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Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks
Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?
The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement
The horrific attack in New Zealand was not the work a lone wolf or a few isolated radicals. It’s the latest in a series of violent events carried out by a transnational movement that wants to foment race war.
Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger
Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.
What’s (Still) the Matter with Iowa?
Unemployment “reforms” in Iowa and other states controlled by the GOP fit neatly with a larger agenda: not to protect workers from low wages, unsafe working conditions, and unbridled employer power, but to compel them to accept whatever they can get.
Belabored Podcast #170: An Amazon Autopsy, with Camille Rivera
An interview with RWDSU’s Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the Amazon HQ2 deal in Queens.
Belabored Podcast #169: Shutting it Down, with Sara Nelson
We’re joined by AFA President Sara Nelson, whose leadership of flight attendants and calls for a general strike helped end the government shutdown.
State of the Unions
The latest numbers on union membership in the public and private sectors are not pretty.
Belabored Podcast #168: Victory in L.A., with Arlene Inouye
What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.
Where the Caravan Stopped
Thousands of asylum seekers living in shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border face an uncertain future. Thousands more are heading north. A report from Tijuana.
Remembering Erik Olin Wright
Wright will be remembered as an iconic thinker who embodied the socialist vision that he worked so hard to bring forth.
Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl
A report from the picket line.
Joy Amid the Ruins in 2018
A look back on the year at Dissent.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Jeff Bezos Has Enough!
Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States?
