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Part 2: When the Star Garden strippers go public with their union campaign, they get pushback from the club’s management and a group they didn’t anticipate - other strippers. LAist Producer Emma Alabaster reports.
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0:00.0 | The Proves Bowl with Get Lit is back at the Crawford. |
0:05.0 | Join us for a night of spoken word performances from some of LA's best youth poets. |
0:09.3 | It's March 8th. |
0:10.5 | Get your tickets at LAIS.com |
0:12.6 | slash events. |
0:13.6 | Hey, you're listening to Imperfect Paradise from Alaya Studios. |
0:21.3 | I'm your host Antonia Serajido. This is part two of our four-part series |
0:25.7 | In Perfect Paradise Strippers Union, the behind-the-scenes story of the first U.S. Strip Club to unionize |
0:31.6 | in decades. |
0:33.2 | Previously, we met the dancers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar |
0:37.4 | and learned about the safety issues and sense of community |
0:40.3 | that led the dancers to mobilize. |
0:42.4 | We just had a lot of love for each other. |
0:45.0 | And we solidified that the only way we're going to be able to do something |
0:50.0 | is if we organize together. |
0:54.0 | This episode, what happens when the Star Garden Dancers go public with their campaign |
0:59.0 | and receive some pushback? |
1:01.0 | I think that it's really easy for white folks to have like |
1:04.7 | some fragility when you first come to them with issues like that. And what |
1:08.5 | happens as their campaign persists. I feel like an American, like I don't know it's like finally able to vote for something because I can't vote for anything so it was really exciting after an hour of a closed meeting these dancers and their supporters watched on a Zoom call as the |
1:24.3 | vote was stopped. The employer is challenging 16 of the 18 ballots received. |
1:30.5 | Elie's producer Emma Alabaster takes the story from here. Spring and summer of 2022 was a time of picketing for the Star Garden Strippers. |
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