COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a white knee crushing a Black neck. A dream so long deferred suddenly exploded in city after city. What's next?
Jane McAlevey, a longtime labor organizer and strategist, argues that systematic grassroots organizing is the key to repairing today’s ravaged democracy.
Similar efforts were successful at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and at The Shed in New York City.
Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus
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Activists begged the city not to allow a smokestack demolition during the coronavirus crisis at the old Crawford Coal Plant, but the explosion ended up coating the mostly-Latino neighborhood in dust.
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.
In a country where migrant workers fear deportation, and in an industry where employers often physically abuse workers, the process of union-building is a slow task that requires building relationships of trust amongst fishers.
Strategy entails applying tactics to win in a campaign or on a front. But grand strategy involves winning the entire war—and creating a post-war world that is most advantageous.
Hearst is pushing back against its employees’ union drive, but it would be advantageous for them to support it.
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