The five-month strike is about worker power in America. It’s also about fighting for a just transition for carbon-intensive industries.
Luis Feliz Leon
Luis Feliz Leon is an organizer, journalist, and independent scholar in social-movement history making good trouble in New York City.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The New Freedom Rides
Sixty years ago, activists boarded buses to ride through the South to demand voting rights for Blacks. Today, their successors have been compelled to do it again.
Posted inCoronavirus
Workers Making COVID Test Kits Exposed to COVID
At Access Bio in New Jersey, mostly Latina immigrant temp workers lacking protections on the job face hazardous conditions.
Posted inWorking in America
Union Solidarity on Eve of Historic Amazon Warehouse Election
In Alabama, unions gather to support workers seeking union recognition from the Earth’s largest non-union company.
Posted inWorking in America
Warehouse Workers Wage Historic Fight for Union Recognition at Amazon
The corporate giant has gone to great lengths to stop workers in Bessemer, Alabama, from unionizing.
Posted inPolitics
Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Far Right Storms U.S. Capitol
The Capitol Riot recalls right-wing counterinsurgencies the U.S. has sponsored in the Dominican Republic and around the world.
Posted inCoronavirus
Cleaning New York Subways, Immigrant Workers Find Abuse
Working for the MTA’s hired contractors, an immigrant workforce is exploited and harassed.