{"id":232,"date":"2020-11-05T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2020-12-15T20:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:43:47","slug":"context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/context\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Union Organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the groups organizing for the potential event of a Trump coup were social justice union organizers. This type of organizing is important because it allows rank-and-file members to push for the specific causes that align with their beliefs. While a more cautious educational union may consider election-related politics to be unrelated to education, many educational organizers, particularly social justice organizers, recognize that national and local politics alike have a deep impact on students.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is social justice union organizing?<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

-Social justice union organizing utilizes frameworks of Ella Baker<\/a>\u2019s people power through rank-and-file governance and Paulo Freire\u2019s problem-posing model of education in their transformations as well as their organizing structures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-Social justice unions align under the common purpose of advancing social justice goals in their communities through the power of rank-and-file educators. The transformation of unions into social justice unions generates the people power to make substantial changes.\u2074<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

-Rank-and-file educators must play active roles in their unions and in these mobilizations in order to transform not only their specific institutions but also their communities and our society as a whole.\u2076<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Why is social justice union organizing important right now?<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

-Politicians don\u2019t run the country, people do! When we use our people-power in the form of nonviolent mass noncooperation, history and logic say we win.\u00b3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

-\u201cLabor unions are a bedrock institution in any democracy and have always had a special role to play in defending democracy in society\u201d (Carl Rosen, via LaborNotes)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

-As workers, students, and educators, we need to stand up to a coup attempt with our most powerful tool: ourselves.\u2074<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

-Educators teach BIPOC students, students who are immigrants and Dreamers, disabled students, and LGBT students. In the event of a coup enabling another Trump presidency, says union organizer Darrin Hoop, \u201cthere\u2019s gonna be blowback that will affect our kids.\u201d\u2077<\/span><\/p>\n

What are social justice unions doing?<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

-Preparing themselves and their members for mobilization of mass nonviolent noncooperation that will grant the people a bottom-up legitimacy by turning the public against the usurpers through a rhetoric of steady control versus weak illegitimacy.\u00b3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

-Calling emergency meetings and engaging with their communities to plan and organize around decisive action.\u2075<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

-Using every moment as an opportunity to advance multiple forms of justice.\u2074<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of the groups organizing for the potential event of a Trump coup were social justice union organizers. This type of organizing is important because it allows rank-and-file members to push for the specific causes that align with their beliefs. While a more cautious educational union may consider election-related politics to be unrelated to education, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-mhikida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}