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Guest: Arlene Inouye, Simon Pirani Arlene Inouye, Secretary of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and Co-Chair of the Negotiations Team on how important the LAUSD strike, beginning January 14, is for public education, indeed, for the public. UTLA is demanding that LAUSD negotiate a fair agreement that addresses class size, funding for nurses, librarians, a halt to further privatization through charterization, and teacher pay -- or face teachers on picket lines. After the spectacular Red State teachers strikes of last year, the LAUSD strike has enormous potential in practical and inspirational terms ''' for labor and community as a whole.Simon Pirani, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies on his new book, "Burning Up: a global history of fossil fuel consumption," that traces the inexorable increase in oil, gas and coal use since the mid 20th century - and shows how consumption growth accelerated since the discovery of global warming in the 1980s. He argues that fuels are mainly consumed through technological systems, which are in turn embedded in social, economic and political systems - and that the transition away from fossil fuels will mean the transformation of all of these.