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New podcast! This week on Trippin’ on the Shoestring, cohosts Shelby Lee and Dusty Christensen talk Holyoke politics — everything from policing to the city's history — with At-Large City Councilor Israel Rivera. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts! theshoestring.org/2024/04/11/ep-…

After sitting in for nearly two weeks at College Hall, Smith College Students for Justice in Palestine plan to escalate their tactics to demand divestment from weapons manufacturers and military contractors. By Story Young: theshoestring.org/2024/04/10/shu…

Earlier this year, Massachusetts State Police purchased a cell-site simulator, a mass surveillance technology that captures individual cell phone data in crowded areas. Civil liberties advocates are raising alarms. By Dan Atkinson for BINJ: theshoestring.org/2024/04/05/mas…

Northampton students walked out on Monday in protest of proposed school budget cuts. That evening, the School Committee made little progress on strategizing a way out of the district's 'fiscal cliff.' Shelby Lee reports: theshoestring.org/2024/04/03/nor…

Mass MoCA workers ended their strike this week, making them the latest among a growing cohort of cultural workers to win fairer pay on the picket line. Christopher Marcisz follows up: theshoestring.org/2024/03/29/mas…

I’m SO excited about our latest podcast The Shoestring. We sat down w/ Trader Joe's United to talk independent unions, organizing your workplace, unions in pop culture & more!

Listen here or subscribe to Trippin’ on the Shoestring wherever you get podcasts: theshoestring.org/2024/03/28/ep-…

New podcast episode! In which Dusty Christensen and Shelby are joined by Jamie Edwards and Maeg Yosef of Trader Joe's United, who share the latest updates about the locally-founded independent union's fight to bring workplace democracy to the grocery giant: theshoestring.org/2024/03/28/ep-…

Another dispatch from the discontents of big philanthropy's efforts to 'save local news,' this time with some words from yours truly. Thanks to Alice Dreger, Ph.D. for creating a platform for all of us through Local News Blues: localnewsblues.com/local-news-pub…

Local DJs are asking their audiences to do more than just listen. In our second radio review, brine and Sierra D. Dickey ✍🏻 review three shows that keep the western Mass airwaves lively: theshoestring.org/2024/03/25/the…

Smith College has become the valley's latest hotbed of union activity, with two successful NLRB elections in recent months and a third scheduled for April. Dusty Christensen reports on the student-staff solidarity behind the wave of organizing: theshoestring.org/2024/03/22/not…

After spending the last four years advocating for oversight of the airline industry, Nadia Milleron is seeking her own seat in Congress — one currently held by the powerful Richard Neal. Shelby Lee reports from the campaign kickoff: theshoestring.org/2024/03/20/nad…

Honored to have been interviewed in this article on the #massmocaunionstrike (that is in its second week!), sharing thoughts on museum unionization and the future of the field

After decades, MASS MoCA has proven itself a viable balm for deindustrialization in North Adams. But who will share in that success?

As MASS MoCA workers continue their second week on strike, Christopher Marcisz spoke to them about their fight for living wages: theshoestring.org/2024/03/15/mas…

Workers MASS MoCA are on strike over a wage negotiation stalemate. Christopher Marcisz visited the picket line and dug into the history that brought the storied North Adams museum to this impasse: theshoestring.org/2024/03/15/mas…

Excellent reporting from Christopher Marcisz on the continuing @2110UAW strike at Mass MoCA, looking not just at the museum workers' fight for living wages but at the history of the institution in North Adams. A must-read article over at The Shoestring: theshoestring.org/2024/03/15/mas…

What's happening with the strike at MASS MoCA , and why does it matter? My dive in for The Shoestring
#massmocaunionstrike #MassMoCAUnion #local2110 #artunion #NorthAdams

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An independent investigator recently recommended firing two Northampton police officers over allegations of misconduct during a 2023 OUI stop. But in her last month as chief, that's not what Jody Kasper did. My latest scoop for The Shoestring: theshoestring.org/2024/03/13/inv…