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Working People

Oct 27, 2019

Our Working People Halloween special! We talk with Jon and Ash from The Horror Vanguard podcast about horror, the working class, and how there's nothing scarier than capitalism...

 

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Oct 24, 2019

Part I of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers’ sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) and secure equal rights for all workers (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance). 

 

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Oct 22, 2019

In Part I of our two-part episode on workers in the Maine logging industry, we chat with Mark Hardison, a longtime woodcutter from Eastern Maine, near the town of Ellsworth. We talk about Mark's life, getting involved in the woods industry, and about the ways that the industry has changed over the years. We also...


Oct 17, 2019

We talk with John Jayne, a GM worker in Philadelphia and member of UAW Local 2177, about the month-long UAW strike and the new tentative contract agreement. 

 

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Oct 13, 2019

We talk with Darrow, office coordinator for Portland State University’s Women, Sexuality, & Gender Studies Department and member organizer for SEIU Local 503. We talk about Darrow’s involvement in the union and about the planned statewide strike that was narrowly averted soon after we recorded this episode. But we...