We talk to Hamilton Nolan, labor reporter for In These Times, about reporting on the Trump  re-election campaign during a pandemic and seeing up close the rotting core of America.

Additional links/info below...

• Hamilton's author page and Twitter page
• Hamilton Nolan, In These Times, "Risking Your Life For a Trump Rally Means There's Nothing Left to Lose"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Edith Frost, "Temporary Loan"

We're back with another installment of our ongoing series Working-Class Politics, where we talk to working-class folks and advocates who are running for office. We sit down with two members of California's Labor Slate, Eduardo Torres (running for Ambrose Recreation and Parks Board) and Gaelan Ash (communications director for Labor Slate).

Additional links/info below...

• Labor Slate's website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• Eduardo's candidate page 
• Hamilton Nolan, In These Times, "In California, a “Labor Slate” Aims to Redefine the Relationship Between Unions and Politics"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

Everyone who is a worker or who cares about workers should pay attention to Prop 22 in California and understand the potentially devastating impact it could have. Professor Veena Dubal joins us on the show to talk about why. 

Additional links/info below...

• Veena's faculty page and Twitter page
• Sarah Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business, "The $185 Million Campaign to Keep Uber and Lyft Drivers as Contractors in California"
• Alexander Sammon, The American Prospect, "How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws"
• Edward Ongweso Jr., Vice, "Uber, Lyft Give California GOP Millions While Fighting Driver Reclassification"
• Veena Dubal, Dissent, "Digital Piecework"
• Veena Dubal, Berkley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, "The Drive to Precarity: A Political History of Work, Regulation, & Labor Advocacy in San Francisco's Taxi & Uber Economies"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

We talk with Amanda Yee for this urgent mini-cast on the deliberate and terrifying persecution of leftist organizers and activists by the state, including members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in Denver.  

Additional links/info below...

• Amanda's Twitter page
• PSL website, Twitter page, and Facebook page 
• PSL Legal Fund: Donate to the legal and political support campaign for arrested Denver organizers 
• PSL Petition: Drop All the Charges on Anti-Racist Organizers in the Denver Area! 
• PSL Solidarity Statement: Sign-On Statement: Drop the Charges on Denver Anti-Racist Organizers 
• Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, "Protesters, Demonstration Leaders Arrested in Connection to Rallies in Aurora"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "The Whimper of Democracy"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "A Show Trial That No One Watched"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

We've remastered our Labor Day special from Season One and are re-releasing it for all our new listeners. In this episode, we talk to LaDonna Brave Bull Allard of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We talk about LaDonna's life, the #NoDAPL movement and the erasure of Native peoples, and about learning ways of living with the land. 

Additional links/info below...

• Sacred Stone Village Facebook page 
• Sacred Stone Camp Facebook page 
• Wisdom of the Elders, “Turtle Island Storyteller, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard” 
• Democracy Now!, “Standing Rock Sioux Historian: Dakota Access Co. Attack Comes on Anniversary of Whitestone Massacre” 
• Democracy Now!, “‘Is This America?’ Co-Founder of Sacred Stone Camp Recalls Dog Attack on Native Americans” 
• Water Protector Legal Collective
• #NoDAPL Archive 
• Standing Rock Syllabus 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• King Kong Ding Dong, “Distant Drums”

We close out Season Three of Working People with a critical discussion about why cops have no place in the labor movement and about the rank-and-file push from groups like No Cop Unions (AFL-CIO) and Drop the Cops (SEIU) to get them out. Featuring Kim Kelly, Halimat Alawode, & Julia Wallace.

Additional links/info below...

• No Cop Unions (AFL-CIO) website and Twitter page
• SEIU Drop the Cops Linktree and Twitter page
• SEIU Drop the Cops "Labor Stands Against the Cops" event page 
• Kim Kelly Twitter page
• Halimat Alawode Twitter page
• Julia Wallace Twitter page
• Kim Kelly, The New Republic, "No More Cop Unions" 
• Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, "Police Unions: What to Know and Why They Don’t Belong in the Labor Movement"
• Kim Kelly, The Baffler, "Rank-and-File Revolt"
• Hamilton Nolan, The Guardian, "It's Time to Kick Police Unions Out of the Labor Movement. They Aren't Allies"
• Paul Clark, The Conversation, "Why Police Unions Are not Part of the American Labor Movement"
• Louis Casiano, The Orange County Register, "Union Law Firm’s Private Detective Gets 1 Year in Jail in Scheme to Set up Costa Mesa Councilmen"
• Greg Coy, Fox Memphis, "Activists Find Camera Inside Mysterious Box on Power Pole Near Union Organizer’s Home"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Pete Seeger, "Which Side Are You On?"

UPDATE: We were notified by Libsyn (the service where we host our podcast) that No Evil Foods demanded to have our last episode removed due to our use of an "unauthorized recording" from the union-busting captive audience meetings they subjected their workers to. We are re-uploading the episode with an intro/update from Max. You can still listen to the recordings in question here: http://andrew-miller.com/blog/2020/why-doesnt-no-evil-foods-want-you-to-hear-this/

We talk to Jon, Meagan, Josh, and Cortne, four former employees at No Evil Foods, a vegan plant-based meat producer in North Carolina that made headlines over the past year with its union-busting tactics. We talk about the failed unionization drive, the captive-audience meetings management held, and about companies like NEF using "progressive" branding to mask their anti-union practices.

Additional links/info below...

• Mo Evil Foods website and Twitter page
• Petition: Union for No Evil Foods 
• Andrew Miller, The Industrial Worker, "Mo' Evil Foods"
• Paul Blest, The Appeal, "A Vegan Meat Company Purged Its Pro-Labor Employees. Workers Say an Anti-Union Drive Prompted the Firings"
• Lauren Kaori Gurley, Vice, "Audio: No Evil Foods, a Faux Leftist Vegan-Meat Company, Busts Union Drive"
• Kim Kelly, The Baffler, "The New Face of Union Busting"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Audio Clips provided by Andrew Miller: http://andrew-miller.com/blog/2020/why-doesnt-no-evil-foods-want-you-to-hear-this/
• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Gumbel, "Killing Bosses"

We talk to Jon, Meagan, Josh, and Cortne, four former employees at No Evil Foods, a vegan plant-based meat producer in North Carolina that made headlines over the past year with its union-busting tactics. We talk about the failed unionization drive, the captive-audience meetings management held, and about companies like NEF using "progressive" branding to mask their anti-union practices.

Additional links/info below...

• Mo Evil Foods website and Twitter page
• Petition: Union for No Evil Foods 
• Andrew Miller, The Industrial Worker, "Mo' Evil Foods"
• Paul Blest, The Appeal, "A Vegan Meat Company Purged Its Pro-Labor Employees. Workers Say an Anti-Union Drive Prompted the Firings"
• Lauren Kaori Gurley, Vice, "Audio: No Evil Foods, a Faux Leftist Vegan-Meat Company, Busts Union Drive"
• Kim Kelly, The Baffler, "The New Face of Union Busting"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Audio Clips provided by Andrew Miller: http://andrew-miller.com/blog/2020/why-doesnt-no-evil-foods-want-you-to-hear-this/
• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Gumbel, "Killing Bosses"

We talk to Mel Buer (Protean Magazine), Gabby (DefendPDX), and Garrison Davis, three independent journalists who have been on the front lines this summer covering the anti-police protests in Minneapolis, Portland, and Omaha. We talk about how events have unfolded from their vantage point, the hazards of doing this vital work, and about the importance of anticapitalist media. 

Additional links/info below...

• Mel's Twitter page and Patreon; Protean Magazine's website and Twitter page
• Gabby's Twitter page; DefendPDX's website and Twitter page
• Garrison's Twitter page and YouTube channel

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Cletus Got Shot, "Take Out the Fascists"

We talk to writer, organizer, and adjunct lecturer Maggie Levantovskaya about immigrating from the Soviet Union, navigating class differences in the U.S., and about how so many higher education professionals have become gig workers. 

Additional links/info below...

• Maggie's website and Twitter page
• Maggie Levantovskaya, LitHub, "On Flannery O'Connor's Chronic Illness ... and Chronic Racism"
• Maggie Levantovskaya, Chronicle Review, "Faculty Are Not Cannon Fodder"
• Maggie Levantovskaya, The Startup, "This Is Your Fight"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "Contingent No More"
• Left Anchor, "Episode 76 UNLOCKED - Maximillian Alvarez on the Politics of Higher Ed"
• Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott, Johns Hopkins University Press, The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Nicolas Falcon, "Big, Big Boss"