Podcasts about no shortcuts organizing

Our first installment of our two-week showcase of listener favorites features the late great labor organizer Jane McAlevey. In this July 29, 2017 interview, Jane charts out a course for claiming power in the Trump era - around the bought-off electoral system captured by the rich, and beyond the short-term battles of the online left - towards true power for the American worker, and explains why that path starts with class conciousness and a willingness to battle capital at the point of production. Jane is author of: Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso, 2012): https://janemcalevey.com/book/raising-expectations-and-raising-hell-my-decade-fighting-for-the-labor-movement/ No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016): https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/ A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco Press, 2020): https://janemcalevey.com/book/a-collective-bargain-unions-organizing-and-the-fight-for-democracy/ Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023): https://janemcalevey.com/book/rules-to-win-by-power-and-participation-in-union-negotiations/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Jane McAlevey was an exceptional organizer and thinker, and her death on July 7th leaves a gaping hole for the left. She dedicated her life to building working class power, in the trenches of the environmental and labor movements and as a radical scholar. McAlevey believed that the left and labor movement abandoned deep organizing in the 1970s, in favor of shallow mobilization and even shallower advocacy. But she insisted that the tide could be turned. Resources: Jane F. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Oxford University Press, 2016 Who Rules America? The post Jane McAlevey on How to Win appeared first on KPFA.

How much can a president do to shepherd the economy? The question has bedevilled the inhabitants of the White House since the office came into being, and it has material relevance for elections, democracy, social policy, and international relations. Mark Zachary Taylor joins the show to explain his findings on this topic, and to discuss his latest book Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times. Essential Reading:Mark Zachary Taylor, Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age (2023).Recommended Reading:Edward O. Frantz (ed.), A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881 (2014).Mark Wahlgren Summers, Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics (2005).Jane McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (2020). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kristen and Kyla celebrate May Day with special guest Emily Leedham, Prairie Reporter for Press Progress, and editor of Shift Work, a weekly newsletter round-up of national labour news, strikes, lockouts and new organizing across Canada. Some of the topics covered in this episode include the current state of labour and unions in Canada, discussing how companies employ anti-union tactics (calling out Uber and Amazon specifically), how COVID has and will continue to affect labour in Canada, how the current state of journalism hurts the labour movement, and how workers can become empowered to protect themselves in a world that is becoming increasingly difficult to work in. Emily recommends the Organizing For Power Course, as well as Jane McAlevey's No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age and Eric Blanc's Red State Revolt to learn more! Leave us a voicemail! https://podinbox.com/pullback Website: https://www.pullback.org/episode-notes/episode83 Harbinger Media Network: https://harbingermedianetwork.com/ Press Progress: https://pressprogress.ca/ Shift Work: https://pressprogress.ca/shiftwork/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PullbackPodcast  Emily Leedham on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emily_leedham_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pullbackpodcast/?igshid=i57wwo16tjko  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PullbackPodcast/  Emily recommends! https://pressprogress.ca/amazons-anti-union-tactics-around-the-world-show-what-canadian-warehouse-workers-are-up-against/ https://janemcalevey.com/speaking-engagement/organizing-for-power-the-core-fundamentals/2022-05-10/ https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/ https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.

A recording of a panel held by DSA San Francisco's Labor Organizing Committee discussing the work of Jane McAlevey, author of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" Take the labor census at https://dsasf.org/census to get involved in our Labor Circles priority campaign!

If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. In this Overtime Episode Lina goes over some of the legacy of Saul Alinsky, who is often credited with creating the organizing model that is still used by many people and unions today. All quotes from this episode are from the book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey. We encourage anyone who wants to get a better understanding of how to do labor organizing to read this book. Look out for the sequel to this episode were we will go over the effective alternative to this organizing model. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter

This series will cover a range of issues concerning political organizing. In this episode, Vince Emanuele examines the introduction to Jane McAlevey's book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. In this segment, Vince discusses the fundamental difference between organizing in a structure-based setting vs. a self-selected setting. Structure-based organizing includes the workplace, houses of worship, neighborhoods, and precincts (constituencies bounded and measurable). Self-selected organizing includes groups like Black Lives Matter, Democratic Socialists of America, and Occupy Wall Street (constituencies who already self-identify and are bound by no measurable structure). Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/ Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

This series will cover a range of issues concerning political organizing. In this episode, Vince Emanuele examines the introduction to Jane McAlevey's book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. In this segment, Vince talks about the fundamental differences between three approaches to politics: Advocacy, Mobilizing, and Organizing. This is the sort of knowledge activists and organizers should learn from Day One. The fact that we're not is a sign of the times and what must change. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA ​ Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele ​ Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/ ​ Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/? ​... #PARCMedia​ is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

This series will cover a range of issues concerning political organizing. In this episode, Vince Emanuele examines the introduction to Jane McAlevey's book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. In this segment, Vince talks about the fundamental differences between three approaches to politics: Advocacy, Mobilizing, and Organizing. This is the sort of knowledge activists and organizers should learn from Day One. The fact that we're not is a sign of the times and what must change. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/ Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

This series will cover a range of issues concerning political organizing. In this episode, Vince Emanuele examines the introduction to Jane McAlevey's book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. Vince talks about the false dichotomy between social movements and unions, McAlevey's hypothesis (Mobilizing vs. Organizing), Theory of Power, and why Power Structure Analyses play a crucial role in developing not only strategies to win, but also empowered ordinary people capable of developing winning strategies. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/ Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Join in on the fun Discord conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave We're reading books, sharing articles, and watching movies via discord with our patreon subscribers. We've finished No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey! Each chapter has been discussed at length in our series Comrades Read Together, and three veteran labor organizers join us for this final conversation. Michael Marchmann, staff organizer for GTFF 3544, Sarah Pishioneri, staff organizer for CGE 6069, and Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, chat with Laborwave Radio about the difference between "pretend power" and "real power." Our conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself." How do we, as leftist organizers, connect disparate movement agents during times of crisis to move from having history enacted upon the working class to the working class enacting history? With the looming pandemic providing pathways towards multiple futures, what are the necessary steps and vision we need to push toward the future we wish to make? All this and more in our final episode of Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts! Music from In The Red Records: Ty Segall- Class War

Dr. Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, political scientist, and editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/) and Jane McAlevey (https://twitter.com/rsgexp), organizer, author, and scholar join the show to talk about neoliberalism, identity politics, labor, the election, what happened, what's happening, and what needs to happen. Anders Lee guest co-hosts!(https://twitter.com/andersleehere). Adolph Reed writes about and works around racial and economic inequality; American and African-American politics and political thought; urban politics, and American political development. Jane McAlevey (https://janemcalevey.com/) is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley's Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor & Employment Relations. Her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, argues that despite, if not because of, the withering attacks on working people from the US Supreme Court, conservative state and local governments, and the corporate class, the survival of American democracy depends on rebuilding unions. Her first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. Her second book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, published by Oxford University Press, was released late in 2016. From 2010-2015, she earned a Ph.D., followed by a two-year Post Doc at the Harvard University Law School. She is a regular commentator on radio and TV.

On this week’s Truth to Power, we gather folks around the microphones for a community conversation about the union organizing work of Jane McAlevey, whose work is the current subject of the DSA Louisville Night & Day Schools. Jane McAlevey is a union organizer, scholar, author, and political commentator, who has contributed to The New York Times, The Nation, Jacobin, and many others. In June 2019, University of California, Berkeley Labor Center announced the appointment of McAlevey as a Senior Policy Fellow. She's written three books about power and strategy and the essential role of workers and trade unions in reversing income inequality and building a stronger democracy: Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (Verso Books, 2012), No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), and her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, published by Ecco Press in January 2020. Joining hosts Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) and Hart Hagan (The Climate Report / Let’s Talk) is Jake Bush from the Louisville DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Get involved and learn more at https://www.dsalouisville.org/ On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Sunday at 4pm, Monday at 2pm, and Tuesday at 9am on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

Join in on the fun Discord conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, joins Laborwave to discuss chapters 5 & 6 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey; "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House!" Our conversation highlights the importance of connecting our movement histories to fight against the consistent bracketing of social movements as self-contained and insular phenomenons, making the role of staff transparent and accountable for developing the leadership of the rank-and-file, and also pose some hard questions for the IWW asking why is it so prone to the "one-man organizing show" written about in Organizing Work and what prevents its own policies and structures from being consistently implemented? Chapter 5 analyzes the strategies of UFCW's multiple union campaigns at Smithfield Foods, where in their third round after 10+ years they finally won a union through a deep organizing model that brought in community allies under a banner of social justice to win. Chapter 6 examines the "mobilizing model," with promise, of Make the Road New York, an immigrants rights organization with more than 15,000 dues-paying members. McAlevey argues key ingredients for their success include "high-touch" participatory democracy and power over staff afforded by MRNY members. This and more in our penultimate episode of Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts! Join us in discussion and some reading sessions on our Discord server! You can get in on the fun by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave and joining as a Rank-and-Filer, or Committee Member, or Strike Captain. Once joined, you'll receive an invitation to our Discord where we have a pdf of the book, multiple channels for discussions, and voice channels for periodic reading and chat sessions together! Organizing Work, Beware the One-Man Organizing Show https://organizing.work/2019/07/beware-the-one-man-organizing-show/ Music: Thee Oh Sees- Bloody Water

Join in on the fun conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave Ellen Kress, former president of GTFF 3544 and current AFT-Oregon officer, and Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, join Laborwave for a comradely discussion on chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey. These chapters are full of exercises and advice for rookie organizers, which we discuss in detail, and talks STRIKES!!! We're introduced to another villain of the working class in the form of Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago, and shown the bravery and heroism of teachers that battled him down and won in a massive strike during 2012. These chapters also present us with arguments about the possibility of reforming unions through challenging existing leadership and bargaining for the common good. Join us in discussion and some reading sessions on our Discord server! You can get in on the fun by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave and joining as a Rank-and-Filer, or Committee Member, or Strike Captain. Once joined, you'll receive an invitation to our Discord where we have a pdf of the book, multiple channels for discussions, and voice channels for periodic reading and chat sessions together! Music: Thee Oh Sees- Maria Stacks

Join the conversations around this book in our Laborwave Discord by becoming any type of patron of the show at patreon.com/laborwave !!! This is our second episode of Comrades Read Together where we're discussing, chapter by chapter, the book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. We follow up our conversation tackling the introduction and chapter 2 with a review of the book by Nick Dreidger, contributing writer to Organizing Work! Dreidger asks the tough questions about the political horizons achievable under a labor relations framework, and whether it's possible for "business unions" to break out of such constricting frameworks. He also argues that McAlevey's ultimate aims in labor organizing leads us down the path of left electoral politics, where the power that has been built by workers through these deep organizing methods are undercut by the top-down system of politics available within the electoral realm. We also talked about the IWW approach, why it succeeds and why it fails, and speak about the prospects for independent radical unions. Read his full review, No Shortcuts, But to Where? at https://organizing.work/2019/12/no-shortcuts-but-to-where/ We're continuing with this series by reading chapters 3-4 and engaging with folks on our Laborwave Discord!

Become a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave Andrea Haverkamp, President of CGE 6069; Sarah Pishioneri, labor organizer based in Oregon; and Alex Riccio, labor organizer based in Philadelphia; have a comradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey. Join us in discussion and some reading sessions on our Discord server! You can get in on the fun by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave and joining as a Rank-and-Filer, or Committee Member, or Strike Captain. Once joined, you'll receive an invitation to our Discord where we have a pdf of the book, multiple channels for discussions, and voice channels for periodic reading and chat sessions together! We cover the main arguments put forward in the introduction and chapter two concerning theories of power, the difference between advocacy, mobilizing, and organizing strategies, and whole-worker organizing. We also hiss and boo at the villains taken on by McAlevey named Andy Stern, former president of SEIU, and Saul Alinsky, overall weak-sauce organizer pushing a mostly advocacy and mobilizing approach to social change where organizers pretend to be neutral support with no agendas or positions. This and more in our first Comrades Read Together!

Jane McAlevey is a lifetime agitator and shitkicker. So why haven’t you seen her on TV? Why don’t we ever see any of our brightest thinkers and doers in the mainstream media? This is one of reasons I started RUMBLE — to bring brilliant voices like hers to you. Jane and I discuss how we can start creating 2021 now — the world we want to live in, the things we want to change. Aggressive organizing, including strikes, will be necessary regardless of who wins the 2020 election. And, surprise, surprise — we can end up as the real winners once we realize we’re the ones who truly hold the power. ********** Read Jane's new book, "A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy" A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9780062908599 or https://amzn.to/3bYr8Ja Read Jane's previous books! No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9780190868659 or https://amzn.to/2UT9CAl Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781781683156 or https://amzn.to/3b47NGc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rumble-with-michael-moore/message

"It's time to either fight or be f*cked." - Jane McAlevey From May 8-11, 2019, Manitoba’s unions hosted the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference: inviting union members, labour activists and leaders from across Canada to reflect on the history of the general strike, and apply its lessons to the present and future of the labour movement. What would it take to build another general strike? Why would another general strike be necessary? These questions came up over and over again throughout the conference. This episode explores those conversations, combining audio from the roundtables: Poverty and the Fight for Material Existence, Building an Inclusive Labour Movement and Making Labour a Social Force & Political Leader. It also includes audio from Dr. Jane McAlevey’s keynote speech at the Ukranian Labour Temple. The speakers you will hear in this episode, in order of appearance, are: Greg McPherson, musician (Winnipeg, MB) Dr. Jane McAlevey, author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age John Clark - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Toronto, ON) Sean Smith - Toronto Airport Workers’ Council (Toronto, ON) Victor Elkins - Former President, Hospital Employees Union (Vancouver, BC) Alia Karim - Fight for $15 Movement (Toronto, ON) Chris Ramsaroop - Justice for Migrant Workers (Toronto, ON) Suzanne MacNeil: President, Halifax-Dartmouth and District Labour Council (Halifax, NS) Basia Sokal - President of the Winnipeg Labour Council (Winnipeg, MB) The music included in this episode is by Monplasir, found on Creative Commons, and Greg McPherson performing The Company Store at the Solidarity Forever concert on May 15, 2019, recorded by Paul S. Graham.

Avery Edwards is a community organizer, gender freedom fighter, and a co-founder of PYROS, the Prairie Youth Radical Organizing School, located on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton. In 2018, PYROS launched Queer Scouts, a cohort style leadership development program that empowers queer and trans youth to challenge injustice in their schools and communities through collective action. I met Avery and some other members of PYROS and Queer Scouts in Winnipeg last month at the 1919 General Strike conference. Attending this conference was part of their youth education programming. Jane McAlevey, labour organizer and author of the book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, was the keynote speaker at this conference and spoke about the need to build the strike weapon to combat climate change. As young people across Canada and around the world participate in climate strikes, walking out of school to demand energy and climate justice, there has never been a more crucial time to engage youth in education about labour history and strike tactics that can win. The Prairie Youth Radical Organizing School is creating programming that sets itself apart from many other queer and trans organizations in Alberta, by bringing in this important labour component. For more information, visit: www.prairieyouthradicalorganizingschool.org -Support the show on Patreon- www.patreon.com/rfradio-prairie -Social Media- Twitter.com/RFRadioPrairie Twitter.com/Emily_Leedham_ -More Labour News- www.rankandfile.ca

The 1919 General Strike anniversary conference in Winnipeg kicked off on Wednesday, May 8, with labour activists and academics from across Canada congregating at the University of Winnipeg. The intention of the conference was to not only reflect on the lessons of the general strike, but understand where Canada’s labour movement is at today. Specifically - what is the state of the strike in Canada? Keynote speaker, U.S. based organizer and author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, Jane McAlevey spoke at the Ukrainian Labour Temple on Thursday about what makes an effective strike. I sat down with Mike Palecek, President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to talk about the state of the strike in Canada, given Trudeau legislated CUPW back to work last year, caving to corporate pressure concerned about losing profits during the holiday season. On Saturday, May 11, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted a talk by Boots Riley, rapper with the legendary hip hop ensemble the Coup, author, activist, and director of Sorry to Bother You, a mind bending dystopic film that centres heavily around labour organizing. I sat down with Boots to talk about Sorry to Bother You, and why radical labour organizing is essential for fighting corporate power and giving teeth to social and economic justice. It’s clear that the future of regaining the strike in Canada will require illegal action. It will also require activists within the labour movement willing to agitate and organize to build up workers willingness to take those actions. But as Mike Palecek said, the best education is experience. And in the spirit of celebrating the 1919 General Strike, I hope that Rank & File Radio Prairie Edition and RankandFile.ca can be resources to help encourage and facilitate that kind of organizing in Canada today. -Support the show on Patreon- patreon.com/RFRadioPrairie -Social Media- twitter.com/rfradioprairie - More Labour News - www.rankandfile.ca

 I'll take a little theory and history with my labor organizing, please. And I'd like them shaken...not stirred. Comrade and fellow social worker/labor organizer, Sam, is on the show this week to help me talk about Jane McAlevey's dynamite book on labor organizing in the current era of capitalism, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. We talk about the basic concepts and organizing strategy McAlevey focuses on in the book by looking at their application in our own labor union organizing with social workers in Texas.  There are also lots of details in here regarding some basic facts and history of labor unions and labor struggles in the U.S. which should be of interest to theory geeks, history nerds, and organizers alike. Most importantly, we talk at-length about our own personal realizations that a strong Leftist, radical approach to labor organizing isn't just about higher wages - it's about human dignity and changing society.   ***Correction: First philanthropic foundation we mention in the show was the Rockefeller Foundation, not the Ford Foundation. See notes below on Ludlow Massacre*** References/Further Reading and Viewing: McAlevey on Fight for 15! Labor Notes Review of No Shortcuts OPEIU Homepage Wisconsin's Act 10 Right-to-Work Laws Harlan County, USA - One of THE BEST Documentaries on U.S. Labor Struggles You Can Find Out There John D. Rockefeller and the Ludlow Massacre What is the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Why Should I Care? The Problem with Saul Alinsky ------------------------------------------------ Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

This week, special guest and dear friend HUGH joins us to share his experiences as a union organizer and to talk about Jane McAlevey's book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age! Many thanks to friend and organizer Melanie for suggesting this text. Other texts mentioned: The scandal involving Elon Musk, Grimes, and Azealia Banks - https://bit.ly/2BwUUHx Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky - https://bit.ly/2QFJYL5 The story of Elizabeth Holmes, technowizard darling turned fraud - https://nyti.ms/2MyAors We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini - https://bit.ly/2D9RmvP

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matthew & Jesse go beyond Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next and his apt citations of policy successes in other societies found outside the U.S., and will instead grapple with the stasis of the Left and its tragic inability to wrest change from the Death-Dealers of Neoliberalism. How can we learn from both the past and present to make another world possible? How can we transcend the suffering and carnage found in our daily lives that are as deceptively petty as buying child-socks at Target, but are, nonetheless, consumer rituals made heavy by unseen violence? Join our co-hosts as they do a politically drunk version of Jiu-Jitsu via the wreckage of what lies behind, around and ahead of us. Jesse & Matt will then imagine what strategies and tactics are most deserving of our attention in the here-and-now, so we can transcend The Poison Pyramid and finally arrive at The Golden Square. Mentioned In This Episode: Prior Discussions on The Poison Pyramid: Episode 001 on Religion: “The Desire for Certainty” Episode 002 on Capitalism: “The Invisible Hand” Episode 003 on Celebrity: “Star-Fuckers” Prior Discussions on The Golden Square: Episode 007 on Food: “Grammars of the Palate” Episode 008 on Shelter: “Gimme Shelter” Episode 009 on Healthcare: “An Apple A Day . . .” Episode 010 on Education: “Squaring the Golden Square: Education” Viewing Copies of Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next What is a ShitBox? “The ShitBox Commercial Product Review” The History of Basic Income's Origins from Thomas Paine & Beyond Mother Jones Magazine: “250 Years of Campaigns, Cash, and Corruption: From George Washington to Citizens United, a Timeline of America's History of Political Money Games” Moyers & Company: One-Hour Documentary - “The United States of ALEC” The Original Exposé on the Koch Brothers' Wealth and Political Manipulation by The New Yorker, published in 2010: Jane Mayer's “Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who Are Waging War on Obama” A Story of Winners and Losers in 99 Homes: YouTube Excerpt of Michael Shannon Discussing Why America Only Bails Out the Winners Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes: The Feature Film. Starring Laura Dern, Michael Shannon, and Andrew Garfield. The Los Angeles Review of Books: “On Bureaucracy and the Left” by Guy Patrick Cunningham David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and The Secret Joys of Bureaucracy The Norwegian American: “How Norwegian Do It: National Elections in Norway” The 28ers' Official Website: “The organization was established in 2012 from the ashes of Occupy Riverside, and is now a 501(c)4 non-profit that aims to pass a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by creating exclusive public financing for all federal elections, and forever sever private wealth from politics.” Joe Scarborough in Politico: “Obama's Friendship with Wall Street” (2011) The Sunlight Foundation: “The Max Baucus Health Care Lobbyist Complex” Lawrence Lessig's TEDtalk: “We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim” Counterpunch: “The Woman Who Blew the Whistle on Halliburton Gets Canned” Financial Times on No-Bid Contracts: “Contractors Reap $138bn from Iraq War” UC Davis' Center for Poverty Research: “What Is the History of the Minimum Wage?” The Official Website for Wolf PAC: It's Vision, Plan and Course for Actions Wolf PAC's Progress Toward Calling for a Constitutional Convention: Five States Thus Far What Is an Article V Convention? It's Origins, History and Potential for Change. The ERA Movement: The Equal Rights Amendment Act Beacon Broadside: “Phyllis Schlafly: Still Wrong (and Mean) After All of These Years” Old Enough to Die in War, But Not Old Enough to Vote? A Wikipedia History of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and How Student Protests Pushed Congress to Enact Its Ratification Process for Later Passage in 1971. The Washington Times: “Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Most Dangerous Organization ‘in Human History'” The Washington Post: “Democrats Troll House Republicans, Sing and Wave ‘Bye-Bye' as AHCA Passes” Youtube Video of Democrats Singing “Goodbye” Song Youtube Video of Democratic Convention Where Sarah Silverman Says to Berners: “Can I Say to the Bernie-Or-Bust People: You're Being Ridiculous!” Gawker: “Report: Hillary Clinton Used Static Noise Machine to Prevent Reporters from Hearing Fundraising Speech” CNN News: “Sanders Supporters Shower Clinton Motorcade with Dollar Bills” Jane F. McAlevey's No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Moyers & Company: Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter: “Occupy Mistook a Tactic for a Strategy” Murray Bookchin: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: The Climate Versus Capitalism Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work What was the Mont Pelerin Society, Its Aims & Who Was Its Founders? Nancy MacClean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America The North Star: Mark Fisher's “Exiting the Vampire Castle” Russell Brand's Brilliant Counterpunches When Being Cross-Examined by Jeremy Paxman on BBC's Newsnight (& Not Getting All the Ethical Issues Right - How DARE HIM!) Cenk Uygur's Ill-Conceived Idea of Starting Justice Democrats Instead of Doubling Down on Wolf PAC New Poll Shows Money in Politics Is A Top Voting Concern According to 2015 Study, 90% of Democrats, 84% of Republicans and 80% of Republicans Say That Money in Politics Has Too Much of an Influence on Our Democracy The Los Angeles Times: “California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelves single-payer healthcare bill, calling it 'woefully incomplete'” Ryan Skolnick: “Anthony Rendon Is Wrong: SB 562 Is Not Woefully Incomplete” Robert Pollin's Defense of SB-562 in The Intercept: “Why Single Payer, Now, Is for Real”   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode, Jesse & Matt discuss the third most important element of The Golden Square which is so simple and obvious, that it's remarkable this idea is even contested as a human right in the Yankee-lands of Ol' Red, White and Blue: the absolute right to healthcare for every human being on Earth. Matthew will provide a surprising prologue about what's suddenly taken place in his personal life since this episode's initial recording and open up about his mother's life-long illness; in call & response fashion, Jesse will then talk about what it was like to get healthcare in Sarah-Palin-Land as a child. The co-hosts will also explore their personal relationships to this essential cornerstone to The Golden Square, and their own anxieties about having access to healthcare as middle-aged men with pre-existing conditions. And lastly, Matt & Jesse will look at healthcare systems around the world, and offer up a poignant portrait of the very near and immediate struggles facing activists as they fight for a momentous Single Payer bill in California (SB-562). Mentioned In This Episode: Matthew's Heavy-Breathing Prologue: What Is a Double Pulmonary Embolism? Wikipedia Wants to Help. The Speaker of the State Assembly, Anthony Rendon, Blocks SB-562 Why Is Single Payer in California Being Blocked? Money in Politics. The Start-Dates for Universal Healthcare in Other Nations: A 20th Century Invention Ready for America's 21st Century? Prologue Over & Now for the Actual Show! Kathy Griffin / Reza Aslan: Why Free Speech Is for Everyone! We Believe In It!Jehova's Witness & Blood Transfusions: Wikipedia Provides Bloodless Triage The Hanford Reservation, Plutopia: “The Bomb and the Explosions of U.S. Suburbs” Neil Burton in Psychology Today: “A Short History of Bipolar Disorder” The Fat Man & Little Boy Bombs: “The Men Who Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki”  Ronald Reagan's ‘Strange' Gift: COBRA: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 PBS Newshour: 70% of American College Teachers Are Part-Time/Adjuncts Explaining Neoliberal Tourette Syndrome (NTS): Michael J. Sandel's What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets George Lakoff's Don't Think Like Elephants: Know Your Values & Frame the Debate George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By YouTube Clip of George Lakoff: “Idea Framing, Metaphors and Your Brain” Salon Interviews Psychologist Gail Saltz: “Study: Liberals and Conservatives Have Different Brain Structures” Prefrontal Cortex Last to Form in Humans & Why Teenagers Do The Craziest Things Saul D. Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: A Practical Guide for Realistic Radicals Saul D. Alinksy on Being Your Own Witness & Why the Right Hates Him So Much Why the Left Falsely Thinks Logic Will Win the Day: “Keep Losing Arguments? A Psychologist Explains Why Emotions Are More Persuasive Than Logic.” Western Society's Classic Understanding of Rhetoric: “The Three Means of Persuasion: Pathos, Logos & Ethos” The U.S. Metrics For Healthcare Delivery Are Both Dizzying & Sad: We Spend 3 Trillion for Healthcare Annually U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective National Health Expenditures 2015 Highlights The United States Has Lowest Life Expectancy in the Industrialized World & the Rate Actually Went Down for First Time in Decades We Have the Highest Infant Mortality Rate in the Industrialized World 62% of US Bankruptcies from Healthcare Emergencies Medical Bankruptcy accounts for majority of personal bankruptcies Top 10 Reasons People Go Bankrupt Warren Buffett: America's Healthcare Costs “the Tapeworm to American Competitiveness” What Is a “5150”? A Wikipedia Working Definition. Time Magazine: “Here's How Much the Average Worker Has to Pay for Healthcare” Business Insider: Map of the Biggest Employers in the US: UC System Is #1 for California The Rich History of Workers Compensation Obamacare came from Heritage Foundation & It's Essentially a Nixonian Idea The Affordable Health Care Act for America Michael Moore's Masterpiece: Sicko (2007) - (At the Time the Documentary's  Release, France Had the Best System in the World) Top Ten Healthcare Rankings By Nation: Denmark Has #1 Healthcare System in the World; Not Surprisingly, Mostly Scandinavian Nations Are in the Rankings. Worldwide Spending on Healthcare Political Scientist Corey Robin's Book: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Irony of Ironies: World Health Organization's Study on Healthcare Efficiency Ranked America's System 37 and Communist Cuba's 39 (with Cuba Having a Lower Infant Mortality Rate). The New Zealand Herald: “New Zealand Reclaims Title as World's Least Corrupt Country” Rose Ann Demoro, the Executive Director for the California Nurses Association Says, “There is a conspiracy of silence on Single Payer.” Daniel Marans in The Huffington Post: HR-676 - Medicare-for-All - Representative John Conyers' “Bill Has Never Been This Popular” Pew Research Center: “Currently, 60% say the federal government is responsible for ensuring health care coverage for all Americans, while 39% say this is not the government's responsibility.” The Economist/YouGov Poll April 2 - 4, 2017 Once Something Might Be Taken Away: TrumpCare Actually Made Obamacare More Popular and More Well-Known as to Its Benefits President Obama Jokes that Obamacare Is More Popular Than Trump Tragic Nostalgia Time: “Bernie Sanders for President” Website on Medicare for All: Save U.S. $5 trillion over 10 years; Families would pay $466 and save $5,807; Businesses would save $9,000 a year on average. Democracy Now!: “Report: Senator Max Baucus Received More Campaign Money from Health and Insurance Industry Interests than Any Other Member of Congress” Democracy Now!: “Baucus's Raucous Caucus: Doctors, Nurses and Activists Arrested Again for Protesting Exclusion of Single-Payer Advocates at Senate Hearing on Healthcare” The Problem with President Obama Thinking Like a Community Organizer: Unions Make Impossible Demands and Then Move to the Center, Whereas Community Organizers Start in the Middle: Jane F. McAlevey's No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age YouTube Clip: Rahm Emanuel Sold Us Short for Bad Healthcare Deals: “Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” Curtis Black in the The Chicago Reporter: “Emanuel Is the Last Person to Give Democrats Advice on Strategy” YouTube Clip: During a Rare Townhall Appearance, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein Calls Medicare for All a “Government Take-Over” YouTube Clip: Lauren Steiner (from Robust Opposition) Questions Dianne Feinstein About Townhall Response Concerning Medicare for All. Healthy California's Website for SB-562: Healthy California Act Inland Empire: “The New Jersey of California” The 28ers: An Original Affinity Group from Occupy Riverside & Its Swarm Campaign for SB-562 Norway: #1 Is Now the Happiest Place on Earth - Very Strong Public Financing System: 74% Public Funds; 26% Party Memberships Dues Organizations in Support of SB-562: Healthy California Act California Nurses Association's Main Website Nurses Most Trusted Profession Again in America: 15 Years & Counting Bernie Sanders Gives a Shout-Out to SB-562 and Nurses Created the Biggest Ovation and Response at Chicago's People's Summit New York Quite Close to Getting Single Payer in the State: One Vote Short Vermont's Attempt to Establish a Single-Payer Healthcare System 2016 Colorado Care: “Single-Payer Health Care Dream Dies In Colorado” Previous Single Payer Bills in Calfornia “Dirty Little Secret: Insurers Actually Are Making a Mint from Obamacare” California Senate Passes SB-562 “Single Payer Would Save Us All a Lot of Money” Economic Analysis of the Healthy California Single-Payer Health Care Proposal (SB-562) - UMass Amherst Tommy Douglas: "The Greatest Canadian" Breaking Bad: All You Need To Know About The American Health Care System List of Countries with Universal Health Care Nina Turner's Keynote Speech in Sacramento for SB-562: “Dear Democrats: Stop Talking About Russia & Tell Us What You're Going To Do About Healthcare.” “Just when you think you're in a tomb, remind yourselves you're in a womb.” How The Labour Party Created Britain's National Health Service (NHS)

In this edition of Making Contact, we look at how workers are organizing outside of labor unions and where traditional labor could be headed. Featuring: Cal Soto, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON); NDLON worker members – Marta, Jesús, Angel; Kathy Hoang, Director of Restaurant Opportunities Center – Los Angeles; Jane McAlevey, union organizer and author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. For More information: National Day Laborer Organizing Network Pasadena Community Jobs Center Restaurant Opportunities Center, Los Angeles Jane McAlevey, union organizer and author The post A Look at Labor Organizing, and Worker and Immigrant Rights appeared first on KPFA.

For the last forty years, unions and the left more broadly have been in decline. Clearly the business class went on the offensive during this time, but is that the whole story? Veteran organizer Jane McAlevey argues that the left abandoned deep organizing just at the moment when the right was organizing its grassroots, and the result has been the devastating.  She discusses, in concrete terms, how to turn the tide. Resources: Jane F. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Oxford University Press, 2016 Who Rules America? The post Organizing Class Power, Turning the Tide Against the Right appeared first on KPFA.

Nicole speaks with author/activist Jane McAlevy about her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, and with Antonia Juhasz, energy analyst and journalist who focuses on oil on Pres Obama's parting shot of making much of the Atlantic and Arctic immune from offshore drilling.

Union Organizer, Jane McAlevey, will be here to discuss her timely new book, “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.” Justin Miller from the American Prospect will be here to tell us about Andy Puzder, the anti-worker fast food CEO that might be our next Labor Secretary. Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to recap the week in news. Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!

Today’s epsiode was recorded live at an event with union organizer and author Jane McAlevey in Toronto last week to launch her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. I was honoured to share the stage with Jane and Stephanie Ross, who teaches in labour studies at McMaster, to discuss this important and […]