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Labor theory, history, news, and analysis.
27 DEC 2024 · -Update on solidarity efforts with Palestine
-United Auto Workers: strike at Strand bookstores and organizing at Newbury Comics
-Teamsters/Amazon strike update
-Starbucks workers strike update
-Organizing at REI
-Organizing in the US today
-Protests against Trump
-UNITE-HERE west coast Hotel Workers Strike ends
25 DEC 2024 · -Labor for Palestine solidarity w/ Teamster strike
-Teamster strike at Amazon
-Starbucks workers strike
-Interview with JoAnna Frasch, Vice President of AFSCME Local 1 in Wisconin. We talk to JoAnna about Act 10 and other labor issues in Wisconsin.Â
9 DEC 2024 · In this episode we speak to Michael Jones, president of Madison Teachers Inc. We talk about the recent reversal of Act 10 in Wisconsin. Act 10 is a piece of anti-labor legislation that was pushed by the-governor Scott Walker. The measure passed in 2011 and last week it was reversed.Â
9 DEC 2024 · We interview Madeline Topf, co-president of the graduate workers union in Madison, Wisconsin. She speaks to us about Act 10 and its reversal last week.Â
30 NOV 2024 · In this episode we speak with Heba Mohammad from Milwaukee for Palestine.
We cover:
-Milwaukee for Palestine
-Speaking to an anti-war Trump supporter
-Intersectionality and class struggle
-Inspiring struggles in solidarity with Palestine
-Arab countries and Palestine
-Culture & Struggle
-Boycott, Divesment, Sanctions Movement (BDS) campaign to Disarm Derco
-General strikes in Palestine
-Hope for the direction of the movement
22 NOV 2024 · - Attacks on free speech of people in solidarity with Palestine at UC San Francisco
- Gearing up for a strike at Volkswagen, in Germany
- Update on hotel workers strike, now entering its second month
- 50,000 postal workers on strike in Canada
- Union teachers in Albany, Oregon demand resignation of school board members
- Labor analysis
9 NOV 2024 · The Democratic Party suffered a colassal loss in the 2024 presidential elections. Kamala Harris conceded the election and left the stage with no Plan B for party supporters. So... what now? This episode is for people who are asking themselves that same quesion and are open to new ideas. Ideas that don't involve voting for the lesser of two evils every four years. Ideas taken from labor history in the late 1800s all the way through today.Â
29 OCT 2024 · In this episode we talk to James C, a student activist in Milwaukee who recently pressed presidential candidate Kamala Harris on the issue of genocide while she campaigned at his university. James C. shares the experience at the event along with his thoughts on Zionism vs. Judaism, the 2024 electioms, socialism, and the cultural influences which helped shape his political understandings.Â
22 OCT 2024 · In this special episode Bryan brings us some history and research from Wisconsin as it relates to the Bradley Foundation, Act 10, Project 2025 and more.
19 OCT 2024 · - Solidarity w/ Palestine Report
- End the War on Journalists (SAG-AFTRA Members for Ceasefire)
- Cori Bush calls for Arms Embargo against "Israel"
- Columbia University staff person and activist in solidarity with Palestine reaches agreement with university
- United Electrical Workers (UE) victory against academic bosses
- UNITE-HERE hotel workers union expands strike with Omni Hotel walkouts in Boston
- United Auto Workers call for a mass strike on May 1, 2028
- Boeing strike update
- Casa Bonita workers organizing in Denver
Labor theory, history, news, and analysis.
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| Author | We Rise Fighting Labor Podcast |
| Organization | Ric Urrutia |
| Categories | Politics |
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