Events

Featured Past Event

Defending Democracy: The Role of South Korean Labor Unions

This webinar, part of the Albert Shanker Institute’s Defending Democracy series, and in partnership with APALA and AFT’s AAPI Task Force, focused on the role of labor unions in mobilizing protests in response to the South Korean president's martial law declaration; the call for the resignation of the president and the move to elect a new government.

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Defending Democracy: Latin American Resistance to Authoritarianism

This is the third in a series of ASI’s virtual dialogue sessions on Defending Democracy. In this session, Latin American Resistance to Authoritarianism, leaders experienced with hands-on organizing and mobilizing from education unions in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Honduras, were questioned by AFT leaders on the tactics and political muscle that sustain the scale of the democracy movement throughout the continent.

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How to Stop a Backsliding Democracy In Its Tracks (and Engineer a Reverse Course): Lessons Learned and What We Need to Do Next

Democracy is under siege at home and abroad. In this webinar, AFT and ASI President Randi Weingarten moderated a discussion with experts and strategists of resistance and people-powered movements, exploring how we turn the tide through education, organized labor, and strategic coalition-building.

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Antisemitism, Democracy, and the Assault on Knowledge & Education

AFT and Albert Shanker Institute President Randi Weingarten and Jewish Council for Public Affairs CEO Amy Spitalnick discussed how to confront antisemitism and broader hate, protect our democracy, and fight back against this assault on knowledge and education. This conversation was moderated by Dan Montgomery, president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and a Shanker Institute board member.

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