What’s Working
Cover art by Ricardo Levins Morales
Volume: 27
Number: 1
Worker Justice Is Global Justice With the recent devastation in Haiti, unions have mobilized their members to provide rescue and relief. Labor blog Working In These Times reports that the International Association of Fire Fighters sent rescue teams with high-tech scanners and that National Nurses United sent more than 1,500 volunteer nurses. Unfortunately, the U.S….
From WagingNonviolence.org WagingNonviolence.org runs a list of underreported stories every day called “experiments with truth,” after the phrase by Gandhi. The following are some of the best experiments from the last few months having to do with the labor movement. Dozens of children from a Jewish Sunday school marched from Boston Common to the Hyatt…
WRL Track Club Runs in Hartford The War Resisters League Track Club relaunched in October with the Hartford Marathon. Three WRL members participated: Patrick Sheehan-Gaumer ran the full 26-plus miles, and Mike Levinson and Frida Berrigan participated in the half marathon (Mike walking, Frida running). The Run for Peace raised more than $2,500 for WRL…
The Socorro Peace Vigil, Christmas 2007. Photo by James Durand. Socorro has about 9,000 people and is the market town for about 20,000. There’s a science-oriented university, New Mexico Tech, with a cosmopolitan faculty and students so focused on their studies that many of them are politically inert. There are old Hispanic families from long…
NOT SO CERTAIN By Calvin Rey Moen Death and Taxes Produced by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee 2010, 30 minutes, $10–$20 sliding scale What if we all stopped paying taxes? That’s the question Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings pose in the first few minutes of this engaging short film by the National War…
Bold, bright images with a clear message and a clean design are the hallmark of artist and illustrator Luba Lukova, who edited this year’s WRL Peace Calendar. She chose the 53 posters that appear in the calendar from about 300 posters from all over the world. She looked for images that were “easily accessible, had…
Outsiders Save the Earth The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear By Douglas Bevington Island Press, 2009, 244 pages, $35.00 A hat is passed around at a meeting of local activists in eastern Tennessee; $29 is raised to fund their environmental campaign. A disgusted Fish and Game employee…
Over the past few decades, the decline of industry has meant lower wages and uncertain employment for a growing number of U.S. workers. Yet communities across the country are being revived by a growing job market in clean energy and energy efficiency. These green-collar jobs offer simultaneous solutions to several of the nation’s most…
In October 2003, prior to its founding assembly, a delegation from U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) went to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi trade unionists and tour union workplaces—the first postwar international labor delegation to go to Iraq. Delegates learned that unions have had an important history in 20th-century Iraq, starting with the…
By Chris Brandt This poem’s job is to stop war. There. Go and do it, little poem. Now that it’s gone, dear reader, heading for hot spots and capitals around the world, we can agree I’ve given the poem an impossible job. Ridiculous. A poem – all the world’s poems – stop war? Which of…
“When I was in high school, recruiters seemed to be everywhere: at the school, calling at home, at the mall. I was raised by a single mom and had a twin sister looking at college, too, and I didn’t know what my options were to pay for college and to find work,” says Terri…
Workers from the BAUEN Hotel Cooperative march in front of the Argentine congress to demand a national expropriation law. Photo by Marie Trigona. As unemployment figures creep up past 10 percent in the United States and Europe, workers are scrambling to find solutions to joblessness. Around the world, the phenomenon of worker occupations and…
After 18 days of barricading themselves inside Vestas Windsystems on the Isle of Wight, six wind turbine workers protesting the factory’s closure were finally forced to end their occupation. Hundreds of supporters stood outside the factory gates on August 7, watching as the court-ordered bailiffs arrived with a warrant to repossess the property. Refusing to…
A year has passed since what Illinois Congressmember Luis Gutierrez described as “a Chicago Christmas Carol”: the factory occupation by 250 workers at Republic Windows and Doors on Goose Island in the Chicago River, an action that captured international attention and provided a stirring victory for workers during a season otherwise characterized by economic pain,…
“We are dying,” wrote a group of 12th-century B.C.E. workers to their bosses, in a collective plea for their overdue pay. When they got no response, they committed history’s first known act of nonviolent resistance. At the time, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt were having the great tombs built for themselves near their capital at…
The Gaza Freedom March in Cairo More than 1,000 people from 40-plus countries gathered in Cairo just after Christmas, headed for a December 31 march in Gaza to commemorate Israel’s attack on Gaza in December of 2008 and to demand an end to the blockade of the besieged territory. Only a handful—80-odd—reached Gaza. The rest,…
PM Press It would take a particularly savvy “insider” to connect the PM Press ad on page 16 of the fall 2009 issue (which lists book titles but no authors) with the article on page 8 (by Vikki Law, author of one of those advertised books), or the interview on page 24 (of Linda Thurston,…
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