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author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/ Red State Revolt, laborpolitics.substack.com; EWOC, AAUP-AFT, 🌹

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NCAA is sounding the alarm on a charter aircraft shortage for March Madness teams because ICE is using up the planes πŸ‘€

05.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Spend Almost a Trillion Yearly on War. That’s Insane. Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many

55% percent of House Democrats voted for the most recent military budget

Trump is setting the world on fire, but Democrats gave him the matches

www.laborpolitics.com/p/cut-the-mi...

04.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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ICE agents this morning apparently kidnapped a student after lying to get into a Columbia dorm

26.02.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Want to get your college to break its contracts with the companies propping up ICE?

Join the Schools Drop ICE organizing training & campus meet-up tonight Tuesday Feb 24 at 8pm ET/5pm PT β€” RSVP at tinyurl.com/schoolorgani...

24.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shopping Isn’t a Strategy The goal of a boycott is not to make ourselves feel better. The goal is to make society better.

Like bowling, boycotting is best done together

I wrote this piece to share with your friends and family who think they're "doing their part" against ICE and Trump by not shopping at bad companies

www.laborpolitics.com/p/shopping-i...

23.02.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Without an organized force outside the state capable of shifting the balance of class forces, even the best socialist or progressive politician will be hemmed in by capital

19.02.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA permanent political party must be formed to supply encouragement and active assistance to the current executive and his administration and to ensure that successive executives carry on the desired policies” β€”Β Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor

19.02.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor from 1916 through 1940, underscored in his book "City Government" that if other cities wanted to emulate Milwaukee’s success, electing β€œhonest and competent men” was insufficient

19.02.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sewer socialism is not just about good governance and public servicesβ€”it's about building (and leaning on) a powerful working-class political organization🧡

19.02.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join me this Saturday for an online panel ICE OUT: The Minneapolis Model.

I’ll be speaking alongside Jacobin Editor @sunraysunray.bsky.social and author @ericblanc.bsky.social about lessons from the Minneapolis resistance to the fascist ICE occupation.

Register here: buff.ly/5IssMad

18.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good to see union density (slightly) increase in 2025, despite Trump!

18.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call Β· AFT We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers β€” starting on our campuses. Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...

This is tonight! See you then!

www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

15.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call Β· AFT We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers β€” starting on our campuses. Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...

See you tomorrow night!

www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

14.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not every day you see orgs as distinct as the American Federation of Teachers and the Young Democratic Socialists of America come together to push ICE and its enablers off our schools πŸ™

14.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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RSVP for this Sunday's mass call to find out how you can help push ICE's corporate collaborators off your campus

11.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What does it *feel like* to build worker power?

Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.

10.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
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We’ve Had a Nationwide Immigrant Strike Before. We Can Do It Again. The 2006 β€œDay Without an Immigrant” offers urgent lessons for beating ICE today

On May 1, 2006, millions of immigrants defeated a horrific Republican immigration bill by taking to the streets and walking out of work

To defeat ICE today we should learn from this "Day Without an Immigrant"

www.laborpolitics.com/p/weve-had-a...

09.02.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It's pretty amazing (and ultimately lucky for us) how much they undercut the effectiveness of their already extremely racist policy through stuff like this and also by (needlessly, for their project) murdering white people. a bit more discipline would have made them harder to defeat

06.02.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

"The president has said that business officials are calling and complaining to him about longtime workers being thrown out of the country" - Wall Street Journal

Trump listens to billionaires, which is why we need to force billionaires to break with ICE

05.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How has Minneapolis remained so non-violent in the face of Trump's horrific provocations?

JaNaΓ© Bates Imari explained to @thedigradio.bsky.social how MN's deep progressive orgs set a tone of non-violent discipline for the movement as a whole

04.02.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE Minnesota shows what’s possibleβ€”here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

Organizing a general strike requires three ingredients: momentum, organization, & militant, risk-tolerant leaders.

The proportions can vary, but until we have a sufficient combination of these factors, a general strike will remain a wish rather than a reality

www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

04.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE Minnesota shows what’s possibleβ€”here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

General strikes are workers’ most powerful weapon. But it takes more than hashtags to make them real.

Here’s how we can build a real general strike to stop ICE in the US

www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

02.02.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia GonzΓ‘lez Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaΓ© Bates Imari Featuring Emilia GonzΓ‘lez Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaΓ© Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...

Anybody looking to defeat ICE needs to listen to the extremely good new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode on lessons from Minnesota's key organizers

thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...

31.01.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How we beat ICEπŸ‘‡

31.01.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ready to fight ICE at work? We can help.

Here's @ericblanc.bsky.social on Brian Lehrer today with how.

30.01.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A History of General Strikes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Labor Politics author Eric Blanc talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective.

Spoke on Brian Lehrer-WNYC this morning about how we can organize an actual general strike in the US to stop ICE and Trump

www.wnyc.org/story/a-hist...

30.01.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A History of General Strikes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Labor Politics author Eric Blanc talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective.

Catch @ericblanc.bsky.social talk about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective, and listeners call in if they are participating in today's general strike.

www.wnyc.org/story/a-hist...

30.01.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tech demands ICE out of our cities

Do you work in tech and oppose ICE?

Sign this open letter here to demand tech companies stop collaborating with ICE

iceout.tech

29.01.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Over 1,000 tech workers have signed this open letter calling on their companies to break from ICEβ€”including employees at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI πŸ‘€

29.01.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 542 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 10
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French unions are raising hell about Capgemini's contract with ICE, demanding it immediately sever ties

Need that type of union energy here

29.01.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0