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Farmers Sell Their Produce

Bridget Shirvell Modern Farmer
The Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) in Providence, Rhode Island works to give immigrant farmers opportunities to sell what they grow to wholesale markets.

Progressive Profile: Greg Casar’s ‘Roots in Organizing’

Jarod Facundo The American Prospect
“We have clear evidence that people that ran on progressive platforms or were for working families won competitive elections … For too long, there has been a backwards D.C. idea that progressives shouldn’t run in competitive districts.” 

A Catholic University With a Radical History Faces a Union Drive of Its Own

Cody R. Melcher Convergence
Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism.

To Make a Bigger Difference: A Message From the Moderators

Portside Moderators Portside
Georgia Yes! Raphael Warnock put Georgia on our minds, and Georgia delivered. Portside works to put the most important issues on our minds every day. Once a year, we ask for your help to do so. This is that time.

How Biden Can Undo His Damage to Labor

Steven Greenhouse The New Republic
He didn’t give rail workers paid leave in legislation. But he can still do it through an executive order.