California students from UC, CSU and other colleges are joining with workers from the Disney Resort in Anaheim, to target one UC regent, Monica Lozano, and two companies she is associated with: La Opinion, the Spanish language media giant, and Walt Disney Corporation. Members of Unite HERE that work for the Disney hotel share similar grievances to California’s students, in being financially squeezed by corporate interests.

Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with June Mecker, a Disneyland Resort Dining phone operator and Giselle Armendariz, a 18-year-old freshman at Cal Poly Pomona, on Friday July 8th, 2011.

Watch a video of the interview here:

Special thanks to Martina Steiner for recording this interview.

Find out more at www.unitehere11.org.