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Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Solidarity! Contact: [email protected]. Substack:
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The largest convening of Amazon workers in the world is happening at the June 2026 Labor Notes conference. Garfield Hylton is an Amazon worker in the UK who built a union with his co-workers through a series of wildcat strikes.
February 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The largest convening of Amazon workers in the world is happening at the June 2026 Labor Notes conference. Garfield Hylton is an Amazon worker in the UK who built a union with his co-workers through a series of wildcat strikes.
Breaking: Educators at bilingual schools in Minneapolis did a sickout today. Federal agents continue to kidnap children. Two more students have been taken from Liam Ramos’s Columbia Heights School. Educators are saying enough! Message below is from the district to parents.
January 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Breaking: Educators at bilingual schools in Minneapolis did a sickout today. Federal agents continue to kidnap children. Two more students have been taken from Liam Ramos’s Columbia Heights School. Educators are saying enough! Message below is from the district to parents.
Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.
AFGE Local 3669 statement:
January 24, 2026 at 8:46 PM
AFGE Local 3669 statement:
It’s a tragedy that a significant chunk of the country hasn’t woken up to the horror of a federal government throwing tear gas at people pushing a walker. The people standing up to these federal agents are regular people fed up with living under a military occupation.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
It’s a tragedy that a significant chunk of the country hasn’t woken up to the horror of a federal government throwing tear gas at people pushing a walker. The people standing up to these federal agents are regular people fed up with living under a military occupation.
Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.
January 24, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.
Federal agents are throwing tear gas canisters at protesters following the shooting of a legal observer. They tackle a man to the ground. You can hear me coughing from the tear gas. A local restaurant took me in until I could recuperate.
January 24, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Federal agents are throwing tear gas canisters at protesters following the shooting of a legal observer. They tackle a man to the ground. You can hear me coughing from the tear gas. A local restaurant took me in until I could recuperate.
SEIU has really stepped up to meet the moment without fanfare.
January 24, 2026 at 3:18 AM
SEIU has really stepped up to meet the moment without fanfare.
Union estimates put the figure at 100,000 people. All I can say is I haven’t seen a mobilization as large as the one today in Minneapolis. Lots of lessons. Will have a story in LN on Monday.
January 24, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Union estimates put the figure at 100,000 people. All I can say is I haven’t seen a mobilization as large as the one today in Minneapolis. Lots of lessons. Will have a story in LN on Monday.
Thousands come out to Minneapolis ICE leave the state. Clergy are arrested in a civil disobedience calling for ICE out of Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Thousands come out to Minneapolis ICE leave the state. Clergy are arrested in a civil disobedience calling for ICE out of Minnesota.
New York City stands in solidarity with Minneapolis!
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 AM
New York City stands in solidarity with Minneapolis!
Momentum continues to build nationwide. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
January 21, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Momentum continues to build nationwide. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
Breaking: churches shut down for Jan. 23
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Breaking: churches shut down for Jan. 23
Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
January 20, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
This is why this country’s working people might finally organize a general strike.
January 15, 2026 at 3:41 AM
This is why this country’s working people might finally organize a general strike.
Mass strike in Minnesota. If you care about working people, democracy, & basic human decency, here’s where the labor movement is drawing the battle lines for dignity, freedom, and justice for all. workdaymagazine.org/we-are-facin...
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Mass strike in Minnesota. If you care about working people, democracy, & basic human decency, here’s where the labor movement is drawing the battle lines for dignity, freedom, and justice for all. workdaymagazine.org/we-are-facin...
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” TJ Sabula said after calling Trump “a pedophile protector. “And today I think I did that.”
January 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” TJ Sabula said after calling Trump “a pedophile protector. “And today I think I did that.”
Lively nurses’ picket line today in NYC
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Lively nurses’ picket line today in NYC
ICE killed Renee Good for the crime of loving her neighbors. May we find the moral nerve to do what’s right. “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.” labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
January 10, 2026 at 6:39 AM
ICE killed Renee Good for the crime of loving her neighbors. May we find the moral nerve to do what’s right. “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.” labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
Hundreds rally in NYC condemning ICE’s state-sanctioned murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and demanding ICE out of New York.
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Hundreds rally in NYC condemning ICE’s state-sanctioned murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and demanding ICE out of New York.
Opposing these attacks is not an endorsement of Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule; it is a matter of democratic states upholding the right to national sovereignty and respect for international law. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Opposing these attacks is not an endorsement of Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule; it is a matter of democratic states upholding the right to national sovereignty and respect for international law. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
U.S. imperialism speaks without pieties to democracy or any liberal pretense whatsoever. It’s a raw billionaire power grab as part of a global imperial rivalry dynamic in the face of economic stagnation. This isn’t the old liberal imperialism of the Bush/Obama years.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
U.S. imperialism speaks without pieties to democracy or any liberal pretense whatsoever. It’s a raw billionaire power grab as part of a global imperial rivalry dynamic in the face of economic stagnation. This isn’t the old liberal imperialism of the Bush/Obama years.
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Zuccotti Park 2026: 40,000 people line up alongside barricades to celebrate NYC’s democratic socialist mayor. For those of us who participated in Occupy Wall Street, today marks a turning point in the millennial left. It’s too early to say what it will mean, but it’s significant.
January 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Zuccotti Park 2026: 40,000 people line up alongside barricades to celebrate NYC’s democratic socialist mayor. For those of us who participated in Occupy Wall Street, today marks a turning point in the millennial left. It’s too early to say what it will mean, but it’s significant.
Long review about three recent books on Big Tech in the poor person’s London Review of Books. Link below!
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Long review about three recent books on Big Tech in the poor person’s London Review of Books. Link below!