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One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world. Now, Columbia has become ground zero for the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on higher education, academic freedom, and the right to free speech and free assembly—all under the McCarthyist guise of rooting out “anti-semitism.” From Trump’s threats to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts with Columbia to the abduction of international students like Mahmoud Khalil by ICE agents, to the university’s firing and expulsion of Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers union president Grant Miner, “a tremendous chilling effect” has gripped Columbia’s campus community. In this urgent episode of Working People, we speak with: Caitlin Liss, a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University and a member of Student Workers of Columbia-UAW (SWC); and Allie Wong, a PhD student at the Columbia Journalism School and a SWC member who was arrested and beaten by police during the second raid on the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia on April 30, 2024.
Additional links/info:
- Student Workers of Columbia-UAW Local 2710 website
- April 17: Day of Action to Defend Higher Ed website
- Mahmoud Khalil statement from ICE detention: “My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner”
- Allie Wong, The Intercept, “This is not about antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump dismantling the American dream“
- Grant Miner, The Nation, “Columbia expelled me for my palestine activism, but I won’t be silenced”
- Jonah E. Bromwich & Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times, “Columbia student hunted by ICE sues to prevent deportation”
- AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: “Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations”
- Alan Blinder, The New York Times, “Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?”
- Oliver Laughland, The Guardian, “‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish”
- Alice Speri, The Guardian, “‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors”
- Annie Ma, Makiya Seminera, & Christopher L. Keller, Associated Press, “Visa cancellations sow panic for international students, with hundreds fearing deportation”
- Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities”
- Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal”
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One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world. Now, Columbia has become ground zero for the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on higher education, academic freedom, and the right to free speech and free assembly—all under the McCarthyist guise of rooting out “anti-semitism.” From Trump’s threats to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts with Columbia to the abduction of international students like Mahmoud Khalil by ICE agents, to the university’s firing and expulsion of Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers union president Grant Miner, “a tremendous chilling effect” has gripped Columbia’s campus community. In this urgent episode of Working People, we speak with: Caitlin Liss, a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University and a member of Student Workers of Columbia-UAW (SWC); and Allie Wong, a PhD student at the Columbia Journalism School and a SWC member who was arrested and beaten by police during the second raid on the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia on April 30, 2024.
Additional links/info:
- Student Workers of Columbia-UAW Local 2710 website
- April 17: Day of Action to Defend Higher Ed website
- Mahmoud Khalil statement from ICE detention: “My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner”
- Allie Wong, The Intercept, “This is not about antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump dismantling the American dream“
- Grant Miner, The Nation, “Columbia expelled me for my palestine activism, but I won’t be silenced”
- Jonah E. Bromwich & Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times, “Columbia student hunted by ICE sues to prevent deportation”
- AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: “Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations”
- Alan Blinder, The New York Times, “Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?”
- Oliver Laughland, The Guardian, “‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish”
- Alice Speri, The Guardian, “‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors”
- Annie Ma, Makiya Seminera, & Christopher L. Keller, Associated Press, “Visa cancellations sow panic for international students, with hundreds fearing deportation”
- Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities”
- Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal”
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- Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
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- The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page
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1 ‘Like being tortured’: Texas residents living next to bitcoin mine are getting sick and being ignored 1:03:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWhile state officials and legislators have positioned Texas to be “the bitcoin mining capital of the world,” in small towns like Granbury, working-class residents living next to giant, loud, environmentally destructive data centers are the ones paying the price for Texas’s crypto boom. “None of us are sleeping,” Cheryl Shadden, a Granbury resident who lives across the street from a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining data center owned by Marathon Digital, tells TRNN. “We can't get rid of this alien invasion in our homes…This is like being a prisoner of war. It's like being tortured with loud sounds and bright lights and being sleep deprived.”In this episode of Working People , we dive deeper into the reality of living next to crypto mining data centers like the one in Granbury, the unseen threats they pose to human and nonhuman life, and what residents in Granbury are doing to fight back. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with: Cheryl Shadden, a registered nurse anesthetist and resident of Granbury, who lives right next to the site of the Marathon bitcoin mining operation; Dr. Shannon Wolf, Precinct Chair in Hood County, who lives about 3 miles from the bitcoin mine; and Nannette Samuelson, County Commissioner for Precinct 2 in Hood County.Additional links/info: Protect Hood County website Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ A bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say ” Andrew R. Chow, TIME , “ ‘We’re living in a nightmare:’ Inside the health crisis of a Texas bitcoin town ” Andrew R. Chow, TIME , “ Noisy neighbor: Bitcoin's hidden health cost ” (Video Report) Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “ TRNN wins 2025 Izzy Award for coverage of East Palestine, OH, trainwreck & chemical disaster ” Keaton Peters, Inside Climate News , “ Texas leaders worry that bitcoin mines threaten to crash the state power grid ” NBC News , “ Inside the Texas bitcoin mine reportedly making residents sick ” James Pollard, The Texas Tribune , “ Texas Republicans want to make the state the center of the cryptocurrency universe ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 FBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan 58:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe Trump administration continues to escalate its authoritarian assault on higher education, free speech, and political dissent—and university administrators and state government officials are willingly aiding that assault. On the morning of April 23, at the direction of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, raided the homes of multiple student organizers connected to Palestine solidarity protests at the University of Michigan. “According to the group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), agents seized the students’ electronics and a number of personal items,” Michael Arria reports at Mondoweiss . “Four individuals were detained, but eventually released.” In this urgent episode of Working People , we speak with a panel of graduate student workers from the University of Michigan and Columbia University about how they and their unions are fighting back against ICE abductions, FBI raids, and top-down political repression, all while trying to carry on with their day-to-day work. Panelists include: Lavinia, a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information and an officer in the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO); Ember McCoy, a PhD candidate in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and a rank-and-file member of GEO and the TAHRIR Coalition; Jessie Rubin, a PhD student in the School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and a rank-and-file member of Student Workers of Columbia (SWC); and Conlan Olson, a PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia and a member of the SWC bargaining committee. Additional links/info: Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), University of Michigan website , Instagram , Facebook page , and X page Student Workers of Columbia-UAW Local 2710 website , Instagram , Facebook page , and X page TAHRIR Coalition UMich X page Legal Fund of Michigan Students for Palestine GEO Worker Solidarity Fund GEO Press Release: FBI and police raid homes of pro-Palestine activists, including a GEO member Mahmoud Khalil statement from ICE detention: “ My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner ” Allie Wong, The Intercept , “ This is not about antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump dismantling the American dream “ Grant Miner, The Nation , “ Columbia expelled me for my palestine activism, but I won’t be silenced ” Michael Arria, Mondoweiss , “ FBI and police raid homes of Palestine activists in Michigan ” Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette , “ Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration ” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “ ‘Worse’ than McCarthyism: Trump’s war on higher education, free speech, and political dissent ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘A tremendous chilling effect’: Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 A bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say 50:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedI would like to see Texas become the center of the universe for bitcoin and crypto,” US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in 2021. In 2024, Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” But in small towns like Granbury, TX, about an hour southwest of Fort Worth, residents are the ones paying the price for Texas’ crypto boom. Granbury’s 300-megawatt bitcoin mine, which is owned by Marathon Digital, a Florida-based cryptocurrency company, uses a mix of liquid immersion and industrial fans to prevent over 20,000 computers from overheating. Many residents say that it’s the constant sound from those fans that has made life increasingly unbearable in their small town—and that their concerns are going ignored by the company and government officials. In this episode of Working People , we speak with four residents of Granbury living near the Marathon bitcoin mine: Danny Lakey, Karen Pearson, Nick Browning, and Virginia Browning. Additional links/info: Protect Hood County website Andrew R. Chow, TIME , “ ‘We’re living in a nightmare:’ Inside the health crisis of a Texas bitcoin town ” Andrew R. Chow, TIME , “ Noisy neighbor: Bitcoin’s hidden health cost ” (Video Report) Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “ TRNN wins 2025 Izzy Award for coverage of East Palestine, OH, trainwreck & chemical disaster ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘I had to move away from everything that I ever had’: Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind ” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “ ‘This is murder!’: Industrially poisoned South Baltimore residents march on state capitol, demand help from Gov. Moore ” Maximillian Alvarez, Steve Mellon, & Mike Balonek, The Real News Network, “ Trainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH (DOCUMENTARY) ” Keaton Peters, Inside Climate News , “ Texas leaders worry that bitcoin mines threaten to crash the state power grid ” NBC News , “ Inside the Texas bitcoin mine reportedly making residents sick ” James Pollard, The Texas Tribune , “ Texas Republicans want to make the state the center of the cryptocurrency universe ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 ‘A tremendous chilling effect’: Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks 58:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedOne year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world. Now, Columbia has become ground zero for the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on higher education, academic freedom, and the right to free speech and free assembly—all under the McCarthyist guise of rooting out “anti-semitism.” From Trump’s threats to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts with Columbia to the abduction of international students like Mahmoud Khalil by ICE agents, to the university’s firing and expulsion of Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers union president Grant Miner, “a tremendous chilling effect” has gripped Columbia’s campus community. In this urgent episode of Working People , we speak with: Caitlin Liss, a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University and a member of Student Workers of Columbia-UAW (SWC); and Allie Wong, a PhD student at the Columbia Journalism School and a SWC member who was arrested and beaten by police during the second raid on the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia on April 30, 2024. Additional links/info: Student Workers of Columbia-UAW Local 2710 website April 17: Day of Action to Defend Higher Ed website Mahmoud Khalil statement from ICE detention: “ My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner ” Allie Wong, The Intercept , “ This is not about antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump dismantling the American dream “ Grant Miner, The Nation , “ Columbia expelled me for my palestine activism, but I won’t be silenced ” Jonah E. Bromwich & Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times , “ Columbia student hunted by ICE sues to prevent deportation ” AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: “ Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations ” Alan Blinder, The New York Times , “ Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why? ” Oliver Laughland, The Guardian , “ ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish ” Alice Speri, The Guardian , “ ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors ” Annie Ma, Makiya Seminera, & Christopher L. Keller, Associated Press, “ Visa cancellations sow panic for international students, with hundreds fearing deportation ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 ‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities 1:00:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedInternational students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today’s urgent episode of Working People , we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration’s all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Todd Wolfson , President of the American Association of University Professors, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center ; and Chenjerai Kumanyika , Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, AAUP Council Member, and Peabody-award winning host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD . Additional links/info: April 17: Day of Action to Defend Higher Ed website American Association of University Professors (AAUP) website Federal Unionists Network website AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: “ Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations ” Alan Blinder, The New York Times , “ Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why? ” Oliver Laughland, The Guardian , “ ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish ” Alice Speri, The Guardian , “ ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors ” Joy Connolly, Chronicle Review , “ Colleges must stand together to resist Trump ” Collin Binkley, Associated Press, “ More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump’s anti-DEI campaign ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 “Kill the Cuts”: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal 34:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedOn Tuesday, April 8, unions, unionized federal workers, and their supporters around the country mobilized for a national “Kill the Cuts” day of action to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to life-saving research, healthcare, and education programs. As organizers stated on the Kill The Cuts website, "By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. These cuts are dangerous to our health, and dangerous to our economy. On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and life-saving research." In this on-the-ground edition of Working People , we take you to the front lines of the Kill the Cuts rally that took place in Washington DC, and we speak with workers and union representatives whose lives and work have already been affected by these cuts.Speakers include: Margaret Cook, Vice President of the Public, Healthcare, and Education Workers sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA); Matt Brown, Recording Secretary of NIH Fellows United (United Auto Workers Local 2750); Rakshita Balaji, a post-baccalaureate researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Amanda Dykema, shop steward for American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1072 at the University of Maryland, College Park.Additional links/info: Kill the Cuts website NIH Fellows United website Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ What’s really behind Trump’s war on federal unions? ” Jocelyn Kaiser, Science , “ NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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Last week, President Trump escalated his administration's war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions across the government. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 government employees, has sued the Trump administration over the executive order.In response to these intensifying assaults on federal workers, agencies, and critical programs like Social Security, unions, social justice and community organizations, veterans groups, and people of conscience will be participating in protest actions in locales across the US on Saturday, April 5. In this episode, we speak with James Jones, a maintenance mechanic with the National Park Service, a veteran, and a member of the Federal Unionists Network, to get a firsthand account of the Trump administration's attacks on federal workers, agencies, and the people who depend on their services.Additional links/info: Federal Unionists Network website Indivisible website “Hands Off!” National Day of Action (April 5) website Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes , “ Trump Goes Nuclear on the Federal Workforce ” Tyler Pager, The New York Times , “ Trump Moves to End Union Protections Across Broad Swath of Government ” Daniel Weissner, Reuters, “ Union Sues to Block Trump from Ending Collective Bargaining for Many federal workers ” Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, “ Curious How Trump’s Cost Cutting Could Affect Your National Park Visit? You Might Not Get a Straight Answer ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘It’s not Elon versus government, it’s Elon versus everyone’: A dire warning from fired federal workers ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Uprising of the 20,000 56:16
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAs we’ve mentioned many times before on the show, movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping into our own labor history provides us with a blueprint for action in today’s turbulent world. On March 25th, 1911, a fire began in the scrap bins under a cutter’s table on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Within minutes, the entire floor was engulfed in flames, spreading to the ninth floor and 10th floors–where 200+ workers were just finishing up to go home for the night. By the time workers were alerted to the conflagration, options for escaping the fire were few. By the time the fire was brought under control, 146 workers were dead. New York City saw sweeping reforms in the aftermath of the fire, catapulting some pro-reform lobbyists like Francis Perkins all the way to the highest halls of government with the introduction of the New Deal 20 years later. Near the 114th anniversary of this tragedy, Mel sat down with labor historian Dr. Erik Loomis, professor at the University of Rhode Island and author of his forthcoming book, “Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice” to talk about the struggle for better working conditions in the garment industry in New York City, the fire itself and the reforms enacted afterwards, and why it’s important to learn from our own labor history in this current moment. Additional links/info: Cornell University - ILR School: Remembering the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire Dr. Erik Loomis on Bluesky More information about Dr. Loomis’s forthcoming book, “Organizing America” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Mel Buer Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 Privatize USPS? Mail carriers are fighting for a better idea 53:09
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week, we’re taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-long contract negotiation with the US Postal Service. In our episode today, I’m sitting down with Melissa Rakestraw, member of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 825 in Chicago, IL, to discuss the state of negotiations with our nation’s letter carriers, the unprecedented rejection of the recent Tentative Agreement and what happens next, and what would happen if the US Postal Service was privatized. As a short editorial note before we begin, the interest arbitration process between USPS and the Letter Carriers began on March 17th, with Dennis R. Nolan set as the neutral arbitrator. This episode was recorded at the end of February, before those dates had been set. Postal workers are also set to hit the streets this weekend–“Fight Like Hell!” rallies are scheduled for March 23 across the country to protest the proposed privatization of the US Postal Service. Additional links/info: March 13, 2025: NALC statement on DeJoy’s agreement with DOGE “Fight like hell! Say ‘Hell No!’ to a privatized USPS!” - Find a Rally Near You Joe Demanuelle-Hall: “Federal Workers Organize Against Billionaire Power Grab” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Mel Buer Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 Show us the ropes: How Touchstone Climbing Gym workers unionized five locations 51:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week, we’re staying in Southern California, where the workers of Touchstone Climbing Gym in Los Angeles have been negotiating their first contract with their employer. Touchstone Climbing, a regional climbing gym with over a dozen locations in California, experienced a wave of unionization in its Los Angeles locations early last year. The successful campaign with Workers United created a wall-to-wall union at each of the company’s five locations in the Los Angeles area. Members of the LA-based gym are often themselves union members, and the response from the climbing community has been overwhelmingly positive. However, workers have been navigating a frustrating negotiation in order to reach an agreement on a first contract. Chief among workers’ demands is better communications, higher safety standards, and better pay. With me today to discuss their unionization, and their negotiations are Ryan Barkauskas, PT desk staff at The Post in Pasadena and Jess Kim, Former Desk Staff at the Post in Pasadena, now FT Workers United organizer. Additional links/info: Touchstone Workers United Instagram Climbing Business Journal - “Touchstone Workers United Win Union Election - First Southern California Climbing Gyms to Unionize” Eaton Fire Gofundme for Sam, 10+ year Yoga Instructor Eaton Fire Gofundme for Martell, Front Desk Worker at The Post in Pasadena Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Mel Buer Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 ‘It’s Elon versus everyone’: A dire warning from fired federal workers (w/ Cat Farman, Jasmine McAllister, & Will Munger) 55:47
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this urgent episode of Working People , we focus on the Trump-Musk administration’s all-out assault on federal workers and its takeover and reordering of our entire system of government. “At least 20,000 federal workers have so far been fired by the Trump administration,” Ed Pilkington and Chris Stein report in The Guardian , “most of them recent hires on probationary periods who lack employment protections. In addition, the White House claims that more than 75,000 employees have accepted its offer of deferred resignations. The purge has prompted speculation that Trump is engaging in one of the biggest job cutting rounds in US history, which could have a powerful knock-on effect on the American economy.” In today’s episode, we take you to the front lines of struggle and hear directly from three federal workers about what is happening inside the federal government, why it concerns all of us, and how federal workers and concerned citizens of all stripes are fighting back. Panelists include: Cat Farman, president of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Union, Local 335 of the National Treasury Employees Union; Jasmine McAllister, a rank-and-file CFPB Union member and data scientist who was illegally fired two weeks ago; and Will Munger, a rangeland scientist who works across the intermountain west and who, until this month, served as a postdoctoral researcher with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. Additional links/info: CFPB Union website , Federal Unionists Network website , Bluesky page, and Instagram 5Calls.Org website Ed Pilkington & Chris Stein, The Guardian , “ US personnel office walks back email ultimatum from Musk to workers ” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “ Elon Musk is making technofascism a reality before our eyes ” Democracy Now! , “ ‘Grand Theft Government’: Federal workers send SOS over Musk’s DOGE, mass firings & service cuts ” Emily Anthes & Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times , “ Mass federal firings may imperil crops, cattle and pets ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind (w/ Ashley McCollom, Hannah Loyd, & Kristina Baehr) 57:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWe kick off the new season of Working People with another crucial installment of our ongoing series where we speak with the people living, working, and fighting for justice in America’s “sacrifice zones.” In this episode, cohost Maximillian Alvarez speaks with a panel of guests about the ongoing public health crises in East Palestine, OH, where a Norfolk Southern train derailment in Feb. 2023 changed residents’ lives forever, and in Conyers, GA, where residents continue to deal with the toxic fallout of a chemical fire that broke out in Sept. 2024 at a facility owned by pool chemical company BioLab. Panelists include: Ashley McCollom, a displaced resident of East Palestine; Hannah Loyd, a displaced resident of Conyers; and Kristina Baehr, a community safety lawyer with Just Well Law. Additional links/info: Ashley’s Facebook page Ashley's GoFundMe page Hannah’s Facebook page Just Well Law website Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘Everytime we come back, we all get sick’: GA residents affected by September BioLab fire are still going through hell ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ Trainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH (DOCUMENTARY) ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ One year later, East Palestine residents want Norfolk-Southern held accountable ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ “Let’s unite!”: Poisoned residents of America’s sacrifice zones are banding together ” Steve Mellon, Pittsburgh Union Progress , “ Vance visit on derailment’s second anniversary leaves residents wondering, ‘Who has our backs?’ ” Grace Gibson, The Georgetown Environmental Law Review , “ Hawaiʻi’s Red Hill Water Crisis Isn’t Over ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “ Working People ” Theme Song Studio Production: David Hebden Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 Democracy dies, first, in the workplace (w/ Hamilton Nolan & Sara Nelson) 1:18:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like Liked“I did not start out as a writer interested in organized labor,” Hamilton Nolan writes in The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor; “I started out as a writer interested in why America was so fucked up. Why did we have such gargantuan levels of inequality? Why were thousands of homeless people living in the streets of cities where billionaires frolicked in penthouses? Why was it that certain classes of people worked hard their entire lives and stayed poor, just as their parents had been, and just as their children seemed doomed to be? Even while labor unions had fallen almost completely out of the public mind, it turned out that they were central to all our most fundamental problems.” In this live episode of Working People, recorded at Red Emma’s cooperative bookstore, cafe, and community events space in Baltimore on Dec. 6, 2024, Max speaks with Nolan about his new book, what the ongoing war on workers’ rights and unions tells us about the “fucked up” society we’re living in, and what lessons labor can teach us now about how to fight and win, even in the darkest of times. Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL–CIO, also makes a special guest appearance in the second half of the episode. Additional links/info below… Hamilton’s website , Facebook page, and X page Hamilton Nolan, Hachette Books, The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Red Emma’s website , Facebook page, and Instagram David Dayen, In These Times, “ Meet the militant flight attendant leader who threatened a strike—and helped stop Trump’s shutdown ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Max Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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1 Sick Georgia residents have been abandoned after toxic BioLab fire (w/ Hannah Loyd, Christina O'Connor, & Jeramie Julian) 1:17:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like Liked“In late September,” Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, “a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for weeks and prompting national news coverage. The smoke has cleared, but the anger has not dissipated in Conyers, the city of 20,000 where the fire occurred, and in surrounding areas... Smoke from the blaze left some residents with breathing difficulties, headaches, dizziness and skin rashes in the days that followed, along with a deepening worry about their community’s safety... The fire was pool-chemical company BioLab’s fourth in the last two decades, a track record that has created what one observer described as “generational rage” among residents.” In this installment of our ongoing series Sacrificed—where we speak to people living, working, and fighting for justice in America’s “sacrifice zones”—we speak with Hannah Loyd, Christina O'Connor, and Jeramie Julian: three residents who live near, and have been directly affected by, the September fire at the Conyers BioLab facility. Additional links/info below… Christina’s Facebook page and TikTok Hannah’s Facebook page Conyers, GA, Facebook group: Helping Our Health Timothy Pratt, Capital & Main, “ Chemical fire at Atlanta-area plant sparks local movement against BioLab ” Holly Yan, CNN, “ Weeks after a chemical plant inferno, nearby residents say they’re suffering prolonged illnesses and financial upheaval ” Status Coup News, “ POISONED Georgians DEMAND toxic chemical plant close after chlorine gas inferno ” Joi Dukes, FOX 5 Atlanta, “ EPA whistleblower on BioLab debris testing: 'You can’t find what you don’t look for' ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ “Let’s unite!”: Poisoned residents of America’s sacrifice zones are banding together ” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “ Trainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH (DOCUMENTARY) ” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “ ‘Towns are gone’: In Helene-devastated Asheville, NC, volunteers battle misinformation and ‘apocalyptic’ wreckage ” Maximillian Alvarez, In These Times / The Real News Network, “ Scenes from a sacrifice zone: South Baltimore residents fight back against industrial pollution ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song…
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1 What working people's struggles to survive the Great Depression can teach us today (w/ Dana Frank) 1:16:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like Liked“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed,” historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? “By 1933 a third of all those who’d had jobs were unemployed; another third were scraping by with lesser work. Racism, far from collapsing, festered and metastasized as insecurity rippled through the country, pushing people of color even further downward... As we face our own crises today—a precarious economy, outrageous inequality and poverty, growing racism, climate change—and lie awake at night, facing our own fears, these stories from the Great Depression offer us new and often surprising insights into our own time, our own choices.” In this live episode of Working People, recorded at Red Emma’s cooperative bookstore, cafe, and community events space in Baltimore, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Frank about her new book and what taking a fresh look at poor and working people’s struggles in the dark 1930s can teach us about navigating our own perilous moment in history. Additional links/info below… Dana Frank, Beacon Press, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times Dana Frank website Red Emma’s website , Facebook page, and Instagram Dana Frank, The Los Angeles Times, “ Trump Says He’ll Expel a Million Immigrants. Believe Him–It Happened Before ” Dana Frank, History News Network, “ Ohio’s Little-Known Fascist Member of Congress ” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website , Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website , Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website , YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Max Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor…
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