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Articles by Mat Hanson
Debriefing the 2022 Midterms: Hard Wins and Historic Threats
The red wave that most political commentators predicted ahead of the 2022 midterms didn’t quite materialize, at least not as expected — in no small part because of the work that grassroots organizers did in Georgia and across the country. Their work offers valuable lessons for how we can respond to the radical right while building the movement we need to win a multi-racial democracy and just economy.
How Tipped Workers Won in DC
The nation’s capital has the highest minimum wage in the country, but tipped workers still earn a sub-minimum wage, about one third of what other workers earn. That’s about to change, thanks to the determined efforts of tipped workers and their progressive allies, who brought the issue back to voters this election with Initiative 82.
Widening Political Participation in Lexington, Kentucky
This interview is part of a series of articles from The Forge and New America spotlighting successful stories of co-governance models across rural, urban, and tribal communities. Collaborative governance — or “co-governance” — offers a model for shifting power to ordinary people and re-building their trust in government.
Tipped Workers and the Fight for $15
Nikki Cole has spent more than a decade building worker and progressive political power at the local and national level, most recently as the National Policy Campaign Director for One Fair Wage. Launched in 2019, OFW grew out of the work of the Restaurant Opportunities Center, and is focused on ending the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, currently frozen at $2.13. Cole began working in the hospitality industry at 15 and started organizing with ROC in 2009.
It’s Time for Labor to Embrace Antimonopoly
In the United States, it is nearly impossible for workers to win a union contract against an employer that is determined to remain non-union. How much harder, then, to beat an employer that can hire $10,000-a-day anti-union consultants, get the United States Postal Service to place a mailbox in front of the plant for mail-in voting, and even change the pattern of stoplights to keep organizers from talking to workers at shift changes?
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Winning Primaries: Coalition, Confrontation, or Both?
This past August, Cori Bush defeated ten-term incumbent Lacy Clay in the Democratic primary, meaning she’ll all-but-waltz through the general elections to represent the first congressional district of Missouri. Her victory was the latest in a string of progressive wins this summer, from the For the Many slate in New York to Reclaim’s victories in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
We Were All Exhausted: On the Natural Alliance between Football
It was the spring semester of 2011 — the end of my first year in a full-time but non-tenure-line faculty appointment at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. It was 8:00 a.m., and I was walking into my first of two two-hour classes for that day. We were in week eleven of a 15-week semester, and, although the Minnesota winter was finally breaking and the sun shone brightly that morning, neither myself nor any of my forty-odd students wanted to be in class so early.
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