Disaster Capitalism and Vulture Charters
Striking teachers in Puerto Rico are battling austerity, drawing on a rich tradition of anti-colonial workers’ resistance.
Lauren Lefty is a doctoral candidate at New York University studying the history of education in the United States and Latin America. Her dissertation is a transnational history of education politics and activism in New York and Puerto Rico during the Cold War.
Striking teachers in Puerto Rico are battling austerity, drawing on a rich tradition of anti-colonial workers’ resistance.