Fresh audio product: British and Iranian elections, remembering Jane McAlevey
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 11, 2024 Richard Seymour discusses the British election (Sidecar article here) • Trita Parsi, the Iranian election • remembering Jane McAlevey with a 2017 BtN interview excerpt (catalog of interviews here)
Jane McAlevey: the Behind the News interviews
Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and frequent BtN guest, died on July 7. To remember her, I ran an excerpt from a March 2017 interview with her. Here’s what I said to introduce the interview, and below that is a list of her appearances on the show. The dates are links to the entry in my radio archive. Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and human dynamo, who appeared on this show nine times over the years, starting in 2012, died on Sunday, July 7, at the age of 59. I met Jane… Read More
Labor legend Jerry Brown responds to critics of Jane McAlevey
This was not written for this blog, but I’ve been asked to circulate it widely. It’s a response by Jerry Brown—not the governor but the long-time leader of SEIU 1199 New England—to reviews by Steve Early and Joe Burns of Jane McAlevey’s excellent book Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell), on how to revive the U.S. labor movement. Both reviews are extremely tendentious and unfair, and do not respond to Jane’s arguments at all. I am also addressing this re-post in part to all the people who’ve embraced the Early/Burns line without having read the book. My… Read More
LBO News from Doug Henwood 