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Event: Black Workers and the Triple Pandemic (6/24)
Confronting COVID, Economic Freefall, and Structural Racism RSVP HERE WED. JUNE 24, 2020 * 12pm – 2 pm * Virtual Forum Please note: ZOOM link will be shared with all participants on the day before and day-of the event. Black workers are facing a crisis on multiple fronts. They are more likely to be frontline…
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Video: From Economic Crisis to Economic Democracy
In honor of the birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois, who amidst other great accomplishments authored Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans in 1907, the Murphy Institute hosted a forum on Friday, February 28th to explore the stories, struggles and successes of workers who have taken control and bettered their lives through the cooperative history of African-American communities, and…
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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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Can the Bay Area Tech Economy Embrace Equity Before It’s Too Late?
Featured photo credit: SEIU-USWW By Chris Schildt, PolicyLink This post originally appeared at New Economy Week 2015: From Austerity to Prosperity. Uber recently purchased one of the largest office spaces in downtown Oakland, California, with plans to move3,000 of its workers there by 2017. For a city facing a housing crisis and rapid displacement of…
