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Those qualities were very much on display in West Virginia, where thousands of teachers relied on Facebook and Twitter to quickly drum up enthusiasm for a job action that spread successfully to all 55 counties in the sprawling, mostly rural state — a task that might have taken weeks or months a generation or two ago. The internet also helped build national support even when the big mainstream media outlets were slow to cover the strike.
In little Ripley, West Va., where Barnette lives and teaches (“believe it or not,” she adds), the 36-year-old educator and now “woke” labor activist said the next focus will be consolidating March’s big win with action at the ballot box in November, to get support for a county tax that subsidizes schools and for new legislators — regardless of party — who will support the middle class. “We won a battle,” Barnette said, “but we have not won the war.”
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