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@workingpod
A podcast by, for, and about the working class today.
Hosted by @maximillian_alv & @mel_buer
W/ @inthesetimesmag & @therealnews
Produced by @realJulesTaylor
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What risks do working people face this #LaborDay? Unpack 3 major labor stories, including the rise in construction worker deaths & water break bans, on Laura Flanders & Friends today at 11:30a ET. Check your local listings: worldchannel.org/schedule/2024-β¦ Maximillian Alvarez The Real News ππ€π§π ππ£π πππ€π₯π‘π ππ€ππππ¨π©
This #LaborDay, catch up on three major labor stories: the rise of construction worker deaths in NYC the water break ban in Texas and the far Rightβs plot against workers with Project 2025. Join us today at 11:30 a.m. ET for this episode w/The Real News: bit.ly/3ALDp5
Catch me on PBS this week cohosting Laura Flanders & Friends w/ the great Laura Flanders! In this #LaborDay special, Laura & I talk w/ James Goodwin - jamesgoodwin.bsky.social about Project 2025 & the far-right's plans to drag us into a dystopia defined by nakedly anti-worker, anti-union, pro-corporate tyranny...
Please join Naujawan Support Network this an urgent appeal to organize against our government and industries actions. The ongoing exploitation of immigrant workers and international students. Please share Labour Against the Arms Trade World BEYOND War Canada Labour for Palestine
Don't miss this #LaborDay special episode of Laura Flanders & Friends, also playing on PBS around the country. Laura Flanders & I discuss Republicans' war on workers w/ James Goodwin - jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, from Greg Abbott's "Death Star Bill" in Texas to Project 2025: youtu.be/JlsYzIRSjL0?siβ¦
30 Citations Needed #Labor Episodes: 24. Citations Needed News Brief: "2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc" w/ The Real News's Maximillian Alvarez x.com/citationspod/sβ¦
30 Citations Needed #Labor Episodes: 29. Citations Needed News Brief: "Biden, Congressional Dems Partner with GOP, Media to Discipline Rail Labor" w/ The Real News & ππ€π§π ππ£π πππ€π₯π‘π ππ€ππππ¨π©'s Mel Buer & Maximillian Alvarez x.com/citationspod/sβ¦
π¨ New The Real News: Kamala Harris is clear that Democrats are sticking w/ their hard-right, GOP-adopted policy on the border/immigration. I speak w/ Juanita Martinez, a Dem party official who lives near Eagle Pass, TX, about how big of a mistake that is youtu.be/s0Z0r1TbecU?siβ¦
We know that when workers come together, they can make significant changes to their workplace and achieve great things. That's exactly why the far Right is coming after unions and worker power with Project 2025: bit.ly/3ALDp5m. Ft. Maximillian Alvarez & @j_a_goodwin.
ICYMI: I joined Laura Flanders & Friends and Maximillian Alvarez to discuss what Project 2025 would mean for American workers: "The vision they lay out in Project 2025 -- one way to think about it is it aspires to turn all of America into a company town." PBS pbs.org/video/project-β¦
π¨ BREAKING π¨ Thousands of Uber & Lyft drivers have taken over Lower Manhattan demanding an end to the companiesβ unfair lockout policies, as well as Mayor Eric Adams & NYC Taxi & Limousine Commissionβs complicity in their corporate scams. π’ SHAME ON UBER π’ π’ SHAME ON CITY HALL π’
"Why is a union taking a position on Gaza?" "What have Democrats done for labor?" "How does @uaw square pushing for ceasefire & endorsing Harris?" We brought your questions to Brandon Mancilla & Shawn Fain at the DNC: 1) therealnews.com/uaw-endorses-hβ¦ 2) therealnews.com/exclusive-uawsβ¦
What risks do working people face around the country? Laura Flanders and Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News look at labor stories from New York to Texas, with special reports from @CUNYSLU and The Real News Network: bit.ly/3ALDp5m
Microsoft built data centers near the drought stricken city of ColonβMexico gave it subsidies & just one facility was allocated 25 million liters of groundwater a year. That's ~25% of what the general public gets. My colleague Diana Baptista visited:context.news/ai/video/forgeβ¦
In 1989, the US invaded Panama, bombed poor neighborhoods, dumped bodies in mass gravesβ"the region looked like Gaza today." Do YOU know your own history? Listen to this incredible season-concluding episode of Under the Shadow Michael Fox The Real News NACLA Report therealnews.com/panama-us-invaβ¦
So damn proud of Brandi Morin & Geordie, whose documentary Killer Water, on the Alberta Tar Sands industry's poisoning of Indigenous people & the planet, is one of the most powerful pieces The Real News has been honored to produceβin collab w/ Ricochet Media IndigiNews
KILLER WATER (documentary) While Canada prospers off the tar sands industry, Indigenous communities downstream are in the grips of its toxic impact... Brandi Morin Geordie The Real News IndigiNews Ricochet Media therealnews.com/killer-water-tβ¦
In news, our Steve Mellon covers a candlelight vigil by more nurses who are ready to strike for a fair contract as well as for patients across Pennsylvania. Says Corey O'Connor, "We are 20,000 people short." unionprogress.com/2024/09/06/theβ¦