s, where activism against the Vietnam War was the most prominent issue, and that a whole generation was open to radical politics.

This week on TL4T we've got Part 1 of our 2 part episode with No Olympics LA! We're talking with Steve Ducey and Johnny Coleman, both with DSA LA, and the No Olympics LA campaign. From nolympicsla.com "The Olympics puts the interests of the mega-rich and corporate brands above the interests of athletes, fans, and working people in the cities it commandeers. A Los Angeles Olympics (and Paralympics) would primarily service the corporate interests of the IOC and the state and national political ambitions of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Should LA host the Olympics, we will see wide-ranging human rights’ violations and the forfeiture of our city to the interests of contractors, developers, media corporations, and the special interests who designed the bid."

In our latest episode of Too Long for Twitter, Kristen interviews Jacobin writer and editor Alex Press about unionizing graduate students, the challenges facing university workers, and how we fight neoliberal attacks on universities. Opening monologue: Mario Savio, one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, speaking at an on-campus protest in September, 1964. Music: "Me Gustan los Estudiantes" originally by Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra to pay tribute to student revolts in the 1960s, performed by Mercedes Sosa Links: The Mind of Clark Kerr by Hal Draper: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1964/10/kerr.htm Alex Press on labor organizing/education: https://www.thenation.com/article/white-collar-unionization-is-good-for-everybody/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-women-union https://www.thenation.com/article/silence-on-campus-contingent-work-and-free-speech/ Additional articles on student workers' unions: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/unions-campus-higher-education-organizing-college-students https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/nlrb-graduate-workers-unions-universities-administration

This week on Too Long 4 Twitter, we're following up on last week's ep about feminism and taking a deeper dive into a theory of gender oppression and getting into social reproduction theory, aka: how we as worker's reproduce ourselves. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, and Recentering Oppression. Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labor, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399881/social-reproduction-theory/ Tithi Bhattacharya on Doug Henwood's podcast Behind the News: https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/30374357/behind-the-news-what-social-reproduction-theory-offers-us/ Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis Wages Against Housework by Silvia Federici https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/federici-wages-against-housework.pdf Music by False Priest @false_priest