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Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
06 Apr 2020
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Semassa Boko, a student activist and PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article on the concept of a social welfare strike “under conditions where the United States is plunging into a Great Depression.” Boko envisions “the redirection of students’ withheld labor towards the social welfare” of those who have been abandoned by the system.

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