New Labor Forum
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Oct. 17th, 2016
NLF Editorial Board Member Adolph Reed starts this issue of Highlights with a pushback. While the increased attention to police brutality and the injustice of our criminal justice system is essential, Reed argues that the one-dimensional focus on race obscures an understanding of the “ immensely fortified and self-reproducing institutional and industrial structure” of the carceral…
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Standing Rock-Solid with the Frackers
This post was originally featured at New Labor Forum. By Sean Sweeney If anyone were looking for further evidence that the AFL-CIO remains unprepared to accept the science of climate change, and unwilling to join with the effort being made by all of the major labor federations of the world to address the crisis, the…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Oct. 3rd, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. The AFL-CIO and the Laborers International Union (LiUNA) have come out in support of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), demonstrating…
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Video: The Left Wing of the Possible
On Friday, September 16th, the Murphy Institute and the New Labor Forum hosted a conversation about the possibilities and potentials unleashed this election season. We heard from Steve Cobble, Mark M. Griffith, Bob Master and Nina Turner about what might be required to maintain the momentum and build a movement of the 99 percent, and how Bernie Sanders…
