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We brought on school committee member Sue Mailman to discuss the new lawsuit against the Trump Administration. Worcester is a supporting character in the state-wide suit, led by Somerville and Easthampton. WPS, like districts across the state and country, stand to lose millions in funding as the Trump administration continues to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Statement from the school administration.

And we also touch on the police report Kathi Roy filed against her, for the crime of… asking a few good questions? Per the Telegram:

According to the police report, Roy alleges that Mailman approached her after the meeting and told her, "How do you feel about your party destroying my country?" and then, "How do you feel about the insurrection now?"

Hm. We the people of the Outdoor Cats Court hereby find Mailman guilty of being both right and cool. Additionally, we find Roy guilty of Snowflake Behavior. Given that Roy organized bus trips to Jan. 6 and remains an active member of the city’s Republican committee aaaaand voted against signing onto the lawsuit last Friday, these are good question!

You gotta watch the body camera footage. It’s a trip.

After Mailman, some quick updates on the senior tax work off story and the city’s new director of public health.

Bergman missing the recycle bin video

Telegram story on Tamara Lundi’s resumé

Homeless report (senior stuff on page 5)

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We brought on John Keough and Tom Marino from This Week In Worcester to rehash the council’s very deflating meeting Tuesday on the Department of Justice’s pattern and practice investigation into the Worcester Police Department. Short answer: don’t expect to hear too much more about this, and if ever a civilian review board proposal makes its way to the council floor, expect a split vote. The meeting was, however, the first time we’ve had the police chief on record answering questions about this report, and that provided some interesting glimpses into the internal machinations of the police department.

Keough and Marino have both followed the DOJ report and city’s response closely over the past several months. Some good examples: “Worcester City Council Ready to Do Nothing on Police Reform” by Tom Marino; “Thoughts from Tuesday Night at Worcester City Hall” by John Keough.

Before the interview, we talk about the news on everyone’s minds: Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PHD candidate who was abducted outside her Somerville apartment Tuesday by masked federal agents, then shipped to the same Louisiana detention center holding Mahmoud Khalil. (Watch the video here)

Chris prepared a statement to open the show, copied here in full:

We talked a few weeks ago about the illegal abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia who was taken into custody from his home in the presence of his 8 months pregnant wife. A few days after, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national who was a postdoctoral researcher at Georgetown, was also abducted by agents of the state. His wife is an American citizen of Palestinian descent. Tuesday, we learned that Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, was abducted by federal agents right here in Massachusetts, in Somerville. They kidnapped her outside of her apartment as she left to go break her Ramadan fast with friends. She is a Turkish national. In each case I have seen footage of, these people were surrounded suddenly by plainclothes agents masking their faces, stuffed into an unmarked vehicle, and disappeared.

All three of these people have been taken over a thousand miles away to a federal detention center in Louisiana. Khalil was taken from New York to New Jersey and then to Louisiana. Ozturk has apparently been transported to Louisiana in defiance of federal judges order that she not be removed from Massachusetts.

From Masslive “Ozturk was sent to Louisiana even after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ordered Ozturk to remain in the state and that the government give 48 hours’ notice before moving her”

“Over twenty-four hours after her arrest, Rumeysa has yet to be processed to her final detention facility and during this entire time, I have been unable to speak with my client,” Ozturk’s attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, said in a statement Wednesday evening. “It was only a few hours ago that I learned that she was sent to Louisiana, despite a federal court judge’s order that she not be removed from the state,” Khanbabai said.I think we have a friendly audience, but I don’t entirely know. I do know that I have people I’ve called friends, and people in my own family, who might never speak to me again because of where I stand on this. I do not f*****g care, because the right place to stand is the right place to stand: The state of Israel is in the process of a genocidal campaign against the people of Palestine, and it has openly been doing so for going on a year and a half now. We are now not only supporting that genocide with money and weapons, just as we did under the Biden regime, we are now actively hunting down any vulnerable activist on a student visa that the grossest scumbags on Earth can identify, and those people are being ripped from their homes and families and being thrown in jail to face deportation. To be clear, that is what is happening here: The government isn’t plucking these names out of the air, it is being fed these names by Zionist organizations like Betar US and Canary MissionNone of these people have been accused of committing a crime. The government has had ample opportunity to articulate any crimes they have committed, and they are not doing that. That’s the point, I think, actually. These people have been arrested and put into deportation proceedings for speaking out against a genocide being perpetrated by Israel. That’s it.I don’t want to argue with anyone about the finer points of a visa, or what was the speech. It’s really f*****g simple: People who are in our country from various nations to learn and to educate and to research are being black-bagged and shipped out for rendition because they have voiced opposition to a genocide that is ongoing right now, today.If you have been hesitant to speak up on this issue, I would encourage you to consider that it’s now-or-never time, because it’s not going to stop with Rumeysa Ozturk and it’s not going to stop with student visa holders either: These cretins have already said they intend to target naturalized citizens, imminently. The time is right f*****g now to tell your friends and your neighbors and definitely your representatives in Congress that this cannot stand, and that you do not intend to let it stand, and that Congress needs to pull all support from this or any other state committing a genocide. Get in the streets. Make noise. Do whatever you can.

Further reading on the Ozturk case…

WBUR story about protests demanding her release

Marco Rubio confirms Ozturk’s student visa has been revoked

The op-ed that led to her kidnapping

The court order this rendition disregards

For updates on demonstrations, Somerville for Palestine Instagram

Other links...

DOJ ReportNga Truong/Anatomy of a Bad Confession

Natale Cosenza Settlement

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“Challenge Convention. Change Our World.” That’s the slogan of Clark University, the hedge f—sorry, college currently refusing to even recognize its new undergraduate student-workers union. As the strike sails over the one-week mark, we sit down with two of its captains, Maile Marguleas and Hadas Brownstein.

Help support the striking workers: The SYC Mutual Aid Fund For Strikers and other resources. The union’s Twitter and Instagram.

We also recap our time on the strike line earlier this week, from a bench in University Park. New mobile pod rig worked well and it was nice!

A good Clark Scarlet article on the university’s $500 million endowment

Most recent statement from the university administration

Highest paid city employees report (83 percent cops)

Make sure you check out the first Outdoor Cats Dispatch we put up a few days ago. It’s a straight NPR-style radio story on the strike, with audio and interviews from the scene.

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Trying something new! What you’re looking at / listening to here is a trial run of O.C. Dispatches: audio news reports in the public radio tradition, but here on this newsletter!

Chris and I went down to the strike line at Clark University yesterday (we’ll be putting up a full episode soon). I brought a portable audio interface and a mic with me—a poor man’s approximation of the rig NPR reporters use—then I got back and spent the whole day assembling this news spot. I had a lot of fun doing it. It’s interesting to write in a DAW (digital audio workstation) as opposed to a document. And the audio B-roll element adds something to a story like this that text simply couldn’t. Let me know what you think!

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I’d love to do more of these. Below is a condensed written version. But first…

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Undergraduate strike at Clark approaches one week mark

On the sixth day, they made noise. Lots of noise. The line was lively Wednesday afternoon as the undergraduate student worker strike approached the first-week milestone.

Student workers at Clark University set out on strike last Friday, backed by a local chapter of the Teamsters.

Video by cohost Chris Robarge / The SYC Mutual Aid Fund For Strikers

Hour cuts and stagnating wages triggered a months-long unionization drive among the university’s 700-odd union workers. Clark graduate students formed a union a few years ago, and now the undergraduates are following suit. They want their own chapter, allowing them to collectively bargain with the university administration.

I arrived at the strike line on Wednesday afternoon to find dozens of students lining the sidewalks, all facing the windows of a university building as they chanted, banged five gallon drums, blew horned instruments—there were even a few drum kits.

I’d later learn that inside that building, the administration was holding an all-faculty meeting. Inside, the president was apparently discussing his seven figure salary—so much so that some professors walked out, according to a few people in the room.

While grad student workers unions are more common feature of campus life in recent years, an undergraduate unions are decidedly rare. But that’s changing. From 2022 to 2024, the number of such unions across the country jumped from two to more than a dozen. Most are at small, private universities like Clark, but some are massive: 20,000 student workers across the California state college system, for instance, and 4,000 at the University of Oregon.

At Clark, undergrads have everything they need except the university's recognition—hence the strike. The main demand is for what’s called a card check neutrality agreement. That means if the majority of Clark’s 700 undergraduate workers sign union cards, the university recognizes the union, and the union then has power to collectively bargain.

The university has thus far refused, maintaining that students are not by definition workers and therefore cannot unionize. Students, for their part, say the university’s stance is at odds with a 2016 National Labor Review Board decision that says undergraduate student workers are workers. Among the strikers, the shorthand for this was “Columbia 2016.”

The university administration seems to disagree. Several weeks ago, per the Clark Scarlet, Clark’s lawyer, Damien DiGiovanni, released a statement contending that students are not employees. He cited a 1976 NLRB decision to the effect, saying it was quote “wrongly overturned in 2016.”

“It is Clark University’s position that students, and most undoubtedly undergraduate students, are primarily students. As such, some or all of the students in the Petitioned-for unit are not statutory employees under Section 2(3) of the Act.

Even if some or all of the students listed in the Petition are Section 2(3) employees, they do not constitute an appropriate unit for collective bargaining, pursuant to the Board’s holding in San Francisco Art Institute, 226 NLRB 1251 (1976), and similar Board precedent, which was wrongly overturned in 2016.”

In a statement released yesterday afternoon, the university doubled down, saying Clark “does not support unionization among undergraduates.”

Regarding unionization, we understand and respect that some of our undergraduate students feel strongly about union representation, and we support your right to express those views. At the same time, the University has a differing view, and it is our responsibility to convey it. As we have shared, the University regards undergraduate students first and foremost as students – you are here at Clark above all to study and learn and pursue your academic interests and passions. Consistent with that, the University does not support unionization among undergraduates, including through a card check process which the Teamsters formally requested on March 17.

What the University supports and what we are determined to pursue is wider and more regular interaction around these issues. Our ability to respond to concerns depends upon open, candid conversation. To that end, today, I am sharing with you five concrete steps the University is taking to strengthen communication, engagement, and action with our undergraduate students.

In other words: they’re not budging.

Instead, they’ve proposed five “concrete steps”: listening sessions, “facilitated dialogue,” a “student employment advisory committee,” an employment survey and a “clear action plan” for “addressing concerns and enhancing the experience for undergraduate students in paid positions at Clark.”

Okay! They still want their union recognized though… How’s that for a concrete step?

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Éirinn go Brách, everyone! Hope Parade Day has treated you nicely.

Today’s guest is Keith Linhares, who joined us to talk about his bid for the District 1 city council seat!

His first run for office, he’ll be taking on former District 1 councilor Tony Economou, an avatar of the sort of entrenched townie politics that keeps the city stuck in the ‘80s. Keith wants to change that! A bunch of great moments on this episode, but I especially appreciate Keith’s take on the core difference in leadership style between progressives and what we might call the “old guard,” and how that relates to the political calculus around property value.

“(…) I don't want to make decisions based on economic indicators. I actually studied economics as an undergrad student. So I do have sort of a healthy respect, or maybe disrespect, that's been gained for some of those types of concepts that come from the perfect market situation. So it's all these hypotheticals that exist in these perfectly sterile environments, that all these models are developed in.

And from what I've observed in my own life, what I know from talking to my friends, from my family, is that just because property values are getting higher, it doesn't mean our lives are getting better. Just because we have 30,000 more units in the city doesn't mean we can afford them or that regular people who are already here can live in them. So I guess I want to make a pledge to everybody out there that if I'm elected as your city councilor, I'm not going to be looking purely at the numbers. I'm not going to be purely looking at these economic indicators that are supposed to be telling us how hot of a market our city is and all that other stuff.

I'm going to be looking at quality of life for the people who live here now. I don't want to see my friends, my family continue to be pushed out of the city because it's getting too expensive.

I want to see families have the ability to afford a home here and live a life that's comfortable for them.”

Check out Linhare’s Act Blue to donate to his campaign, as well as his volunteer sign up sheet, Instagram and other links.

After the interview we briefly discuss the Clark student worker strike (more on that soon!) and other odds and ends.

CU Undergrad Worker’s Union IG

Realpage Rent Fixing article

Livestream of the Roast of Worcester at the White Room

Last four grafs of The Atlantic’s Aidan Kearney feature

The Palestine / Puerto Rico solidarity sign at the Mother’s Day event

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***First thing’s first: Justice for Mahmoud Khalil Fund and contact page for Congressman Jim McGovern. Good coverage of Khalil’s completely illegal kidnapping and detention in The Nation. Please share any news about local demonstrations in the comments or at [email protected] and we’ll update here as they come in.****

We talk about Khalil’s horrible situation briefly, then get to the show we had planned: an interview with author Joanne McNeil!

I think we can all agree that the internet is worse than it ever has been—a statement true of both the World Wide Web and the Weird Worcester Web we all hold dear.

McNeil is an author, journalist, internet historian and native daughter of Mean Worcester (Brockton). She joins us to break down how a community such as ours can steel ourselves against enshittifications future while correcting the enshittifications past.

McNeil is the author of two books: the internet history Lurking and the near future sci-fi novel Wrong Way. You won’t regret reading either, trust me. You can buy them through this outlet’s new Bookshop.org online store (a feature of that site Joanne tipped me off to when I asked her what links to use for her books.) Turns out, we get a small percentage from Bookshop for every book sold through our page. So I made a page! Go to our new store and buy baby buy and put some hard-earned Internet Cash into the pockets of both Joanne and the Worcester Sucks team.

Also: Joanne’s Bluesky piece in Filmmaker and the Nieman Lab piece on journalism predictions for 2025 and her author page with links to many more of her writings.

Other stuff:

Cory Doctorow explains “enshittification”

Woo Havurah Purim Spectacular! 3/15 7PM Hotel Vernon

Sample post of Vermont’s Front Porch Forum

Canadian Bacon Trailer

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Today we have on a very special guest: Cayden Davis, a new and exciting candidate for at-large city council. Cayden’s a Main South resident, a public health professional, trans and proud of it! You may have seen him at the mic at City Council recently, letting rip some absolute public comment heaters. Davis came to city politics via the queer coalition that organized in opposition to the transphobia in city hall, and his campaign is a way of extending that enthusiasm and solidarity on to the November election. Hell yeah.

Follow Cayden’s campaign: On Instagram, on Twitter, on Facebook and most importantly, on Act Blue, where you can send him a few crucially needed bucks (I sent $20 myself, can I get a match?). Volunteer sign-up form as well.

Before we get to Davis (interview starts at the 24:45), we go over the state of the race so far, working off this list of paper pullers I got from the clerk yesterday.

Far from a complete list, of course. Potential candidates have a few months to pull papers. They have until May 6 to return their papers with the requisite signatures.

After the interview (around the 1:20 mark), we talk about an emerging news item: City Manager Eric Batista’s decision to hire Tamara Lundi, a woman who left her role as president of Community Health Link in 2023 under um… interesting circumstances.

Apropos of nothing here’s the the tip line: 508-556-1017.

Other links:

“How embarassing to be the Worcester city council,” my 2022 story about Candy Mero-Carlson and Phil Palmieri’s weird East Side feud.

And some late breaking news: Jermoh Kamara, former school committee member, has pulled papers for at-large council! Good stuff.

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After months of irregular and asymmetrical city council meetings Joe & Co finally got that which they desired on Tuesday: a quote unquote normal meeting. We go over the dominant themes of this business-as-usual six hour affair, including tax debt labor camps for senior citizens and a grand collusion of the city council and the Church of Scientology, according to a live streamer who wants recall elections for Worcester police officers (hell yeah). Oh and we talk about a ton of cool events coming up. 

TIP LINE: (508) 556-1017‬

Woo Havurah Purim Spectacular! 3/15 7PM Hotel Vernon 

Worcester Railers playing as the Monkey Wrenches

Worcester Power Building Summit

Enri Marini’s Council livestream

Council Rule 43: Disruption of meetings

Senior tax workoff application and FAQ

Camping with Steve

Cruising the Cut

Garbage Time

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What do '78 San Fran and '25 Worcester have in common? Quite a bit, turns out. We bring on historian Michael Stewart Foley to talk about his book Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, a history of the Dead Kennedys record by the same name and the context in which that work of art / protest document was birthed: San Francisco, 1978. After the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, newly sworn in Mayor Dianne Feinstein ushered in a wretched era of city governance built on an axis of neoliberal evils: the real estate industry, the police, and the nascent culture war affectations of the cranks—all set on destroying the city’s sense of self. And then there was Jello Biafra, a 20-year-old punk running for mayor and writing some of the best punk rock songs of all time.

This is a really fun interview about a great book. There is a lot to learn about Worcester in what San Fran wrought onto the world in the moment that Dead Kennedys were writing the songs that became Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. Foley’s a relatively new resident of the Worcester area, so of course we ask him the requisit question: whaddaya think?

Foley’s book on Dead Kennedys and author page his Farm Aid “Against The Grain” podcast

Other links:

RE/Search Publications

Survival Research Laboratories

TrueAnon Zizian Cult Ep

The NYT GitMo protest pic

508: A Show About Worcester YouTube archive

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Clip show! We pull out some choice moments from the public comment section of the city council meeting Tuesday. From the hours and hours of impassioned testimony that preceded the council’s very weak move: voting 9-2 to support a symbolic statement of solidarity with the trans community, and also voting 7-4 against an investigation into transphobic comments made by a sitting city councilor. Couldn’t have done a better job of showing the public you don’t mean it.

Like every meeting, the council is mostly useless and it is the people who show up to speak that matter. Thank you to everyone who spoke. There were many many fantastic comments we couldn’t get to.

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Shrewsbury native Jim Polito on Fox News

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