A Discussion of Politics and Mass Organizations, Part 1 of 2
By Nate Hawthorne
Read moreBy Don Smith
I was at dinner with friends the other day and the subject of poverty and hunger in Africa came up. One friend of mine is working with a non-profit charity that collects money for children in Sierra …
Read moreBy Steve Fake
Edward O. Wilson and Peter Kropotkin are not often discussed in the same breath. Yet Kropotkin, who in his professional life was a geographer, devoted a substantial work (Mutual Aid, 1902) to elaborating his ideas …
By Bruce ‘the Bruiser’ Darden
Organizing Stories is a semi-regular series collecting experiences and examining organizing efforts in the hope of providing some lessons for the future
I moved to a medium size city in the Great Lakes Region in …
Read moreInterview with Davis Ritsema, by Kevin S.
This interview took place last fall, shortly after the NLRB election at Jimmy John’s. We’d asked a couple Jimmy John’s union members about doing an interview, to which union member Davis Ritsema very …
Read moreBy Benjamin S.
On March 4th and 5th, Cleveland, Ohio saw a diverse gathering of Local Union Presidents, former and current union staffers, and a sprinkling of politically driven rank and file activists descend down her snowy …
Read moreLabor Shorts is a regular column digesting recent labor news (compiled this week by Mike Kolhoff and Steve Fake)
Wisconsin
Since the first teacher sick-ins in mid-February, in response to Gov. Scott Walker’s union-gutting state budget bill, events in Wisconsin …
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