Working Life

I pull back the lens a bit on the Black Lives Matter movement to consider how the uprising is touching the consciousness of workers around the globe, especially in Africa. Chris Johnson, the regional director of Africa for the Solidarity Center, joins me in a conversation about the close relationship between racism and economic oppression, […]

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We’re not resting in the low-key week between Xmas and the New Year. I chat up Marcus Ferrell, who was Bernie Sanders’ main man organizing African American voters, who is now in the fray himself, running for a state house seat in Arizona. And across the country from sunny Arizona, over in the much chillier […]

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Forget what you read from this day on about the polls and the pundits and the status quo rhetoric. It’s over in Iowa and New Hampshire…and the status quo knows it. The Moveon endorsement—which VL Baker write about here—coupled with the enthusiasm we’ve already seen on the ground in Iowa for many weeks, which I […]

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Bernie is about to address the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in New Hampshire. A flavor: We began this campaign seven months ago. We had no organization, no money, very little national name recognition and were at 3 percent in the polls. Today, we have hundreds of thousands of volunteers in every state in the country, including some […]

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Yesterday, I spoke before a group of Democrats in Reno, Nevada on behalf of Bernie and, at one point, someone asked me about why the biggest labor unions are not choosing to endorse Bernie. My first point was simple: it’s a crass and ugly if understandable choice—the union leaders, many of whom I know, understand […]

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   Over the past few months, I, and others, have pointed out that John Edwards is clearly the strongest advocate for organized labor. Up here in New Hampshire, where I’ve been for the past couple of days, I think that has become more clear. That became clear yesterday.   All the Democratic candidates, if asked, […]

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   Over the past few months, I, and others, have pointed out that John Edwards is clearly the strongest advocate for organized labor. Up here in New Hampshire, where I’ve been for the past couple of days, I think that has become more clear. That became clear yesterday.   All the Democratic candidates, if asked, […]

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    For all of the political junkies amongst us, it’s going to be interesting to see what polls show at the end of the week. For a few days, there will be one huge (I refuse to use the newly concocted "ginormous" which seems to me to be a lazy new word conjured up by […]

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    For all of the political junkies amongst us, it’s going to be interesting to see what polls show at the end of the week. For a few days, there will be one huge (I refuse to use the newly concocted "ginormous" which seems to me to be a lazy new word conjured up by […]

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