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Articles by Alisha Volante
Critical Race Feminism and Common Good Unionism
Our democracy is in shambles. The racist and radical right wing, institutionalized in the GOP, won the right to impanel a retrograde Supreme Court—one committed to rolling the clock back to an America where Black Americans are back on plantations, LGBTQIA+ individuals are back in the shadows, women are barefoot and pregnant, and landholding, gun-toting white men are the only individuals with freedom.
Three Amazon Warehouses Catch Fire; Workers Protest Unsafe Conditions With Sit-In
Amazon warehouses caught fire in New York and Alabama this past week, endangering hundreds of workers. In the unionized Staten Island facility, workers marched on managers and staged a sit-down in protest over Amazon’s disregard for their safety—and the company lashed back with mass suspensions. The HSV1 fulfillment center in Madison, a suburb of Huntsville in northern Alabama, caught fire Monday evening, October 3, for a second time in two weeks.
Worker Co-ops Organize to Make Community Finance Work for Movements
“You’re not going to finance the movement with conventional financing.” So noted Clark Arrington, who was inducted last year into the national cooperative hall of fame and is a senior fellow at Seed Commons, a community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports worker co-op development in 30 communities.
Naming What We Do Want
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Critical Race Feminism and Common Good Unionism
This article is the fourth installment in our series co-produced by Bargaining for the Common Good and NPQ, titled Building a Movement for the Common Good. In this series, we learn how and why Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is the right strategy for our times of social crisis, featuring extreme wealth inequality and declining democracy as well as a renewed attention to labor organizing and mass uprisings for racial justice.
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