As the masked goons of the MAGA nanny-state continue to disappear students for holding views upsetting to hysterical Zionists and their sweaty, senile leader continues to rule by deranged imperial decree executive order, we sit down with Erica Thomas, a union organizer, professor and artist, to talk about what’s going on in our increasingly unhinged southern neighbour, the USA. We talk about the Portland police force’s weird attempt to join the Oregon labour movement, the enshittification of higher education and everything else, and the state of Palestine organizing on campuses today. We also talk about union art, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the possibility, at long last, of the emergence of a true third party in US politics.
Show Notes
Erica’s website
Erica’s IG
Portland’s police union is trying to use the labor movement to avoid budget cuts
Five Things I Did This Week by Laurie Wimmer
The Palestine Exception by Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee for new unionization support and general how-to-union basic education
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
Join DSA
Bread & Roses - the Marxist caucus of DSA
The Bread & Roses reading list
The Bread & Roses blog
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Councilor Mitch Green, District 4, Portland
Portland city councilor threatens PSU project funding over response to pro-Palestinian library takeover
Federal investigation into 5 universities for “antisemitism” which targeted Portland State and 4 others
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