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Category: Oakland

  • Teaching Climate Action

    Most students and teachers who look at the existential threat of climate change want to learn what we can do about it.  This is certainly the case in Oakland where…

  • #16 Retaliation for Palestine Solidarity

    Students and educators have been organizing for Palestine and for Gaza in unprecedented numbers— and universities and now school districts have been retaliating against activists in response to pressure from…

  • #15 Make Enough Noise and the State Listens

    The fightback that Oakland teachers, parents, and students gave the Oakland School Board regarding their decision to close multiple Oakland schools prevented those closures— and also got the state government to…

  • #15 Oakland Teachers Organize for Palestine

    This school year much of the major organizing among teachers in the Oakland Education Association has been in response to the ongoing brutal retaliatory destruction of civilian lives in Gaza…

  • #12 Let’s Reimagine Rep Council:

    End the Webinarization of Rep Council   Build a Culture of Discussion and Organizing in OEA. Picture this — a Zoom room full of black boxes, disconnected from one another, sitting…

  • #12 OEA : An Office Without Staff?

    The Oakland Education Association is attempting to function without professional staff in the office.  This summer, OEA’s office manager with 33 years on the job decided to retire at the…

  • #11 Why Our Strike Accomplished So Little

    From the OEA Rank-and-File Caucus  5/18/23 Last month … we proposed some possible actions to maximize pressure on the District to win our contract demands, since Build Our Power (BOP)…

  • #10 Why Wildcat?

    A wildcat strike is any strike not sanctioned by the local or national union. Sometimes they are about local issues— fired reps, forced overtime or unpaid wages (SFUSD!) but others…

  • #10 Oakland Wildcat:  “We won’t take less!”

    On Friday March 24 several hundred Oakland high school and middle school teachers walked out in an wildcat  strike to put pressure on OUSD in the current contract negotiations  and…

  • #9 OEA—Will There Be A Strike?

    The last time Oakland teachers (OEA) negotiated a contract with OUSD, in 2019, it culminated in a seven-day strike. A strike seems likely this year too. Just before the 2019…

  • #7 To Zoom Or Not to Zoom?

    In our last issue we ran comments by educators from Oakland and Berkeley criticizing union meetings on Zoom. We received several local reports and a comment in favor of continuing …

  • #6 Zoom Democracy?

    While going to having meetings on Zoom was obviously the right step at the beginning of the pandemic, it might be time to go back to in-person meetings. Here are two…

  • #5 Thank You Oakland!

    After a hard year and months of mobilizing against closures, hats off to OEA teachers for doing what we all need to be doing: making clear that what is happening…

  • #5 OEA Strikes Over School Closures

    On April 29th, Oakland teachers were on strike for a day to oppose school closures.  Educators picketed in the morning at every school site; most classified employees followed their unions’…

  • #3 FCMAT— The State Enforcers

    “FCMAT Requests Applications of Interest for County Trustee at Oakland Unified School District”.  https://www.fcmat.org/oakland The state and county offices of education are trying to put the Oakland Unified School District…