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A review by piccoline
Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity by Micah Uetricht
4.0
Great, inspiring stuff. I knew very little about the Chicago teachers strike of 2012 before picking this up. After reading, I'm not only encouraged that perhaps broad-based, community-oriented worker action can actually start to turn the tide against our mad rush to dismantle and privatize all our public goods.
If you're a die-hard Gates Foundation fanboy or fangirl, this book probably isn't written to change your mind, though I'd hope that reading it would at least give you pause when you see how many racist and intellectually dishonest actions are being carried out in this process of closing down public schools to start charter schools. It's vile, actually. That part of the book is awfully depressing.
But there's hope. Maybe. Maybe things need to keep getting worse for a while. (Does anyone not see that things are getting worse and have been for a while?)
I'm loving these short Jacobin/Verso collaborations. _Playing the Whore_ and _Utopia or Bust_ are also great quick reads.
If you're a die-hard Gates Foundation fanboy or fangirl, this book probably isn't written to change your mind, though I'd hope that reading it would at least give you pause when you see how many racist and intellectually dishonest actions are being carried out in this process of closing down public schools to start charter schools. It's vile, actually. That part of the book is awfully depressing.
But there's hope. Maybe. Maybe things need to keep getting worse for a while. (Does anyone not see that things are getting worse and have been for a while?)
I'm loving these short Jacobin/Verso collaborations. _Playing the Whore_ and _Utopia or Bust_ are also great quick reads.