Jonathan Rosenblum’s new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the needs of people and planet before profits.
The Trump administration eviscerated the only agency tasked with studying worker health and safety. Now, Republicans have revived a plan to stop OSHA “overreach.” Advocates fear it could further endanger workers.
Against a backdrop of mass casualty embodied by the memorial to the 53 immigrants who died locked in a tractor trailer in 2022, organizers from a range of unions and worker-support organizations rallied crowds across San Antonio last week.
As activists double down on the disruptive tactics of recent campaigns, the movement’s leaders see opportunities to broaden its base to include people concerned about pocketbook issues like jobs and the cost of housing.
Community organizer Alex Birnel sits down with labor journalist Sarah Jaffe to unpack the politics of grief and its importance to communities struggling to refashion a world of extractive violence.
Deceleration speaks with Texas AFL-CIO Deputy Policy Director Ana Gonzalez about extreme heat, worker deaths, and fighting forward in the midst of a climate emergency.
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