me and some friends are going long on the CIO. the podcast's called Fragile Juggernaut and you can listen anywhere you get your podcasts. we'll have what I suspect will be a substantial newsletter with it so if you want that, or just want to support us, subscribe: www.patreon.com/FragileJugge...
History · 2024
This long interview with Tareq Baconi turned out fantastic – vital context to making sense of the changing face of Palestinian resistance over the last few decades thedigradio.com/podcast/hama...
The struggle is to see what's occurring in Gaza as a truly singular catastrophe *and* as a diagram of what's to come, of a future of increasingly securitized/militarized states and increasingly dispossessed/displaced peoples. Everything depends on siding with the latter.
Things are coming together for the podcast on the history of the CIO that I've been working on with @alexnpress.bsky.social@andrewelrod.bsky.social@gabrielwinant.bsky.social@yesnomabie.bsky.socialwww.patreon.com/notification...
If you want to support the project, check out the patreon, which will help us pay our audio producer. If you'd just like to sign up for some occasional updates as this thing gets ready to launch, follow this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are very excited that Fragile Juggernaut, our podcast on the history of the CIO will be getting started in the near future. If you're interested in staying in the loop, please sign up here.
At the CWA/NewsGuild Strike School (hybrid across 3 offices, 150ish people on zoom too). Opening the day by hearing from Maximus call center workers and their strike preparations.
The flooding is quite a scene in New York. Shoutout to some building captains in the Crown Heights Tenant Union for throwing together this great resource on emergency flood response in a pinch: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
FLOOD ORGANIZING If your apartment or building is flooded or water-damaged today, your fellow-tenants in the union have your back. Basement Apartments ° If you are in a basement apartment that is co...
A great piece on the strike? Definitely. But also the best damn thing you can read on the (partial, uneven, and still just getting started) political recomposition of the labor movement that's underway today @gabrielwinant.bsky.socialwww.nybooks.com/online/2023/...
The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car. In his classic study Labor and Monopoly Capital