Democratic socialists in Denver have a sweet deal going serving tamales to public school teachers who took to the picket lines this week over a $300 pay dispute.

Inspired by the success of comrades in Los Angeles who raised money off of a teacher’s strike in that city last month, Denver socialists have already raked in thousands through the “Tamales for Teachers” campaign on GoFundMe.

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The campaign was launched by the Denver branch of the International Socialist Organization three weeks before teachers walked out on students Monday. So far, it’s collected a total of $6,786 from 263 people.

“In order to support striking Denver educators and their fight for quality public education, the Denver branch of the International Socialist Organization will be serving homemade tamales (and more) on the picket line! We are partnering in this effort with Front Range Workers’ Initiative for Liberation and Defense and the Denver chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Tamales will be provided by El Molino Bakery, a local mom & pop business that is owned by former undocumented immigrants,” according to the campaign.

Money donated through the GoFundMe initiative goes to Carlos Valdez, member with the Denver ISO. From there money “will be paid out directly to our tamale provider partner, El Molino Bakery … any remaining funds will be donated to the DCTA Strike Fund,” the ad alleges.

Denver socialists, like their compadres in LA, are also helping to organize protests at city schools, where substitutes are struggling to retain control amid the racket outside.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support militant educators and radicalize politics (in) our city,” according to the DSA’s online “Picketing Signup.”

The form offers advice for members on targeting schools to maximize the disruption to learning.

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“East and South are the largest and most central,” according to the signup. “They have the highest union membership and most politically active student body. Their pickets will likely be the most convenient for our members to join.”

But also, diversity.

“However, we also want to show that DSA stands with other underserved, diverse, and working-class schools in the Far Northeast and Southwest. Please join pickets at more distant locations like Montebello and JFK if you’re able,” the announcement read.

About half of Denver Public Schools teachers ditched class Monday to support a Denver Classroom Teachers Association strike focused on teacher pay in a new labor contract. The union is pushing to shift the district away from a performance pay plan it helped to create 20 years ago to base more of teachers’ pay on the traditional union salary schedule, which rewards years on the job and college credits rather than impact on students.

When contract talks broke off over the weekend, the district had agreed to most of the union’s demands and the dispute boiled down to roughly $300 per teacher –  the difference between district proposal to raise starting teacher salary to $45,500 and the DCTA’s insistence on $45,800 starting salaries, according to NPR.

The strike impacts about 71,000 students in 147 schools, which remain open with the help of hundreds of substitute teachers and administrators.

On Monday, some students at East High School reportedly hosted an impromptu dance party before walking out of class to join their teachers on the picket lines. Parents of the district’s roughly 10,000 special education students also sued DPS on the first day of the strike, arguing that keeping schools open during the self-centered teachers strike puts those students at risk, NPR reports.

“The strike will cause severe emotional and psychological trauma for special education students, especially the large number of DPS students who suffer from autism,” according to the lawsuit. “With unexpected changes in routine, some autistic students may end up hurting themselves, hurting others and possibly suffering setbacks for months as a result of not receiving proper services.”

DPS spokesman Will Jones told The Denver Post the district specifically recruited substitutes with special education backgrounds in anticipation of the strike and the lawsuit is “based on speculation” there is a problem.

Contract negotiations between DPS and the DCTA resumed Tuesday, as teachers jammed out in banana costumes and danced to socialist chants in the streets.