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Laborwave RadioRevaluing The Strike w/ Erik Baker"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation."
Erik Baker, an American historian, associate editor at The Drift, and a former UAW staff organizer, joins Laborwave to discuss his article for Jewish Currents, Revaluing the Strike.
You can read the full article at https://jewishcurrents.org/revaluing-the-strike
2023-11-2739 min
Laborwave RadioPremajority Unionism with Eric DirnbachEric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union but can be a union from the start!
We also talk about strikes, dues checkoff, fighting corporate giants like Starbucks and Amazon, and more.
Check out the article written by Eric Dirnbach and Colette Perold on premajority unionism at https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/
2023-09-1854 min
Laborwave RadioHow To Revive the Labor Movement w/ Marianne GarneauBack from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor! Marianne Garneau, editor in chief of Organizing Work, joins the discussion to breakdown the debates on organizing the unorganized, the rank and file strategy, and forming new types of contemporary unions.
Check out my new article in Organizing Work that dives deeper into the problems with the "militant minority" tendency: https://organizing.work
2023-08-2147 min
Laborwave RadioLabor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew DimickMatthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act. Dimick makes clear that rather than trying to posit the Act was a gift to labor that the labor movement should be cautious whenever the state seeks to substitute its powers for unions own self-activity.
Our discussion touches on the following articles written by Dimick in Organizing Work and Catalyst Journal.
Counterfeit Liberty- https://catalyst-journal.com/2019/07/counterfeit-liberty
The Wagner Act, Cause and Consequences- https://organizing.work/2022/08/the-wagner-act-causes-and-consequences/
2022-12-0545 min
The Final Straw RadioPropaganda By The Seed (with Aaron Parker and Tim Holland)This week on the show, we feature a chat with Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery & Tim Holland (aka MC Sole), who together form the Propaganda By The Seed podcast. You can find the podcast on the channel zero network, Libsyn, and a bunch of streaming services. We hope you enjoy this chat as much as Bursts did. We talk about their project of sharing conversations with various farmers, herbalists, propagators, scavengers, historians and cooks about plants, food autonomy, agriculture mutual aid and a host of other, related topics. The podcast that Bursts mentioned but never named is "...
2022-09-041h 45
Laborwave RadioThe Long Deep Grudge w/ Toni GilpinToni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge, which chronicles the epic battles of the Farm Equipment Workers Union (FE) against corporate giant International Harvester.
From the book description, "International Harvester – and the McCormick family that largely controlled it – garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the 20th century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor move...
2022-08-2950 min
Laborwave RadioWilliam Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Methods and StrategiesSecond episode in our discussion of the life and thought of William Z. Foster.
On this go around Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing. In particular we examine his pamphlets Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry and Strike Strategy.
We also discuss the techniques of pink sheeting, role of popular education in organizing, and competing conceptions of leadership identification and development.
This and more on the latest episode of Laborwave Radio.
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2022-07-1147 minLaborwave RadioWilliam Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Theories and PoliticsNick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster, former president the Communist Party USA and trade unionist involved in the early IWW and AFL.
We adopt a critical lens discuss Foster's concepts of a "militant minority" and "boring from within" as a strategy for pulling conservative unions to the left. Driedger also explains the reaction and criticism leveled against Foster's ideas when he presented them to the IWW in 1911.
This and more on the latest episode of Laborwave Radio.
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2022-06-0643 min
Laborwave RadioMedia Strategies for Unions, A Wobbly's Take with Graham KovichGraham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
Graham is running for the role of Communications Officer for the IWW and explains his viewpoints on the need for internally focused communications that are member-driven, and how and when it's most effective to utilize external communications to meet union needs.
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2022-05-0734 min
Laborwave RadioOn The Line w/ Daisy PitkinDaisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for U.S. labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. Her essays have been awarded the Montana Prize, the DISQUIET Literary Prize, the New Millennium Award, and the Monique Wittig Writer’s Scholarship. She grew up in rural Ohio and received an MFA from the University of Arizona. Pitkin lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works as...
2022-04-1243 min
Labor goes to the MoviesLabor films at the SAG AwardsLGTTM co-host Chris Garlock got to know Harold Phillips a couple of years ago when he started working with Chris to build the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Harold, who now co-hosts the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, has been a working actor for more than thirty years, with dozens of movie and TV credits. On today’s show, we find out how Harold got into acting, the huge amount of work behind the Screen Actors Guild Awards– which air this Sunday, February 27 at 8pm ET on TNT and TBS – and Harold’s picks for the most laborific films no...
2022-02-2558 min
Laborwave RadioClass Struggle Unionism [cross-over w/ Wobcast!]Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
Marianne Garneau collaborates on this interview with Joe Burns about his forthcoming book from Haymarket, Class Struggle Unionism.
The current labor movement is dominated, and negatively influenced, by what Burns describes as "labor liberalism." In order to revive a militant union movement, he argues, we need to break free of labor liberalism and return to the aggressive tactics that animate the spirit of class struggle.
To order a copy of the book, visit https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1767-class-struggle-unionism
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2022-01-1151 min
Laborwave RadioIntersectional Class StruggleMichael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building geared toward the task of fighting all forms of oppression.
Get a copy of the book that informs this conversation at https://www.akpress.org/intersectional-class-struggle.html
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2021-12-2047 min
Laborwave RadioOrganizing the White Lotus w/ Liz from Rebel StepsLiz, host of Rebel Steps podcast, joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!
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2021-12-0753 min
Laborwave RadioShop Talk: Are They An Organic Leader or Bootlicker?Andrea Haverkamp, a labor organizer based in Seattle, joins the show to talk shop about organic leaders, private vs public sector organizing approaches, one-on-one conversations, internal democracy, and more!
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2021-11-161h 00
Laborwave RadioState of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCMEBill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States. Workers are increasingly atomized in the US, and the state continues to rollback any investments into the reproductive labor that stitches society together. The moment, as Fletcher Jr states, that organized labor can seize for victory is almost over. We might not get another moment.
What role do teachers strikes, worker-owned businesses, and housing cooperatives play in seizing this current moment? How do the rank and file push labor leadership to understand that we cannot continue doing "business as usual" despite...
2021-11-011h 02
Laborwave RadioReviving The StrikeJoe Burns, a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer and the author of Strike Back and Reviving the Strike, joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement. His forthcoming book is Class Struggle Unionism, from Haymarket Books.
Burns highlights the limitations of labor strategies that prioritize either reforming labor law, electing new labor officials, or seek to "organize our way out of the crisis" by increasing union density. All of these approaches, while they may possess beneficial aspects, fall short of accomplishing the rebirth of a militant labor movement if they...
2021-10-1850 min
Laborwave RadioLenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are PoliticalMarianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
Garneau's provides a necessary corrective over common views amongst "socialists" that work and politics are two separate spheres in which struggle takes place. Following the wrongheaded opinion of Lenin, who assessed workers as only capable of rising to a level of "trade union consciousness," these socialists, according to Garneau, "take a surprisingly apolitical view of what goes on in the workplace."
2021-10-0446 min
Laborwave RadioBeauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
Graham and I imagine ourselves as two salt shakers, transformed into our alienated selves along with our fellow servants, under the repressive thumb of the "Beast" in a far-away castle in a long ago time.
What pressure do we as servants have to change our circumstances? How can we recruit Belle into an ally in our struggle? And what role does emotional leverage have in orchestrating a servant uprising?
We talk about this as well as the similarities between the conditions faced by...
2021-09-2034 min
Laborwave RadioAn Anarchist Theory of the Modern StateEric Laursen, author of The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State, joins the show to provide a concrete analysis of the State as opposed to states and compares the modern state to an operating system.
As he explains, the State seeks to be everything. The State absorbs dissent and incorporates it into building a more expansive State. Though humans created the State, it has become nearly autonomous and now shapes our conceptions of ourselves.
How do we break away from the State? What would it look like to replace the State? These challenging questions and more in...
2021-09-0650 min
Laborwave RadioEWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a joint partnership of the DSA and UE. Dirnbach challenges organized labor to train one million workers for unionizing the masses, and we discuss whether popular education models such as EWOC are suited for the task.
Also discussed are the prospects for syndicalism to meet the task of organizing one million workers, and the role mainstream unions can or should have in popular education for organizing workers.
Read the articles written by Dirnbach on EWOC at https://workerorganizing.org/millions-of-workers-want-a-union-ewoc-shows-how-to-help-2382/
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2021-08-231h 05
Regras do Jogo - HolodeckRegras Do Jogo #113 – Boteco Holodeck: Denúncias Na Activision Blizzard E Riot GamesNeste episódio conversamos sobre as recentes denúncias da Activision Blizzard, que vieram à público após revelação de um processo contra o conglomerado pelo California Department of Fair Employment and Housing que se iniciou em 2018 e descobriu uma série de crimes e violações, indo de pagamento inferior à funcionárias até o RH encobrindo casos de assédio sexual, sendo um dos casos mais graves levado ao suicídio da vítima. Também falamos da matéria da Kotaku que revelou a existência de um quarto de hotel apelidado de “suite do Bill Cosby”, referência ao ator condenad...
2021-08-122h 06
Laborwave RadioA Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union DeclineGabriel Winant, historian and author of The Next Shift, joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
Our conversation focuses on worker rebellion, the political failure alongside economic gains for organized labor in the postwar era, and the lessons we can learn from the defeat of the New Deal.
He draws attention to the period known as the "great exception," where unions experienced their high-water mark in power and organization, and problematizes some of the common claims about this era. Particularly, Winant shows how the present...
2021-08-1045 min
Laborwave RadioComrades Read Singlejack Solidarity by Stan WeirComrades Luke and Tim join the show to discuss the rank and file critique of business unionism put forward by Stan Weir.
Throughout his writings and his life Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."
Our conversation focuses on Stan Weir's critique of "business unionism," guided by his confidence in the capacity of workers organizing their own independent and radical unions. Weir provides a corrective to the story of the CIO where he highlights how the CIO was formed by rank and file...
2021-07-2653 min
Laborwave RadioYou Say You Want a General Strike?Re-issue of our conversation with Marianne Garneau discussing her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?"
Garneau takes a critical look at general strikes conducted in Europe and argues they have not had the powerful impacts popularly imagined by US audiences. She then discusses the possibilities of importing the tactic to the United States.
Read the full article at https://organizing.work/2019/08/you-say-you-want-a-general-strike/
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2021-07-1339 min
Laborwave RadioGet Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop BeggingHamilton Nolan joins the show to elaborate on his article "Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging" written for In These Times.
Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power. He identifies the weaknesses of organized labor within a paradigm of collective bargaining where surrendering the right to strike is the norm, and argues that in order to turn the tide of union power in the US it is necessary for rank and file union members to commit to reclaiming the strike and eliminating no strike clauses from their contracts.
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2021-06-2938 min
Laborwave RadioUnionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth LaycakVeteran labor organizer, Elizabeth Laycak, joins the show to discuss how two new workers employed by Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA would initiate a unionization campaign with a strategy to win.
We cover mapping and charting, assessments, identifying leaders (and isolating anti-union workers), along with the importance of secrecy and inoculation throughout the campaign.
Very fun episode and Laborwave Radio is making an open invitation to any of our listeners that wish to discuss the hypothetical union campaign they would conduct at any fictional workplace on television or the big screen! Contact LR at laborwavenews@gmail.com if...
2021-06-1542 min
Laborwave RadioShop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United ChicagolandRuby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing and direct unionism.
They share stories of how AU emerged, initially through breaking bread and resocializing the workplace, to their first direct action demanding access to water in the shop.
We also discussed the dismissal of AU by proponents of business unionism, and offer a critique of conventional labor union practices.
Learn more about AU at https://www.amazoniansunited.org/
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2021-06-0159 min
Laborwave RadioUnion Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-BrownMarybeth Seitz-Brown, organizer and former rank-and-file member with the NewsGuild of New York, joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and pushing union members to tackle the biggest issues of the day.
Building off her article, "The Left Needs to Engage Members If We Want to Win Big" in The Forge, Marybeth puts forward grounded advice on how to develop methods for ensuring union democracy is an active practice and organizing approaches workers with the expectation that their politics and activity can change over time.
We discuss why it matters to view...
2021-05-1136 min
Laborwave Radio[Film Review] Lapsis, or Capitalism is a Ponzi SchemeComrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton. In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli takes a job in the gig economy. He begins pulling cable to link together the new quantum trading market.
We talk about the film's realistic depiction of working in the gig economy and the power of organizing against it, the tactic of sabotage, and how capitalism is a ponzi scheme that keeps us sick and pits automation against the toiling masses and natural environment.
Thanks to Taylor Hess, film producer for making it...
2021-04-2858 min
Srsly WrongMalls After the Revolution (Laborwave Radio Appearance)Interview Shawn did with Laborwave Radio imagining how something like a shopping mall might look in a future Library Socialist society Link to Aaron’s youtube stream about Ted Kaczinski’s Articlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDWowH_Vvc Support Srsly...
2021-04-201h 14Srsly WrongMalls After the Revolution (Laborwave Radio Appearance)
Interview Shawn did with Laborwave Radio imagining how something like a shopping mall might look in a future Library Socialist society
Link to Aaron’s youtube stream about Ted Kaczinski’s Articlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDWowH_Vvc
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2021-04-201h 14
Srsly WrongMalls After the Revolution (Laborwave Radio Appearance)This is an interview Shawn did on Laborwave Radio (https://www.laborwaveradio.com) about imagining how something like a shopping mall might look in a future Library Socialist society
Aaron's youtube stream about Ted Kaczinski's Article
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2021-04-201h 14
Laborwave RadioUnion Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK LeesMK Lees, contributor and regular editor of Organizing Work, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign, and the need to refine this practice for optimal impact.
Among topics discussed in this episode is a response to the claim that salting is the best strategy for revitalizing a militant labor movement, and how salting done well abides by understanding that a salt cannot substitute for a committee of rank and file workers.
The article, "Salt: The Flavor, Not the Meal," published in Organizing Work formed the basis of our conversation. Read it...
2021-04-1249 min
Laborwave RadioEp. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View of the Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom WetzelTom Wetzel, author of the forthcoming book Overcoming Capitalism from AK Press, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.
Our conversation focuses on arguments made by Wetzel in two pieces for Black Rose Anarchist Federation, The Case for Building New Unions https://blackrosefed.org/the-case-for-building-new-unions-wetzel/; and The Rank and File Strategy: A Syndicalist View https://blackrosefed.org/wetzel-rank-and-file-strategy-syndicalist/
Wetzel points out that Moody's strategy exclusively relies on transforming existing business unions, an unlikely task but also one that overlooks how nearly 90% of workers do not belong to unions and can be organized...
2021-03-3045 minLaborwave RadioEp. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File StrategyComrades Andrea Haverkamp, Nick Fisher, Tim and Joe Clement join Laborwave Radio for another series of Comrades Read!
We dig into the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.
We provide a summary of Moody's argument, that socialists are marginal in labor unions and therefore need to create "transitional organizations" to insert radical activity into unions and build toward a larger international socialist organization, and also talk through our points of agreement, departure, and the possible limits of the rank and file strategy.
Comrades challenged the idea that unions need...
2021-03-161h 18
Laborwave RadioBen Fletcher, Racial Capitalism, & Anti-Racist Unions w/ Peter ColePeter Cole joins the show to discuss the second edition of his book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly published by PM Press.
The range and scope of this episode expands over the backdrop of early 20th century Philadelphia and recounts the biographical details of Wobbly organizer Ben Fletcher and the tale of IWW Local 8, a powerful dock workers union that practiced anti-racist unionism which Ben Fletcher helped to create. We also discuss the demise of Local 8, brought down by a multitude of historical forces such as WWI and employer counter-offensives as well as fraught internal...
2021-03-021h 09
Mil's podcastCrossover Collab with LaborWave Radio!In this special episode of the podcast, we have a nice long chat with Alex from the Laborwave Radio podcast. It was a great talk about a variety of things and it was really nice of Alex to have us on. So listen in and if you want to be a part of that future and join in the one big union, or just have questions for us about organizing your workplace, reach out at ypsilantigmb@gmail.com and remember, an injury to one is an injury to all. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com...
2021-02-1650 min
One Big PodcastCrossover Collab with LaborWave Radio! In this special episode of the podcast, we have a nice long chat with Alex from the Laborwave Radio podcast. It was a great talk about a variety of things and it was really nice of Alex to have us on. So listen in and if you want to be a part of that future and join in the one big union, or just have questions for us about organizing your workplace, reach out at ypsilantigmb@gmail.com and remember, an injury to one is an injury to all. Enjoy!
2021-02-1650 min
Laborwave RadioTalking Union Shop: Solidarity Unionism & the IWW w/ One Big PodcastLaborwave Radio and the One Big Podcast collaborate on this episode discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism.
We dig into the various tenets of solidarity unionism; its emphasis on direct action over contracts, focus on the workplace and industry over legal strategies and electoralism, and the prospects for dual-carding in a shop represented by a business union.
One Big Podcast is the official podcast of the Ypsilanti IWW, listen to the podcast and find out more about the branch at https://www.iwwypsi.org/
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2021-02-1656 min
Laborwave RadioWork Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah JaffeSarah Jaffe, author, labor journalist, and one of the hosts of Belabored Podcast, joins Laborwave Radio to discuss her new book, Work Won't Love You Back published by Bold Type Books.
You’re told that if you “do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” But as Sarah Jaffe shows, “doing what you love” is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
We discuss the themes of the book, the downsides when punk rock is created by trust fund kids, and wh...
2021-02-0150 min
Laborwave RadioOrganized Labor Shouldn’t Expect Much From President Joe Biden w/ Alex PressSupport Laborwave Radio at patreon.com/laborwave
Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials and what organized labor should and shouldn't expect from a Biden administration. As made clear in this interview- not much without a fight.
We also dig into the details of the PRO Act, the types of unions the working class wants and needs, and how the primary means for workers to win progressive legislation is to form militant unions and engage in class struggle.
This interview follows an article from Alex Press that you...
2021-01-1948 min
Laborwave RadioThe Union Busting Playbook & How to Fight It as Told by Workers at No Evil FoodsSustain Laborwave Radio by becoming a patron at patreon.com/laborwave
Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against a unionization campaign organized by employees. Megan, John, and Max discuss in detail the tactics of No Evil Foods union busting, including a marathon series of captive audience meetings totaling 14 hours, illegal firings, and censorship, and how workers should prepare for aggressive anti-union campaigns conducted by bosses. We also delved into a conversation about "solidarity unionism" and the IWW as a viable alternative to conventional union recognition campaigns.
This episode includes never heard before...
2021-01-121h 22
Laborwave RadioAmazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen ReeseSupport Laborwave Radio at patreon.com/laborwave
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese are the editors of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy published by Pluto Press. Order a copy at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/
With cutting-edge analysis, this book looks at the many facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggle, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more.
Mentioned in the talk is a panel event with the editors from November, when this episode was recorded, you've missed that discussion but you can watch the video of it at...
2020-12-3051 min
Laborwave RadioThe Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne GarneauThe IWW is 115 years old! In celebration we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work to discuss the nuts and bolts of organizing within the IWW and our future as a union.
What accounts for the recent upsurge in IWW organizing campaigns? How do we make more universal for all Wobblies our educational documents and training programs? What, if any, strategic industries should we focus on and should we target smaller workplaces or larger ones to build power? Finally, how much should we branch off from organizing in the workplace to forms of organizing outside of it?
We discuss...
2020-12-151h 03
Laborwave Radio(Preview) Amazon Capitalism w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen ReesePreview of our upcoming episode w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese, editors of the book The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy available from Pluto Press.
2020-12-0703 min
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsG&R Episode 54: "Meeting People Where They Are At" w/ Alex from Laborwave RadioWhat's it gonna take to build a better world when 74 million people voted for Trump?
In this episode, we dive deep into this question with Alex Riccio, host of the podcast Laborwave Radio (@LaborwaveRadio). We talk about workplace organizing, meeting people where they are at, imagining the world "Beyond the Revolution" and much more.
Alex is the host and producer of Laborwave Radio. He also is a labor organizer and sometimes a writer.
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2020-12-0549 min
Laborwave RadioMalls After The Revolution w/ Shawn of Srsly WrongLaborwave Radio presents a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution.
After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society.
Our fourth episode is Malls After the Revolution featuring Shawn of Srsly Wrong, a utopian leftist comedy podcast (https://sr...
2020-12-011h 09
Radicalize MeAlex Riccio: Anti-Capitalist WorkaholicAlex Riccio is a labor organizer and the host of Laborwave Radio on YouTube and all the familiar podcast platforms. LaborwaveRadio.com
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2020-11-2454 min
Laborwave RadioStrikes are for power not popularity, cross-post w/ Anarres Project for Alternative FuturesCrossposting an interview Laborwave Radio host, Alex Riccio, had with Joseph Orosco of the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures about the #ScholarStrike.
The recent online #ScholarStrike claimed to be a way for higher ed faculty to engage in radical action in support of racial justice and against police violence in the US. In the conversation I argue that the #ScholarStrike missed big opportunities for social change and revealed some misunderstandings that many academics have about power and their own place in systems of oppression. Rather than have digital conferences, higher education workers should build alternative organizations to challenge the power...
2020-11-2359 min
Laborwave Radio(Preview) Future of the IWW w/ Marianne Garneau & Nick DriedgerMarianne Garneau, editor and contributor of Organizing Work, and Nick Driedger, regular contributor to Organizing Work, joined Laborwave Radio to discuss the future and present of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
This is a preview clip from the episode set to be released in full in December 2020.
2020-11-2204 min
Luna RossaScene regionali: SovietwaveIn questo nuovo episodio di “Scene regionali”, la rubrica dedicata alla musica di un determinato territorio o area geografica, passiamo dai confini fisici a quelli virtuali dell’internet.Trattiamo stavolta qualcosa di completamente diverso parlando di Sovietwave (detta anche Laborwave), una derivazione della Vaporwave che utilizza elementi sovietici e comunisti.Gli appassionati di internet e meme magari la conosco già, ma oggi la esploreremo andando anche un po’ al di là del suo fenomeno mediatico e approfondendo invece l’essenza e lo spirito di questa musica.
2020-11-2043 min
Laborwave RadioEp. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & MichaelJoin in on the fun Discord conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave
We're reading books, sharing articles, and watching movies via discord with our patreon subscribers.
We've finished No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey! Each chapter has been discussed at length in our series Comrades Read Together, and three veteran labor organizers join us for this final conversation.
Michael Marchmann, staff organizer for GTFF 3544, Sarah Pishioneri, staff organizer for CGE 6069, and Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, chat with Laborwave Radio about the difference between "pretend power" and "real power."
Our conversation circles largely around...
2020-11-181h 29
Laborwave RadioClass Power on Zero Hours w/ the Angry WorkersWe spoke with members of the Angry Workers, a political collective, about the insights from their recent PM Press title, "Class Power on Zero Hours."
The Angry Workers spent the last six years working in a London backyard mostly among food and manufacturing workers, and they've chronicled their experiences as well as their efforts to organize alongside these workers in an expansive book. We speak about these experiences as well as the lessons learned from the ground, and the need to develop revolutionary forms of organization internationally.
You can contact the Angry Workers at angryworkersworld@gmail.com or on their...
2020-11-111h 10
Laborwave RadioAnarchist Election AnxietyOn Election Night comrades of the show got together to play games, talk politics, and ease election anxiety (as much as that was possible). Here's a short clip of our four-hour hangout where we discussed Emma Goldman's position on women's suffrage and state politics, the Black Rose Anarchist Federation article on Voting or Abstention, and a recent Contrapoints video discussing the subject of voting for the lesser of two evils. Comrades heard here include Andrea, Kali, and Tali.
Laborwave will continue putting videos and hangouts such as these on our YouTube, and you can access all of our content and...
2020-11-0520 minLaborwave RadioDavid Graeber: A Celebration & Discussion of Ideas w/ comrades Tony Vogt & Shane CapraDavid Graeber was an anthropologist, proponent of anarchism, and participant in many movement struggles of the past two decades including the Alter-Globalization movement and Occupy Wall Street. Among his popular authored books includes Debt: The First 5,000 Years, The Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs, and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. He passed on September 2, 2020.
We discuss his ideas and celebrate his memory in this conversation with comrades Tony Vogt, member of the IWW and co-founder of the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, and Shane Capra, an organizer and participant in the Institute for Advanced Troublemaking and member of the IWW.
Our...
2020-11-011h 07Laborwave Radio(Preview) Malls After the Revolution w/ Shawn from Srsly WrongA preview of our next installment of After the Revolution, a mini-series exploring aspects of a future revolutionary society that goes deeper than just what we are against to articulate our desires and wants in a society centered on emancipation.
Shawn from Srsly Wrong podcast joins Laborwave Radio to discuss how current shopping malls can be creatively reinterpreted for a future after the revolution. Full episode will be published soon!
Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/laborwave & check out our friends at Srsly Wrong at https://srslywrong.com/
2020-10-2504 min
Laborwave RadioReflections on Occupy Wall Street w/ Marina Sitrin & Vanessa ZettlerWe discussed the legacy and experiences of Occupy Wall Street with two movement participants Marina Sitrin and Vanessa Zettlers, contributors to the recent title Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis published by Pluto Press.
Our conversation touched on the ways to recover the real history of OWS and overcome "historical forgetting," the mechanics of OWS through forms of direct democracy such as assemblies and working groups, and the lessons learned from this movement including the need to better anticipate "the fist of the state."
In The Red Records, an independent music label based in Los Angeles, has provided...
2020-10-2152 min
Laborwave RadioA Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening PlansWe spoke with Amir Fleischmann of the Graduate Employee Organization, a union at the University of Michigan, about their latest strike leveraged to fight the university's reckless reopening plans amid a pandemic.
Amir provides a play-by-play of the strike, the events leading up to it and the larger context in which it occurred, and how their union was able to raise expectations and demonstrate the organic links between worker justice and social justice.
We discuss the demands of the strike, including demands to disarm and defund campus police, and take a look at the strike's mechanics and how workers were...
2020-10-0742 minLaborwave RadioHighlights from Three Years of Laborwave RadioLaborwave Radio is celebrating it's three-year anniversary!
We've put together a highlight reel from our latest year featuring Jarrod Shanahan, Asad Haider, Boots Riley, Raj Patel, Holly Lewis, Micah Uetricht, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Sarah Jaffe, Natasha Lennard, Liza Featherstone, Bill Fletcher Jr, Andrea Haverkamp, Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips, Nick Driedger, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
We also take a moment to reflect on our history and give a shoutout to all our patreon members! Lots of credit needs to be given to our frequent guest host Andrea Haverkamp for all her work dreaming up this podcast and helping sustain it, thank y...
2020-09-302h 30Laborwave RadioEp. 4 Comrades Read Together, "If We Can Change The White House, We Can Change The Hog House"Join in on the fun Discord conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave
Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, joins Laborwave to discuss chapters 5 & 6 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey; "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House!"
Our conversation highlights the importance of connecting our movement histories to fight against the consistent bracketing of social movements as self-contained and insular phenomenons, making the role of staff transparent and accountable for developing the leadership of the rank-and-file, and also pose some hard questions for the...
2020-09-1555 minLaborwave RadioIdentity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi TáíwòJoining Laborwave is Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, to discuss his piece on Identity Politics and Elite Capture published by the Boston Review.
"If elite capture boils down to the way power and resources tend to be distributed within groups, and not simply across groups, then it is a fully general problem of politics in a world that distributes power and resources unjustly and unequally. Elites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by, more or less, the same methods and for the same reasons that they get control over everyth...
2020-08-3155 minLaborwave RadioEp. 3 Comrades Read Together w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea Haverkamp: No Shortcuts, chapters 3 & 4Join in on the fun conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave
Ellen Kress, former president of GTFF 3544 and current AFT-Oregon officer, and Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, join Laborwave for a comradely discussion on chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.
These chapters are full of exercises and advice for rookie organizers, which we discuss in detail, and talks STRIKES!!! We're introduced to another villain of the working class in the form of Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago, and shown the bravery and heroism of teachers that...
2020-08-251h 11Laborwave RadioEp. 2 Comrades Read Together w/ Nick Driedger: No Shortcuts, But to Where?Join the conversations around this book in our Laborwave Discord by becoming any type of patron of the show at patreon.com/laborwave !!!
This is our second episode of Comrades Read Together where we're discussing, chapter by chapter, the book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.
We follow up our conversation tackling the introduction and chapter 2 with a review of the book by Nick Dreidger, contributing writer to Organizing Work!
Dreidger asks the tough questions about the political horizons achievable under a labor relations framework, and whether it's possible for "business unions" to break out of...
2020-08-1858 minLaborwave RadioEp. 1 Comrades Read Together-No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAleveyBecome a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave
Andrea Haverkamp, President of CGE 6069; Sarah Pishioneri, labor organizer based in Oregon; and Alex Riccio, labor organizer based in Philadelphia; have a comradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.
Join us in discussion and some reading sessions on our Discord server! You can get in on the fun by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave and joining as a Rank-and-Filer, or Committee Member, or Strike Captain. Once joined, you'll receive an invitation to our Discord where...
2020-08-111h 03
Laborwave RadioWildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara PhillipsLaborwave Radio speaks with Shannon Ikebe and Tara Phillips, two striking workers at the University of California, on the power of wildcat strikes, importance of deep internal union democracy, and organizing worker insurgencies. They are the authors of the piece, The Grassroots Wildcat Strike for a COLA and the Fight for a Democratic, Militant Union.
Shannon Ikebe is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. They study social democracy and labor movements in Europe.
Tara Phillips is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California Berkeley where she studies US and Latin American...
2020-08-0456 min
Laborwave RadioWaste After The RevolutionLaborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution.
After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society.
Our third episode is Waste After the Revolution featuring Andrea Haverkamp, pr...
2020-07-1143 minLaborwave RadioPolice, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher JrBill Fletcher Jr is a long-time labor leader and author of multiple books, including Solidarity Divided: The Crisis In Organized Labor And A New Path Toward Social Justice (co-author Dr. Fernando Gapasin) and a new mystery thriller The Man Who Fell From The Sky.
We speak on the emerging demands on the AFL-CIO to sever ties with police unions, which Bill Fletcher Jr cautions could have the consequence of providing the right-wing with scripts to claim police are being victimized by the left, and enable Trumpists to more easily stoke reactionary fires. Fletcher suggests that our focus should be more...
2020-06-1648 minLaborwave RadioRent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United CorvallisFull audio and transcript will be available at laborwaveradio.com/rentstrikes
Two part episode on Laborwave, we speak with tenant organizers from Tenants United Corvallis (TUC), a committee of the Mid-Valley IWW, about their efforts to scale up a rent strike in the Mid-Willamette Valley. We follow that segment by speaking with Liza Featherstone, a journalist featured in The Nation and Jacobin, about rent strike activities in New York as well as a broader conversation about relations of power between the tenant and landlord classes.
Tenants United Corvallis (TUC) can be reached via their website at midvalleyiww.org
Liza Featherstone...
2020-05-291h 07Laborwave RadioNon-fascist Life in Times of Crisis w/ Natasha LennardFull audio & transcript at laborwaveradio.com/natashalennard
Laborwave speaks with Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-fascist Life from Verso Books and contributing contributing writer at The Intercept. Her work covers politics and power and has appeared in Esquire, The Nation, and the New York Times opinion section.
Lennard discusses non-fascist life during the crisis of capitalism, intensified by a pandemic, and helps analyze this moment in terms of "accidents" and full surrogacy for each other.
Preface:
"What would it look like if we were all surrogates for each other in all kinds of different ways. If we...
2020-05-1649 minLaborwave RadioMay Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah JaffeMay Day Amid A Plague with Sarah Jaffe
Full Audio & Transcript at laborwaveradio.com/sarahjaffe
[edited for clarity, May 1, 2020]
Laborwave Radio in conversation with Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, which Robin D.G. Kelley called “The most compelling social and political portrait of our age.” She is a Type Media Center reporting fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-h...
2020-05-0151 min
Laborwave RadioThe Political Party After The RevolutionTranscript Forthcoming at laborwaveradio.com/gianpaolo
Laborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution.
After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society.
Our second episode is The Po...
2020-04-2158 minLaborwave RadioBigger than Bernie: The Road to Democratic Socialism w/ Micah UetrichtFull audio and transcript available at laborwaveradio.com/micahuetricht
We spoke with Micah Uetricht, managing editor at Jacobin Magazine and co-author of the recent Verso title, Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go From The Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism.
"Bernie's campaign, and the campaigns that have followed his, should show that there is also a way to do electoral politics that is actually spurring more class struggle, not tamping it down. Marxism is about both the objective conditions that you face, as well as the subjective efforts you can make to change the world. Good Marxism, in my opinion, always...
2020-04-0747 minLaborwave RadioTowards A Queer Marxist Future with Holly LewisTranscript available at laborwaveradio.com/hollylewis
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We speak with Holly Lewis, assistant professor at Texas State University and author of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection published by Zed Books.
The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer and Marxist analysis. Those who have propose the key contested site to...
2020-03-2558 min
Laborwave RadioRaj Patel: The Dinner Table After The RevolutionLaborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution.
Full audio and transcript available at laborwaveradio.com/rajpatel
After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society.
Our first...
2020-02-1739 min
Laborwave RadioBoots Riley on Power, Art, and the Radical Dr. KingA special audio reproduction of a live discussion with Boots Riley! Full transcript available at laborwaveradio.com/bootsriley
This event was organized by the Coalition of Graduate Employees (CGE 6069) and King Legacy Advisory Board (KLAB) to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and CGE's 20th Anniversary as a formally recognized labor union.
Moderated by Andrea Haverkamp, Boots Riley discusses a wide range of topics including the left's move from organizing power at the point of production to a form of political protest as "spectacle," the role of radical and subversive art in modern culture, and the need...
2020-02-031h 24
Laborwave RadioRace and Class in the Age of Trump w/ Asad HaiderFull Transcript Available At:
laborwaveradio.com/asadhaider
What is the relationship between race and class, and which should be the primary focus for addressing on the level of political organizing? Questions such as these, argues our guest Asad Haider, miss the mark as they seek to make determinations about the world at the level of conceptual abstractions.
Furthermore, he suggests, such questions slide into a muddled debate between advancing either universalist or particularist demands. The reality, he suggests, is that the abolition of white supremacy and the advancing of class struggle are by necessity universal programs beginning with particular demands.
...
2020-01-2047 min
Laborwave RadioTreason To Whiteness Is Loyalty To Humanity: The Life of Noel Ignatiev w/ Jarrod ShanahanFull transcript at laborwaveradio.com/jarrodshanahan
We explore the life and legacy of Noel Ignatiev through conversation with Jarrod Shanahan, a life-long comrade of Noel's and co-editor along with Noel Ignatiev on the journal Hard Crackers.
Noel Ignatiev passed on November 9, 2019 at the age of 78. He was a dedicated antiracist leftist who edited the journals Race Traitor and Hard Crackers and wrote the widely influential book How The Irish Became White. The enduring legacy of Noel Ignatiev's life and thought may best be summed up by the slogan printed on the cover of Race Traitor: "treason to whiteness is loyalty...
2020-01-0541 min
Laborwave RadioImagining a Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production w/ Alexander RiccioFirst time for Laborwave, an audio essay from our show host Alex Riccio originally published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies (anarchiststudies.org).
Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production
"Victories against the boss are transformative for workers. They cultivate a sense of new possibilities and openings previously viewed as impossible. The task, then, is to expand the arenas where victories take place. In this way, what may begin as a victory against landlords and project for cooperative housing contains the potential of enlarging its imaginative capacities to become the pathway where a recognition is made that...
2019-11-141h 00
Laborwave RadioGraduate Employee Strike At UO and Fighting for Worker Control w/ Lola LoustaunauThe Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF 3544) has authorized a strike to begin on November 4, 2019 at the University of Oregon. More than 1,000 workers authorized the strike after 11 months of intense negotiations with university management.
Lola Loustaunau, a graduate employee and member of GTFF, discusses the strategy GTFF has adopted for their collective bargaining efforts, the reasons the strike has been authorized, and the broader experience these negotiations have had on fellow workers and union members.
She also provides personal insights into how public universities are using a post-Janus environment as an opportunity to try to discipline and destroy higher ed unions...
2019-10-281h 01
Laborwave RadioDemocratic Socialism In The Oregon Legislature w/ Paige KreismanIn 2018 Oregon voters, particularly teachers and public workers, propelled the Oregon legislature to supermajority Democratic control. But instead of delivering on the promises of protecting union workers and funding public services the Democrats, despite their supermajority in the legislature, have cut public pensions and capitulated to Republicans on a number of bills revealing the extent to which neoliberal ideology dictates the policy-making of Oregon Democrats.
In response, Paige Kreisman has launched a bid for District 42 of the Oregon legislature and openly proclaims herself to be a socialist with a platform to support working-class Oregonians.
She is endorsed by the Portland...
2019-10-0539 min
Laborwave RadioYou Say You Want A General Strike? w/ Marianne GarneauCalls for a general strike in the United States have become a common phenomenon. Activists and organizers have encouraged general strikes to accomplish goals ranging from climate justice to reproductive justice, and these inspired appeals to massive disruption signal in some respects a desire for fast and dramatic social change.
But what is a general strike and how effective are they in accomplishing social change on a societal scale? And can such strikes be imported into the United States? These questions and more are discussed in our conversation with Marianne Garneau.
Marianne Garneau wrote the recent article for Organizing Work "...
2019-09-1841 min
Laborwave RadioAbolition Studies Against Academia w/ Eli Meyerhoff & Zach Schwartz-WeinsteinWhat role have universities in the United States played in the making and continuation of settler-colonialism, white supremacy, and more recently neoliberal capitalism? Have universities been the unwilling victims of the corporatization of higher education, or have they been active agents in their own neoliberal transformation? And how true are common narratives that universities once experienced a golden age of progressive knowledge production and shared governance in a post-WWII United States?
All of these questions and more are discussed in this episode with our guests Eli Meyerhoff and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein. Meyerhoff and Schwartz-Weinstein also open up the conversation to discuss...
2019-09-1159 min
Laborwave RadioTurn This World Inside Out: The Opposite of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture w/ Nora SamaranLaborwave spoke with Nora Samaran about her recent publication, Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, printed by AK Press.
Our conversation ranged from topics of trauma, violence, rape culture, numbness, entitlement, and gaslighting along with care, nurturance, healing, empathy, attachment, and systemic change.
Turn This World Inside Out tackles all of these subjects along with dialogues on white supremacy, transphobia, settler colonization, and the power of turning our gifts for healing toward societal change.
Get a copy from AK Press at:
https://www.akpress.org/turn-this-world-inside-out.html
Read Nora Samaran at:
https://norasamaran.com/
Nora Samaran...
2019-08-071h 13
Laborwave RadioHighlights from Season TwoWe reproduce highlights from interviews in our second season of Laborwave. More episodes from Laborwave will be released in the late summer of 2019.
Highlights include clips from our interviews with:
Marianne Garneau on the Women's Strike. Garneau explains why it is necessary to have specific targets tied to specific demands within a larger strategic plan in order to be effective in any struggle for working class improvements, and how all of these features are absent from the IWS, so far.
Shane Burley on Lessons from the Burgerville Workers Union. In addition to lesson from BVWU's victories we discussed the need...
2019-06-1249 min
Laborwave RadioPleasure Activism w/ adrienne maree brown @ Opening Space for the Radical Imagination IIadrienne maree brown was one of the keynote speakers at Opening Space for the Radical Imagination II, a two-day conference on April 19-20 2019 in the occupied lands of the Kalapuya people.
Her keynote address covered her recent title, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour...
2019-05-031h 05
Laborwave RadioPremonitions on the Culture of Revolt w/ AK Thompson"At their best, premonitions alert us to the unresolved history contained within the smallest of fragments. The distress that such attentiveness yields makes sense; it corresponds to the developmental outcomes demanded by the neurotic course on which we're set. Such outcomes are not inevitable, however, and Premonitions may yet suggest another path."
We spoke with AK Thompson about his recent book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt. Our conversation touched on subjects as wide-ranging as Occupy Wall Street and decolonization to prefigurative politics and James Cameron's Avatar.
AK Thompson is a activist, author, and social theorist. A professor...
2019-04-011h 06
Laborwave RadioWomen's Strike, Reconsidered w/ Marianne GarneauThe International Women's Strike (IWS) is now in its third year of operation, and the feminist thinkers Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser have developed the ideas of IWS in their recent book Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, published by Verso Books. But what is the actual strategy for launching a strike at the level of reproductive labor, as the authors claim is necessary for revitalizing working class struggle?
This question and more animates the conversation we had with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work and a labor organizer based in New York. In this episode Garneau elaborates her...
2019-03-2445 min
Laborwave RadioLessons from the Burgerville Workers Union w/ Shane BurleyThe Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU) is the first officially recognized fast-food workers union in the United States. They are an affiliate of the Industrial Workers of the World and have embraced militant union organizing strategies to do what traditional labor unions have been unable to accomplish by forming a fast-food workers union.
We spoke with Shane Burley about his recent piece for Think Progress on BVWU and learned more about how these workers were able to succeed in forming their union, how long the fight has been happening, and what challenges lay in front of Burgerville workers.
We also discussed...
2019-02-2641 min
Laborwave RadioBorder Politics, Antifascism, and the Tangled Knot of Oppressions w/ Hillary LazarWe spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional frameworks to movement organizing, and pushing beyond "bread & butter" unionism toward liberatory unionism.
Our talk begins with a conversation about Hillary Lazar's recent essay, Connecting Our Struggles: Border Politics, Antifascism, and Lessons from the Trials of Ferrero, Sallito, and Graham published in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (n.30). The piece focuses on the lost history of anarchist editors and supporters of the periodical Man! who were swept up in an anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist political reaction during the early part of the 20th century...
2019-02-071h 14
Laborwave RadioState of Unions after Janus w/ Bill Fletcher JrBill Fletcher Jr is a long-time labor leader and author of multiple books, including Solidarity Divided: The Crisis In Organized Labor And A New Path Toward Social Justice (co-author Dr. Fernando Gapasin) and a new mystery thriller The Man Who Fell From The Sky.
In our interview, Fletcher Jr discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States. Workers are becoming increasingly atomized in the US, and the state continues to rollback any investments into the reproductive labor that stitches society together. The moment, as Fletcher Jr states, that organized labor can seize for victory is almost...
2019-01-1755 min
GamazineE08: La E3 y los mayas en la internetMientras que el Lalilulepodcast estrena nueva sintonía, los chicos comentan el gran evento del año, y no es la E3, sino las noticias del mundo sentimental de Óscar en el Persona.
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