Dollar Lunch Club and Mutual Aid Organizing After the UC Strike
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
James talks to several members of the UCSD Dollar Lunch Club about how their mutual aid group evolved out of the no vote campaign and how we can use food as a tool for organizing and building community.
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| 0:35.0 | Okay, hello and welcome to Ike It Happen here. A podcast that is about today about labor |
| 0:40.7 | organizing and about what happens after a strike in a labor organization. I'm joined. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm James, if you hadn't guessed, and I'm joined by several people from the UCSD Dollar Lunch Club. |
| 0:51.9 | We're going to talk about the UC Strike and we're going to talk about mutual aid organizing |
| 0:55.3 | and the wake of the strike. If you all would like to introduce yourselves, that would be great. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Alex, I use she-day pronouns. I'm Matt and I use he-him. |
| 1:05.7 | Hi everyone, my name is Maria, I am a PhD student at UCSD and I use she-her pronouns. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm Anna and I use she-day pronouns. |
| 1:15.6 | Amazing. Thank you very much, you guys. So I think people probably haven't heard much from us |
| 1:20.6 | about the UC Strike since we last had some episodes around December and January. |
| 1:27.1 | And obviously it's been a couple of months since then. So the resolution of that strike was kind |
| 1:32.3 | of contentious. A lot of the organizing that you guys have been doing came out of a campaign to vote |
| 1:37.3 | no on the, I guess the ballot after the strike, right? To vote no on the alternative agreement, |
| 1:44.9 | which ultimately didn't succeed, right? The attempt of agreement was a yes vote. |
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