The Minneapolis teachers’ strike kicked off this week with a huge turnout. With the George Floyd uprising, Minneapolis saw the rebirth of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. During the Derek Chauvin trial which coincided with the police murder of Daunte Wright, community members were once again brutalized with tear gas and rubber bullets, and the Twin Cities were crawling with National Guard. Against this backdrop, it comes as no surprise that the teachers who do the labor of nurturing the younger members of our society are on strike for racial justice. All of their demands are directly connected to the Black struggle.

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