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Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment

July 2019January 2020 Kressent Pottenger, Dolores Bustamante, Elvira Carvajal and Mily Treviño-Saucedo climate change, community organizations, equality, gender discrimination, health care, immigrant workers, living wage, women workers

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed three women who are members of

Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices

Sex Work is Work

February 2019 Riley Renegade and Kressent Pottenger community organizations, gender discrimination, informal economy, unorganized workers, women workers

A good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over

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The Case for “A Right to Your Job” Campaign

August 2018February 2019 Moshe Marvit and Shaun Richman community organizations, democractic party, employment rights, just cause, Labor, union organizing

A proposal for Advancing Worker Rights and Power

Reverend N. José “Pepe” Wilkinson and other members of the Invest in San Diego Families Coalition at People’s Budget press conference in January 2017, calling on county supervisors to dramatically increase funding for services.

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Going on Offense During Challenging Times

January 2018May 2018 Marilyn Sneiderman and Secky Fascione austerity, collective bargaining, community organizations, corporations, debt, education, finance, Labor, racism, trade unions, Winter 2018

How collective bargaining becomes a revolutionary act.

Gender & Sexual Identity Immigration Precarious Work Working-Class Voices

Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger

January 2018June 2018 Kressent Pottenger community organizations, contingent workers, immigrant workers, Labor, living wage, Winter 2018, women workers, Working-class voices

Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.

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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life

August 2017June 2019 Brandon M. Terry and Jason Lee African Americans, Black Lives Matter, community organizations, deindustrialization, democracy, equality, Fall 2017, Labor, neoliberalism, politics, race, racism, working class

What would it take to find common ground?

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Organizing in a Brave New World

June 2016June 2018 Saqib Bhatti and Stephen Lerner austerity, capitalism, collective bargaining, community organizations, corporations, Fall 2016, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class

Austerity, growing inequality, and the economic and political domination of billionaires, bankers, hedge funds, and giant corporations make the current moment ripe for birthing a movement that can radically transform the country and the world. This is a time of great peril, but also of extraordinary opportunity and—yes—reasons for hope. The last four decades have been characterized by unrelenting attacks on the working class, the weakening of unions and the financialization of capitalism.

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The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age

February 2016June 2018 Adolph Reed community organizations, equality, Labor, living wage, neoliberalism, politics, racism, Spring 2016

The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black

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Black Lives Matter: Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle

December 2015June 2018 Russell Rickford community organizations, Labor, politics, racism, trade unions, Winter 2016

Born as a Twitter hashtag, Black Lives Matter has evolved into a potent alternative to the political paralysis and isolation that racial justice proponents have faced since the election of Obama. In just over two years, the young movement has reinvigorated confrontation politics, giving voice to a popular and righteous rage, establishing a new touchstone of grassroots resistance…