Photo assistants: Maria Troncoso Gibbs, Cailan O'Connell, Jason Renaud Westminster and three other Southern California school districts on behalf of 5,000 Latinx students — and they won. The 1947 ruling in their case,Mendez et al v. Westminster et almarked the first time that any U.S. schools weremandated to desegregatealthough only forcases involving Mexican-American studentsSeven years later, the Supreme Court decision inBrown v. Board of Education unfolded Monday morning, and people were freaking out. With Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all hit by a massive global outage, everyone flooded Twitter to complain, commiserate and, of course, share memes.Many peoplejoked Rush says people sometimes dismiss strikes as excuses for workers to “just scream and mess with people,” but like Ciara, she has found it valuable to share her experience at strike rallies. “I share my story sometimes when I go on strike just so other workers can understand that they are not alone and we really go through the same things. We really are the same,” she says. “Now I feel like superwoman. I like doing this and I try to get other people to do it too. It's about all of us.”