After years of campaigning, London activists recently secured a commitment from the city’s mayor to create a publicly-owned municipal energy company. James Angel of Switched On London explains what energy democracy means in the age of Brexit and Trump.
Jane McAlevey joins us to talk about her new book, No Shortcuts, strategies for workplace organizing, and what’s wrong with Saul Alinsky.
Journalist and organizer Desiree Kane brings us an update from Standing Rock, where Native American activists and their allies are gearing up for the winter as pipeline construction resumes.
We speak with two Harvard workers, Kecia Pugh and Anabela Pappas, and UNITE HERE organizer Tiffany Ten Eyck about the ongoing strike at the country’s most elite university.
Economist Robert Pollin joins us to introduce a new series on the promise—and practicalities—of a Green New Deal. We also get an update from Standing Rock, where the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline continues.
The Chicago Teachers Union is on the verge of another major strike—one that could be even longer and nastier than the union’s landmark 2012 fight. Public school teacher and CTU activist Sarah Chambers lays out the stakes.
Last week’s general strike in India might have been the largest strike in history.
Lindsey Dayton from the Graduate Workers of Columbia joins us to talk about the recent NLRB ruling that graduate students who work for private universities are employees and have the right to unionize.
Belabored co-host Sarah Jaffe talks about her new book, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
Leading Nigerian climate activist Ken Henshaw discusses fossil fuel resistance and the uphill battle for energy democracy in Africa’s largest oil-producing region.
A sneak preview of the labor events happening at the World Social Forum next week in Montreal.
Airport workers at the Philadelphia International Airport just voted to strike next week during the Democratic National Convention. SEIU 32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan joins us to explain why.
Leading climate scientist Michael Mann explains what “runaway” climate change, feedback mechanisms, and tipping points actually mean—and why there’s still hope.
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has been a long time in the making, but will the solutions advocated by the U.S. government make it any better?
Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, joins us to talk about the nursing strike in Minnesota. Plus: audio from NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro’s People’s Summit speech on why we need to fight neoliberalism now.
