Out of the Lab, Into the Streets

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Thursday, April 16 at 2:30 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: I feature two guests this week, in a second show dedicated to celebrating a landmark book and the union victory it documents. New from PM Press, Out of the Lab, Into the Streets, tells the story --- in carefully curated oral histories --- of how academic workers at the University of California won a historic contract for thousands, by which I mean, yes, how exactly they did that, strategically, collectively, in a struggle that offers lessons and insights.  Aleida Garcia Aguirre is one of the three editors of the book, subtitled An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California, and Emily Weintraut is one of nine United Auto Workers worker-organizers whose experience is documented. Aleida Garcia Aguirre is an independent history researcher specializing in studying subjectivation of young revolutionaries in Mexico and Latin America in the 1970s and the social history of student movements and armed organizations in provincial Mexico during the Cold War.  Among her publications are Restless Memories: From Rural Students to Urban Guerillas. Emily Weintraut is a student researcher and teaching assistant in Food Science at UC Davis.

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