Join local author Yvonne Martinez for a co nversation with Berkeleyside's Joanne Furio about her new book\, Scabmuggers.
\n\nAbout Scabmuggers:
\n"As s oon as courses at Harvard begin\, Ana\, a White female\, finds herself bei ng stalked by Aaron\, a Black male classmate. Word quickly gets out to the rest of the cohort&mdash\;but not wanting to get anyone kicked out\, Ana refuses to name names. With their program director insisting there&rsquo\; s nothing she can do to intervene if no one will name the perpetrator\, th e class becomes engulfed in a campaign to protect Ana that splits the grou p into two camps. Some of the men join the women to fight the harassment\; some of the women join the harassers. In short order\, the conflict becom es a fight for power that divides along race\, sex\, LGBTQ\, and class lin es&mdash\;mirroring the heartbreaking history of the labor movement\, and serving as a precursor to our current political landscape."
\nAbout Yvonne:
\nYvonne Martinez \;is a retired labor negotiator/organi zer. She has been published by \;ZyZZyVa\, Crab Orchard Review\, Labor Notes\, and \;NPR. She also formerly wrote a local labor blog in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her acclaimed memoir in essays\, \;Someday Mij a\, You&rsquo\;ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman \, covers her childhood in Salt Lake City/South Central/Boyle Heights and her work as a labor negotiator/organizer in California and the Pacific Nor thwest. Her new book \;Scabmuggers \;is based on her experience as a National Fellow of the Harvard Trade Union Program in 1994. Yvonne live s in Berkeley\, CA.
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