Merrie Najimy, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Assocation

Aimee Loiselle, co-facilitator Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed (SFNDHE) and postdoctoral fellow at Smith College

Joerg Rieger, Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt

Thank you for this session. Karen Ashikeh, Portland Oregon. I work with Sunrise locally and Climate Reality Project as well as DSA Environment and Justice Groups.

With education. How can we remind future generations as well as adults that love can conquer hate?

How can college students know the importance of asking questions, when thinkers are not in class to ask?

Also good morning from Nevada

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KC Wagner- Worker Institute at Cornell ILR, NYC

Hahaha right

Saerom Park, SEIU, DC

Lynne Turner PSC-CUNY, NYC

How can we motivate people without money transactions?

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Question for all : What do you see the role of colleges, community colleges and High School or post HS training for environment technology and related trades? Do you think Industry or Unions or Federal/State should pay for this, with possible stipends for living expenses while training ( perhaps through Dept. of Employment unemployment insurance systems). Role of state legislatures and federal government and how to you lobby for new programs? Can military budgets be used to train military personnel for workers when they leave the military?

True without the community we would not have workers in our government.

Brendan Sharkey, MA labor lawyer - D.S.O'Connor & Associates

Jeff Wheeler, Georgetown School of Foreign Service

Hi, all. Caitlyn Nigro - AmeriCorps VISTA at Catholic Charities USA

Joseph Hower, Southwestern University (Austin, Texas)

Also the money is going to have to come from somewhere because the planet is getting hotter

Trevor Griffey, VP of UC-AFT at UC Irvine

So no matter what the children knowing how to help the planets resources that we use. While also allowing ourselves to evolve into a space age actually in Outer Space

Josh Stern, Temple University, TUGSA-AFT 6290, Dir. of Organizing

Planting seeds. Understanding soil affecting plants s well as educating about trees giving us oxygen

Without air or clean water we will not survive long

And the only species that can do something about it on this planet today and from here on are us humans that actually can learn and have thumbs to be more useful way more than electric devices outside of communications technology. Thank you Zoom

public employees need a state bank to pull our pensions out of wall street

Slowly start incorporating prisons to turn into schools.

Take the money out of making criminals and spend it to educating the citizens

Just in my opinion honestly I feel environmental sciences are more important to focus on in science type classes

Time does always tell the truth of a situation or gathering’s results

Thanks for sharing the links to the NEA packet. Here is the BCG link to our sample Bargaining demands. https://www.bargainingforthecommongood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bargaining-Demands-Memo-Long-12.2020.pdf. also, at our campus, we negotiated for divestment from fossil fuels.

Rich is talking about real, internal rank and file organizing to make demands on our union leadership.

mcase@nea.org

I agree finance the future instead of the present or paying to keep the past alive.

How can we prove to our democratic government that automatic systems worker for citizens instead of a balance of citizens and workers living in a community is going to destroy our constitution beliefs

OMG - this is so instructive!

Robots and computers are not people or persons

This session is all very important and informative. Will the session recording be posted afterwards to share with others? (The information about CUNY’s debt uncovered by our activist-driven research group was striking.)

This is a very insightful and important analysis, Richard. Thanks for sharing this! The impact of financialization on higher ed that you’ve outlined is exactly the kind of phenomenon that BCG is designed to respond to. Your work on this is inspiring!

@Lynne, yes, we will send recordings to all participants next week!

I do believe the recording will be shared. Question for Lily and Joe.

We’ll also post links to recordings on our website.

Thanks in advance for sharing the recordings.

Salem State faculty are heroes for sending out the warning on this!

If you registered on eventbrite, we will send via email to you but if you did not register on eventbrite, make sure to leave your email address so we can share

You can bargain for monthly teach ins to be part of student course work and make this the content.

Just in case, Lynne Turner PSC-CUNY, lynnecturner@yahoo.com

azw59547@gmail.com

bargainingforthecommongood.org

https://www.nea.org/resource-library/bargaining-common-good-sample-demands-safe-and-just-person-learning

cherreneafscme3800@gmail.com, Cherrene Horazuk, AFSCME 3800 - UMN Clerical Workers

josh.stern@tugsa.org

https://www.bargainingforthecommongood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bargaining-Demands-Memo-Long-12.2020.pdf

And good for us to share all of our learnings

So important!

It would be great if The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed would cover some of the issues related to debt servicing. If there’s been coverage in those venues, I personally haven’t seen it.

Here was an article on the Debt Reveal in The Nation - https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/universities-student-debt-reveal/

How can we inoculate members and students from university admins saying the debt is out of their hands and is the fault of the state government defunding education?

Thank you everyone for your time patience and well thoughtful words to explain a very tense and difficult time. I know as long as we can communicate we will or y’all will succeed.

Not by burning masks

Sorry Florida.

From Nevada

Another relevant but more Massachusetts based article on who you should care about University debt by myself and my colleague Joanna Gonsalves https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u2tI6lkDrnayKfY7Yma0GOC5jm-jkTFbJyzGp-F5_EI/edit

You inoculate students from university admins saying the debt is out of their hands and is the fault of the state government defunding education by first, explaining that this is an intentional tactic to keep them from organizing and second, showing them the info and teaching them how to find the info.

Contact information: Dale Templeton- dtempleton@nea.org- NEA Collective Bargaining Director

Question: Paying for training and education especially funding from the military budget to have "college classes" for a VET benefit for education to train climate leaders for change and green careers?

Good resource on how to inoculate against all the boss’s tactics. https://www.labornotes.org/sites/default/files/11HowTheBossKeepsUsDisorganized_1.pdf

any examples of partnering with National Domestic Workers Alliance (ie. nannies )-- overwhelming Black and brown workers. who work in individual peoples home and are "early educators" who are now being asked to assist children with online learning now and are excluded from classic organizing with a union as their workplace is someone's home. Also campaigns around the country are with domestic workers and employers (who may be your union members) - are addressing protections like defunding police/ICE

Create a peace economy through education and then work to keep the planet alive.

experiencing what the adjunct campaing

Connecticut bcg campaign is all about promoting more social workers as opposed to adding police…lots of powerful demands that we can share as well

Reestablishment of PELL grants for prisoners under Federal law equals colleges in prisons. Can these classes focus on environment training options. Colleges DO belong in prisons.

https://www.bargainingforthecommongood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bargaining-Demands-Memo-Long-12.2020.pdf

Invaluable

Thank you so much! This has been the best panel I have seen in ages!

Thanks to all presenters and organizers.

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