Working People
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 245 ratingsWorking People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network).
Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode, you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life. We'll talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes and frustrations. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the country.
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Episodes
Adam Ryan (Target Workers Unite)
May 01, 2020 00:10 - 1 hour - 128 MBOur Season Three finale: we talk with Adam Ryan, a Target worker in Virginia and liaison for Target Workers Unite, one of the groups that has been organizing the coordinated strike actions planned for May 1st, 2020. We talk about Adam's life, his path to becoming a leftist and getting involved in labor organizing, and we talk about the conditions that Target employees have been working under even before the Covid-19 crisis began. Additional links/info below... Target Workers Unite Fa...
Mini-cast: ICE Is the CIA Now, Apparently (w/ Ken Klippenstein)
April 25, 2020 00:03 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MBThis is a clip from our bonus episode with Ken Klippenstein, DC correspondent for The Nation, about the Covid crisis and the scary powers our government has granted itself to deal with it. Subscribe on Patreon.com/WorkingPeople to listen to the full episode! Additional links/info below... Ken's author page and Twitter page Ken Klippenstein, The Nation, "An Internal Pandemic Document Shows the Coronavirus Gives Trump Extraordinary Powers" Featured Music (all songs sourced from...
"We Are Essential," Pt II (Voices from the Covid-19 Crisis)
April 20, 2020 20:29 - 2 hours - 160 MBPart II: The Covid-19 crisis and the current economic crash have broken our world apart. These are the voices of the people living, working, and fighting through it. Additional links/info below... Change.org petition: Stand with Sprouts Farmers Market Workers: COVID-19 PPE for Workers & Customers Now! Farmworker clip from UFW member Maria - video No Rent Michigan Facebook page Connecticut Workers Crisis Response Facebook page BeauJon McNally, Black Rose, "Labor Organizing...
"We Are Essential," Pt I (Voices from the Covid-19 Crisis)
April 11, 2020 08:53 - 2 hours - 131 MBThe Covid-19 crisis and the current economic crash have broken our world apart. These are the voices of the people living, working, and fighting through it. Additional links/info below... Clip from We the Unhoused by Theo Henderson: "All in the Same Boat" Clip from Rustbelt Abolition Radio: "Bruce X Parker" Southern Solidarity — Solidarity for the Unhoused in New Orleans Food Finder website, Facebook page, and Twitter page Alex (Instacart worker) PayPal address: alex.covidfun...
Workers' Book Club: A Serf's Journal (w/ Terry Tapp and John Tormey))
April 06, 2020 07:25 - 2 hours - 172 MBThe second installment of the Workers' Book Club is finally here, and it's a doozy! Our friend John Tormey, a track laborer and writer from just outside Boston, interviews working-class Kentucky artist, writer, and radio host Terry Tapp about his latest book from Zero Books, A Serf's Journal: The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike. Additional links/info below... Terry's website and Facebook page Terry Tapp, Zero Books, A Serf's Journal: The Story of the United States...
Mini-cast: #InstacartStrike (w/ Vanessa Bain)
March 29, 2020 22:57 - 22 minutes - 31 MBThis Monday (March 30) Instacart shoppers around the country will walk off the job to demand hazard pay and basic protections for working during the Covid-19 crisis. In this urgent mini-cast, we bring our friend, gig worker, and organizer Vanessa Bain back on the show to talk about the strike. Additional links/info below... Working People, Season 3, Episode 6: Vanessa Bain Gig Workers' Collective website Gig Workers' Collective, Medium, "Instacart Emergency Walk Off" Gig Work...
Make Love, Not Stonks (w/ Tom Sexton)
March 27, 2020 07:10 - 1 hour - 133 MBWe're briefly coming back from hiatus to check in with an old friend and offer some thoughts on our breaking world. Additional links/info below... Tom's Twitter page Gary Rivlin, The Intercept, "A Giant Pile of Money: How Wall Street Drove Public Pensions Into Crisis and Pocketed Billions in Fees" Eric Levitz, NY Mag, "American Capitalism Can No Longer Afford to Let Workers Retire in Dignity" Kathleen Elkins, CNBC, "A Brief History of the 401(k), Which Changed How Americans Ret...
(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE - Candace Wolf
March 20, 2020 06:49 - 1 hour - 111 MBWe talk to activist and oral historian Candace Wolf about her self-published book of interviews with workers all over the world, Shifting the Universe, and about working people's birthright to tell their stories. Additional links/info below... Candace Wolf, Shifting the Universe: Spoken Histories of Work & Resistance Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Lea Thomas, "Talk Like the Trees"
Working-Class Politics: Phara Souffrant Forrest
March 13, 2020 06:34 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBIn the newest installment in our ongoing series Working-Class Politics, we talk with Phara Souffrant Forrest, a union nurse, tenant activist, and democratic socialist running for Assembly in New York's 57th District. Additional links/info below... Phara's website, Facebook page, and Twitter page Theodore Hamm, The Indypendent, "NYC’s Next Socialist Wave: DSA Takes Aim at the State Assembly’s Old Guard" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusica...
SotB + Current Affairs Super Tuesday Crossover
March 04, 2020 20:49 - 57 minutes - 81.5 MBOur election-themed crossover panel collective continues to grow! We're excited to share on the Working People feed the newest installment of these ongoing panel conversations, in which our friends at the Season of the Bitch coven and Lyta Gold and Vanessa A. Bee of Current Affairs share their Super Tuesday thoughts. GET YOUR HOT TAKES WHILE THEY'RE ... UMM ... HOT! Previous election-themed crossover panels... "The 2020 Election & Building Working-Class Power" "The Billionaires' C...
Lances for Hire
March 01, 2020 10:45 - 3 hours - 189 MBIn this special compilation episode, we hear testimonies from 10 different freelancers—journalists, artists, musicians, designers, and more—about the pains, joys, needs, and struggles of freelance work today. (This episode is supported by The Economic Hardship Reporting Project) Additional links/info below... Economic Hardship Reporting Project website and Twitter page IWW Freelance Journalists Union website and Twitter page Freelance Solidarity Project website and Twitter page ...
Workers' Toolkit: ANTITRUST (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)
February 28, 2020 07:34 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBIn The Workers' Toolkit we take deep dives into the legal and institutional barriers that prevent workers from building collective power in the United Stated today. In this first installment, we talk with economist Marshall Steinbaum about the history of antitrust law in this country, how it shapes workers' lives, and what we can do about it. Additional links/info below... Marshall's Twitter page and faculty page Marshall Steinbaum, Law and Contemporary Problems, "Antitrust, the Gi...
The Billionaires' Caucus
February 21, 2020 10:02 - 2 hours - 139 MBOur second election-themed crossover panel of the season: We team up with Mel from Protean Magazine and Dwight and Shane from Eat the Rich to break down the two billionaires running in the 2020 Democratic primary: Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg. Who are these men? What do we know about their records? What could we expect if they somehow became President? And what does it say about our political system that they've been able to buy their way into viability? Additional links/info below...
Everybody In, Nobody Out (w/ Sara Nelson)
February 13, 2020 01:54 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBWe talk to the one and only Sara Nelson, flight attendant, union activist, and President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, about the labor movement and the AFA-CWA's current campaign to unionize Delta flight attendants. Additional links/info below... DeltaAFA.org Sara's Twitter page AFA-CWA website and Twitter page Sara Nelson & Randi Weingarten, The American Prospect, "Why America Needs a Better Labor Law" Sarah Jones, NY Mag, "Delta’s Flight Attendants Are Organi...
Deidra Demens
February 09, 2020 01:28 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBWe talk to professional yoga teacher Deidra Demens about the path that led her to yoga and about working in the yoga industry in New York City. We also talk about the historic campaign Deidra was involved in to form the nation's first union of yoga teachers at YogaWorks NYC, which is affiliated with the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers Additional links/info below... Deidra Demens Yoga Facebook page Unionize Yoga website, Twitter page, and Facebook page P...
The 2020 Election & Building Working-Class Power
February 03, 2020 06:09 - 2 hours - 193 MBBy popular demand, we teamed up with Protean Magazine and brought a panel of amazing people together—Ash (Horror Vanguard), Mel (Protean), Bryan (Strikewave), Lyta (Current Affairs), and Max (Working People)—to break down the top presidential candidates from a working-class perspective and share their thoughts on how working people should approach elections. Additional links/info below... Ash's Twitter page; The Horror Vanguard Twitter page and Patreon Mel's Twitter page; Protean T...
Working-Class Politics: Nabilah Islam
January 27, 2020 05:53 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBWe're excited to launch our new, ongoing series, Working-Class Politics. In this series, we'll talk with working-class candidates who are running for elected office as well as candidates who are fighting for working-class people. In our first installment, we talk with Nabilah Islam, a millennial Democrat running for Congress in Georgia's 7th District. Additional links/info below... Nabilah's website and Twitter page Jonathan Allen, NBC News, "Atlanta May Have Its Own AOC" Helaini...
Mini-cast: Break the Chains, Pt III (w/ Shirley Lung)
January 24, 2020 08:32 - 39 minutes - 89.3 MBPart III of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers’ sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). We talk to Shirley Lung, Professor of Law at the CUNY Law School, about the passing of IRCA, its immediate and longterm effects, and the American tradition of criminalizing marginalized workers. Additional links/info below... Shirley's Faculty page Shirley Lung, U...
Left Anchor/Working People: The Problem with Economics
January 19, 2020 20:55 - 1 hour - 128 MBWe needed to take a break this week after all the work we did to put together our special episode on the French general strike, but here is a crossover episode we did with the Left Anchor podcast. Max and his brother Zak joined Alexi and Ryan to talk about our podcast, the 2008 crash, and all the ways finance capital is screwing you over. Additional links/info below... Left Anchor Twitter page and Patreon Zak's Twitter page Cover image by Lalo Alcatraz Featured Music (all ...
The French General Strike (2019-2020)
January 12, 2020 06:07 - 2 hours - 204 MBIn this very special episode, we talk with eight workers from France about the ongoing general strike that began on December 5th. Please donate to the CGT Solidarity Fund Additional links/info below... Le Stream Reconductible Twitch Feed and Twitter page Izquierda Diario/Left Voice, "France Paralyzed by Largest General Strike in Decades" Maxime Quijoux and Guillaume Gourgues, Tribune, "France's Strike Against Macron" Axel Persson, Jacobin, "“This Strike Is Uniting the Resi...
Mini-cast: #HealthDignityJustice
January 02, 2020 01:06 - 25 minutes - 47.7 MBWe talk with former nail salon worker and organizer Glenda Sefla about the NY Nail Salon Workers Association and their fight to secure #HealthDignityJustice for workers in and beyond the nail salon industry (translation by Leanne Tory-Murphy) Additional links/info below... NY Nail Salon Workers Association website, Twitter page, and Facebook page Glenda's Twitter page Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, "The Human Cost of a Cheap Manicure" NY State, "Governor Cuomo Announces End of Subminimu...
Bridget Huff
December 27, 2019 10:10 - 1 hour - 141 MBIn this first installment of our new series on unpaid labor, we chat with Bridget Huff, a stay-at-home mom and political organizer. We talk about Bridget's life and about the pains, joys, and social pressures of being a stay-at-home parent. We also talk about how political organizations can and should make themselves accessible to folks like Bridget. Additional links/info below... Bridget's Facebook page and Twitter page Movement School website and Twitter page The Detroit News...
Mini-cast: UCSC Strike
December 20, 2019 18:57 - 39 minutes - 71.4 MBIn this week's mini-cast, we talk with Veronica, Marcelo, and Justin, three grad student workers involved in the ongoing wildcat strike at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Additional links/info below... UCSC Strike website, Twitter page, Facebook page, and Instagram Colin Dwyer, NPR, "'There's Really No Refuge': Santa Cruz Grad Students Strike Amid Housing Crunch" Coleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, "UC Santa Cruz Grad Assistants Strike for COLA" Featured Music (al...
The Winnipeg General Strike (w/ Srsly Wrong)
December 14, 2019 04:13 - 2 hours - 131 MBWe've got a super special crossover with the Wrong Boys themselves, Aaron and Shawn from the Srsly Wrong podcast! We teamed up to take a deep dive into the history and meaning of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, the largest labor strike in Canada's history. Additional links/info below... Srsly Wrong website, Twitter page, and Patreon Alberta Advantage, "General Strike! Winnipeg 1919-2019" The Magnificast, "The Winnipeg General Strike" Dennis Lewycky, Fernwood Books, "Magnifi...
Clarke
December 13, 2019 18:43 - 1 hour - 153 MBWorking People is back and we are excited to announce our official partnership with In These Times magazine! In this episode, we chat with new father Clarke, a contract commercial diver who works on different jobs for different companies throughout the year, completing tasks from underwater welding to removing shoreline debris. Clarke is a navy veteran and a member of the IWW and DSA-LSC. We talk about how he got into this line of work, and we also discuss labor issues in the commercial divi...
(Unlocked) On Meritocracy (w/ Zak Alvarez)
December 08, 2019 19:36 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBMax and his brother Zak talk about meritocracy, work in the corporate world, and that feeling in your gut that most of what you do is pointless. Additional links/info below... Zak's Twitter page Daniel Markovits, Penguin Random House, The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Misty Mammas, "It's Gonna Rain"
(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE #26 - Harvey J. Kaye
November 18, 2019 04:35 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBWe talk with author and intellectual powerhouse Harvey J. Kaye about working people, America's radical history, and his new book, Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again. Harvey is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. Additional links/info below... Harvey's Twitter page and faculty bio Harvey J. Kaye, Zero Books, Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again Featured Music (all s...
Mini-cast: Break the Chains, Pt II (w/ David Tieu)
November 11, 2019 07:45 - 27 minutes - 22.3 MBPart II of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers’ sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). We talk to David Tieu, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3, about working on the Hudson Yards project in New York City and seeing firsthand how employers exploit undocumented workers and undercut unions. Additional links/info b...
Mini-cast: Break the Chains, Pt I (w/ David Tieu)
November 11, 2019 07:45 - 27 minutes - 22.3 MBPart II of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers’ sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). We talk to David Tieu, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3, about working on the Hudson Yards project in New York City and seeing firsthand how employers exploit undocumented workers and undercut unions. Additional links/info b...
Vanessa Bain
November 04, 2019 08:49 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBInstacart shoppers walked off the job this Sunday in protest of the company's rampant wage/tip theft and dishonest, exploitative practices. We chat with Vanessa Bain, a full-time gig worker and one of the organizers of the protest. Additional links/info below... Vanessa's Twitter page Vanessa Bain, Medium, "Dear Instacart Customers" Instacart Workers, Medium, "Dear Apoorva Mehta (Founder and CEO of Instacart)" Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: fre...
Dana Gardner
November 03, 2019 05:31 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBIn Part II of our two-part episode on workers in the Maine logging industry, we chat with Dana Garner, a veteran trucker and wood hauler from St. Francis, and an organizer with the Machinists Union. We talk about Dana’s days driving his rig all over the United States and about coming back home to Maine to work full-time hauling logs out of the woods. We talk about the strains of working 20-hour shifts and being in the cab all day, and about the obvious dangers of driving heavy loads on mount...
SpoOoOoky Special (w/ The Horror Vanguard)
October 27, 2019 17:47 - 50 minutes - 40.6 MBOur Working People Halloween special! We talk with Jon and Ash from The Horror Vanguard podcast about horror, the working class, and how there's nothing scarier than capitalism... Additional links/info below... The Horror Vanguard Twitter page and Patreon page Jon's Twitter page Ash's Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Joro Gaming, "Free Scary Music" Loyalty Freak Music, "Monster Parade"
Mini-cast: Break the Chains, Pt I (w/ Josephine Lee & Tosh Anderson)
October 24, 2019 06:36 - 36 minutes - 28.9 MBPart I of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers’ sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) and secure equal rights for all workers (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). Additional links/info below... Break the Chains website: https://equalrightsforallworkers.org/ Break the Chains Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/equalrightsforallworkers/ Maximillian Alvarez & William Lopez, In These T...
Mark Hardison
October 22, 2019 06:14 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBIn Part I of our two-part episode on workers in the Maine logging industry, we chat with Mark Hardison, a longtime woodcutter from Eastern Maine, near the town of Ellsworth. We talk about Mark's life, getting involved in the woods industry, and about the ways that the industry has changed over the years. We also talk about efforts to organize workers in the woods industry and the long and complicated history between American workers, Canadian workers, and the companies that pit them against ...
Mini-cast: Update from the UAW Picket Line (w/ John Jayne)
October 17, 2019 05:49 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MBWe talk with John Jayne, a GM worker in Philadelphia and member of UAW Local 2177, about the month-long UAW strike and the new tentative contract agreement. Additional links/info below... Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press, "GM-UAW Deal Calls for 9,000 Jobs, $9,000 Ratification Bonus, E-truck at Detroit-Hamtramck" Jamie McCallum, Jacobin, "“They Made That Money off Our Blood, Sweat, and Tears”" Sean Crawford and Maximillian Alvarez, In These Times, "The Strike Against General Mo...
Darrow Omar
October 13, 2019 07:23 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBWe talk with Darrow, office coordinator for Portland State University’s Women, Sexuality, & Gender Studies Department and member organizer for SEIU Local 503. We talk about Darrow’s involvement in the union and about the planned statewide strike that was narrowly averted soon after we recorded this episode. But we also got a chance to talk about Darrow’s life as a queer millennial from the Northern Mariana Islands who made their way to being a university staff worker in Oregon and getting in...
(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE #25 - Steven Greenhouse
October 10, 2019 05:44 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBWe chat with award-winning author and journalist Steven Greenhouse. Steven was a reporter for The New York Times from 1983 to 2014, specifically covering labor and workplace issues for 19 years. We talk about his newest book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Additional links/info below... Steven's Twitter page Steven Greenhouse, Penguin Books, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor Featured Music (all son...
Homecoming (w/ Sarah Smarsh)
September 27, 2019 16:34 - 32 minutes - 25.7 MBSPECIAL EPISODE: We chat with the one and only Sarah Smarsh, author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard & Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Additional links/info below... Sarah's Twitter page and website Sarah Smarsh, Scribner Books, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard & Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth The Homecomers (podcast) Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior...
Going to the Mat
September 23, 2019 01:06 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBIn Part II of our season-opening special on indie professional wrestlers, we talk with Noah (The Sorceress), Chris Hutton (Rob Matter), and Joella (Incogneato/Chronic Pain) about their experiences at different levels of the indie wrestling scene. Additional links/info below... Chris's Twitter Page Incogneato's Instagram page Noah's Twitter page Wrestle Yr Friends Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, ...
Angel Blue
September 08, 2019 00:22 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBWe kick off Season 3 with news from Andy O'Brien (AFL-CIO) about a unionization push in the Maine logging industry and we talk with indie professional wrestler Angel Blue. We talk about how Angel first got into wrestling when she was still in high school, all the work and the physical and mental stress that goes into being a professional wrestler, and what it’s like when you walk through the curtain before a match... And we talk about how Angel has seen and been a part of the explosion of ki...
ORGANIZE! - Black Socialists of America - Z
September 01, 2019 23:33 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBFor this special Labor Day installment of our ORGANIZE! series, we talk to Z, one of the cofounders of the Black Socialists of America. We trace BSA's evolution from a social and educational network to an organization focused on "Mobilizing poor and working class Black American people for revolutionary change in both the public and private sectors." We also talk about their unveiling of the Dual-Power Map and about how BSA is working in coalition with Cooperation Jackson and Symbiosis to bui...
Mini-cast: (ACTION NOW) Say No to IRAPs
August 24, 2019 07:55 - 27 minutes - 21.9 MBDirected by the Trump administration, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed changes to apprenticeship programs that could spell disaster for union workers in the building trades, giving businesses the ability to create their own apprenticeship programs (IRAPs), underpay workers, and undercut unions. We recorded this PSA to let listeners know what is going on, why it's bad, and what you can do about it. The period to file a public comment in opposition to these proposed changes ends ...
Mini-cast: Pay KY Coal Miners Now! (w/ Josh Holbrook)
August 04, 2019 07:09 - 22 minutes - 17.9 MBWe talk with Josh Holbrook, one of the Kentucky coal miners currently protesting coal companies Black Jewel, Black Hawk, and Revelation for stiffing him and his coworkers on backpay after going bankrupt. Additional links/info below... GoFundMe - Letcher County BlackJewel Coal Miners Action Network - Fund for Former Revelation, Black Hawk, and Black Jewel Miners Demonstrating in Harlan County Brittany Patterson & Sydney Boles, Ohio Valley Resource, " Laid-Off Employees Of Bankru...
Mini-cast: Show Me What Democracy Looks Like (w/ Astra Taylor)
July 26, 2019 20:54 - 23 minutes - 19.1 MBA section from our chat with Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker, organizer, and co-founder of the Debt Collective. We talk about Astra's new documentary, What Is Democracy?, and her companion book, Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone. Additional links/info below... Astra's Twitter page Debt Collective website and Twitter page Astra Taylor, Zeitgeist Films, What Is Democracy? Astra Taylor, Metropolitan Books, Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It'...
(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE #16 - Lana Povitz & Eleni Schirmer
July 16, 2019 01:51 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBWe chat with two brilliant scholars, Lana Povitz and Eleni Schirmer. Lana is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College, and her book Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice will be published this Fall. Eleni is a scholar, writer, and activist from Madison, WI. She is currently a PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Educational Policy and Curriculum & Instruction. We chat about food justice, social movements, what poli...
Mini-cast: On the Clock (w/ Emily Guendelsberger)
July 12, 2019 23:06 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBWe chat with journalist Emily Guendelsberger about her new book, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane. Additional links/info below... Emily's Twitter page Emily Guendelsberger, Little, Brown, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE #20 - Adam Johnson
July 07, 2019 16:59 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBWe chat with journalist, media critic, and cohost of the Citations Needed podcast Adam Johnson about working in the service industry, how mainstream media serve the ruling class, and about developing the tools we need to cut through the bullshit. Additional links/info below... Adam's Twitter page and author page at The Appeal Citations Needed Facebook page, Twitter page, and Patreon page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lob...
"You Are Not A Loan" (w/ Ami Schneider & Sanders Fabares)
June 30, 2019 06:12 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBLast Monday, Representatives Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, and Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled the Student Debt Cancellation Act of 2019, which includes a plan to wipe out the $1.6 trillion in student debt held by 45 million Americans. In this this special episode, we talk to Ami Schneider and Sanders Fabares, two debt holders and graduates from the for-profit Art Institute college chain who decided to fight back and get involved in anti-debt organizing through the Debt Collective. Add...
What to Do if ICE Raids Your Workplace (w/ Diana Marin & Bill Lopez)
June 22, 2019 06:17 - 49 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this urgent special episode, we talk with Diana Marin, Supervising Attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and Professor Bill Lopez about what to do if ICE raids your workplace. We discuss what precautions individuals, families, and communities must take in anticipation of a possible raid, what you should do if a raid occurs at your work, and what the impacts of these raids are. NOTE: We are working to get this episode transcribed and translated into multiple languages. I...
Mini-cast: Mad about Class (w/ Lyta Gold)
June 12, 2019 07:20 - 43 minutes - 34.7 MBWe chat with Current Affairs Amusements and Managing Editor, Lyta Gold, about her latest viral tweet and about why upper-middle-class liberals get so mad when you talk about class. Additional links/info below... Lyta's Twitter page THE tweet Current Affairs website, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"