On this edition of Your Call, we continue our Authoritarian Playbook series with AFT president Randi Weingarten, author of the new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy .

She says it's a love letter to public school educators and an expose of the well-funded strategy behind the vilification of teachers and war on knowledge. Educators are facing intimidation, censorship, and political attacks across the country. Weingarten opens her book with a history lesson about teachers resisting Nazis in Norway and makes the connection between historical authoritarian movements and today’s efforts to dismantle public education.

How are teachers and public school advocates fighting back to defend public education, critical thinking, opportunities for all, a

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