Building Alliances With Students and Their Parents

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Since 20 12, at least we've seen in the usa, real turn um in what is often called social justice unionism. Librarians see their patrons every day and know when they reproduce a certain mind set, they are going to be confronted with those consequences immediately. In teacher organizing, we often say that like my working conditions an my student's learning conditions. Not their job. And i think it is that kind of horizontal solidarity between people they serve that can really build power for the future.

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.

Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.

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