
AUGUST 1st People’s Strike! Live Broadcast
Times subject to change
All times Eastern Time
PART I
12:00 – 12:10
Opening and Introduction from PS Broadcast Team: “That’s the way we all became the People’s Strike!”
12:12 – 2:15
COVID-19 in International Context: Neofascism, Sanctions and Resistance with Rose Brewer, Corinna Mullin, and Abdul-Aliy Muhammad
Live commentary from three global hotspots of the coronavirus pandemic, right-wing authoritarianism, and Black/Indigenous-led resistance
Including a Special Section on Sanctions, with commentary on the dual ill effects of the US-Cuban embargo, from a Cuban medical worker
2:15 – 4:15
Education for Liberation: “WE’RE GONNA CHANGE THINGS…PERIOD!”, produced/hosted by Wende Marshall, Matt Meyer and Holden Cession, featuring:
United Teachers Los Angeles President/NEA Vice President Cecily Myart-Cruz; Parents Supporting Parents NY founder and CEO Tenesha Grant; California State LA Professor and Black Lives Matter co-founder Melina Abdullah; Marvin Garcia of Chicago’s Pedro Albizu Campos High School and Community as a Campus public schools program; former NYC Senior Superintendent Bernard Gassaway, author of Education Denied; plus leaders of Philadelphia’s Working Educator Caucus and Para Power group; and student/community leaders from North Carolina, and more
PART II
4:15 – 6:15
People’s Movement Assemblies: A History and How-To, produced by Aleta Toure
6:15 – 8:00
Housing Rights and the Current Crisis, Produced by Stephanie de Wolfe and JT Roane
- On August 1, 2020