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Published in RobotsAtWork

·Jan 12, 2021

How our bosses are spying on us during the pandemic

For as long as workers have engaged in wage labor, bosses have been finding new ways to spy on workers. Some bosses have turned to workplace surveillance to thwart union organizing and other acts of resistance. Other bosses simply want to make sure that their underpaid employees aren’t stealing from…

Covid 19

7 min read

How our bosses are spying on us during the pandemic
How our bosses are spying on us during the pandemic
Covid 19

7 min read


Published in RobotsAtWork

·Jan 3, 2021

Welcome to Robots @ Work

Back in 1930 the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within the next 100 years advances in technology would make work so productive that his grandchildren’s generation would face a “permanent problem” of how to use all of their free time. …

4 min read

Welcome to Robots @ Work
Welcome to Robots @ Work

4 min read


Nov 11, 2020

Trump will steal a second term if we let him

“WE WILL WIN!” — @RealDonaldTrump 8:44am on 11/10/20

Trump

5 min read

Trump will steal a second term if we let him
Trump will steal a second term if we let him
Trump

5 min read


Jan 20, 2020

How We #ShutDownDC in September, and How We Can Do Something Even Bigger This Spring

Last September, when young people called for global climate strikes, organizers in DC answered that call in a big way. On September 23rd, 2019 hundreds of people organized into 22 different affinity groups to blockade 17 intersections across Washington, DC, effectively shutting down business as usual in the nation’s capital…

Climate Change

9 min read

How We #ShutDownDC in September, and How We Can Do Something Even Bigger This Spring
How We #ShutDownDC in September, and How We Can Do Something Even Bigger This Spring
Climate Change

9 min read


Jul 13, 2019

#ShutItDown: Organizing to Strike for Climate Justice

https:// Throughout the 2018–2019 school year, young people around organized massive school climate strikes to demand that the world’s leaders take immediate action to address climate change. The strikes started first in Sweden, then spread throughout the European Union and around the world. By March, 15 tens of thousands of…

Climate Change

15 min read

#ShutItDown: Organizing to Strike for Climate Justice
#ShutItDown: Organizing to Strike for Climate Justice
Climate Change

15 min read


Published in GEN

·Jun 30, 2019

When Workers Bear the Burden of Climate Action

Without a just transition away from fossil fuels, workers risk being left behind — Few episodes better illustrate the complicated tensions overshadowing the climate change debate than an oil refinery closure in Pennsylvania last month. At around 4 a.m. on Friday, June 21, a massive fire and explosion rocked the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia. The explosion shook houses and apartment buildings…

Climate Change

6 min read

When Workers Bear the Burden of Climate Action
When Workers Bear the Burden of Climate Action
Climate Change

6 min read


Jun 25, 2019

Behind the Blockades

This is the fifth segment in the Lawyers, Lockboxes and Money series, a project that explores the role shared social movement infrastructure has played in social movement uprisings and how this infrastructure has evolved over time, moving across issue areas and geographies to knit together a shared fabric of progressive…

BlackLivesMatter

25 min read

Behind the Blockades
Behind the Blockades
BlackLivesMatter

25 min read


Jun 23, 2019

The Action Isn’t Over Until Everyone Is Out Of Jail

This is the fourth segment in the Lawyers, Lockboxes and Money series, a project that explores the role shared social movement infrastructure has played in social movement uprisings and how this infrastructure has evolved over time, moving across issue areas and geographies to knit together a shared fabric of progressive…

Politics

8 min read

The Action Isn’t Over Until Everyone Is Out Of Jail
The Action Isn’t Over Until Everyone Is Out Of Jail
Politics

8 min read


Jun 15, 2019

Street Medics — Keeping Our Movements Healthy and Safe

This is the third segment in the Lawyers, Lockboxes and Money series, a project that explores the role shared social movement infrastructure has played in social movement uprisings and how this infrastructure has evolved over time, moving across issue areas and geographies to knit together a shared fabric of progressive…

Health

8 min read

Street Medics — Keeping Our Movements Healthy and Safe
Street Medics — Keeping Our Movements Healthy and Safe
Health

8 min read


Jun 13, 2019

Kitchen Crews Fueling the Movement

This is the second segment in the Lawyers, Lockboxes and Money series, a project that explores the role shared social movement infrastructure has played in social movement uprisings and how this infrastructure has evolved over time, moving across issue areas and geographies to knit together a shared fabric of progressive…

Politics

10 min read

Kitchen Crews Fueling the Movement
Kitchen Crews Fueling the Movement
Politics

10 min read

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