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This event was co-sponsored with Left Voice, featuring the voices of rank-and-file workers.

For years we have been hearing about the possibility of a strike on the part of the Teamsters at UPS. Before the current contract expired on August 1, the union leadership around Sean O'Brien reached a deal with UPS, avoiding an imminent strike.

Speakers:

Joe Allen (9:50), author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of the United Parcel Service. Tempest.

Jess Leigh (19:52), UPS shop steward, Griffin, GA local.

Luigi Morris (26:34), UPS package-handler, local 804. Left Voice.

Dave Courtney Cox (48:00), package car driver and steward, local 728, Atlanta.

Chapters:

Emma from Left Voice (0:00)
Joe Allen (9:50)
Jess Leigh (19:52)
Luigi Morris (26:34)
Dave Courtney Cox (48:00)
Questions and Comments (58:00)

This event took place on August 12, 2023.

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Last year, the Supreme Court overruled the will of the majority and overturned Roe v. Wade, unleashing states across the country to impose bans and restrictions on abortion rights. Some states have defended the right with shield laws and even enshrined in their state constitutions, but in over half the country, abortion is either banned or under severe restriction and all but inaccessible. This panel of activists will talk about these conditions, efforts to defend rights, and ideas and strategies to mount a defense and a counter-offensive to win full reproductive justice.

Speakers:

Kenyatta Thomas (4:43) is the State Communications Strategist at Physicians for Reproductive Health, where they elevate the stories and expert voices of medical providers in the media. They began their career in comprehensive sex education advocacy with Teen Health Mississippi at 17 years old before branching out to the broader reproductive justice movement through work with Advocates for Youth, the National Network of Abortion Funds, and Reproduction. Kenyatta is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Camila Valle (14:25) is an editor, writer, translator, and member of NYC for Abortion Rights and the Editorial Board of Spectre Journal. Her translation of LASTESIS’s Set Fear on Fire is out now from Verso Books.

Jenny Brown (23:17) is a member of the National Women’s Liberation and assistant editor at Labor Notes. She is a co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America and author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work. Her latest book is Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now.

Nancy Welch (33:28) is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Vermont where she helped found the union representing full- and part-time faculty. Her latest book, Ten More Things About Us, a collection of stories about caregiving, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She is a member of Tempest and of the Upper Valley (Vermont and New Hampshire) Democratic Socialists of America and an activist in Upper Valley for Abortion Rights.

Facilitated by Mary Gen D. (0:00)

Chapters

Introductions with Mary Gen D. (0:00)
Kenyatta Thomas (4:43)
Camila Valle (14:25)
Jenny Brown (23:17)
Nancy Welch (33:28)

This event took place on May 28, 2023.

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Contemporary capitalism exploits and degrades human beings around the world, relying on the violent power of states to create profits, guarantee the functioning of markets, and cheapen labor through violence. There is no way to build a liberated future for all of us without overthrowing capitalism, and that will mean confronting and dismantling the capitalist state, its prisons, policing, borders, and military. It’s time we talk about smashing the state.

Speaker:

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist activist, writer, and speaker originally from North Carolina. He is one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine and a member of the Tempest Collective. His work has been published in Jacobin, Socialist Worker, Red Flag, International Viewpoint, Bel Ahmar (بالأحمر), Spring Magazine, Green Left Weekly, Chronique de Palestine, Agency, Viento Sur, and more.

Moderated by Shireen Akram-Boshar.

This event took place on April 23, 2023.

A link to brian's article on this topic in Tempest.

https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/01/revolution-means-smashing-the-state/

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9,000 Rutgers University faculty and workers are on strike! Tempest members visited the Rutgers Picket line today and took a couple of mini videos to spread the word and extend solidarity.

9,000 Rutgers University faculty and workers are on strike! Tempest members visited the Rutgers Picket line today and took a couple of mini videos to spread the word and extend solidarity. A victory for the striking Rutgers faculty, graduate workers, and adjuncts will be a victory for Rutgers students too.

Led by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the Republican Party has launched a reactionary attack on Black Studies and discussions of race and racism in schools, colleges, and universities. The attack has led to book bans and curriculum restrictions around the country. But students, parents, librarians, and educators are not taking this lying down and are organizing to oppose the censorship. This event has been endorsed by National Educators United.

Speakers:

Jesse Hagopian (4:08) is an ethnic studies teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle. He is a member of the Black Lives Matter at School national steering committee and co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School (Haymarket, 2020).

Daniel Martinez HoSang (19:50) teaches Ethnicity, Race and Migration and American Studies at Yale University and is the author of A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone (U. of California, 2021).

Phil Gasper (32:29) is a socialist and antiracist activist who has worked in higher education for over 40 years. He is currently a faculty member and a member of AFT Local 243 at Madison College in Wisconsin. Phil is co-editor of the independent socialist journal New Politics and a member of the Tempest Collective.

Facilitated by Kristen Godfrey (0:00)

Chapters:

Introduction by Kristen Godfrey (0:00)
Jesse Hagopian (4:08)
Daniel Martinez HoSang (19:50)
Phil Gasper (32:29)

This event took place on March 26, 2023.

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People joyfully sing together a slight variation of the song “This Little Light of Mine.”

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https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/03/jackson-heights-defends-drag-story-hour-nyc/

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Over the last several years, the labor struggle has dramatically increased. Strikes at Starbucks and the University of California garnered national news. Public approval for unions is at a historic high despite the low rate of unionization. New campaigns to organize have emerged in workplaces from Amazon to Trader Joe’s. Formations like UAWD have emerged to topple old failed leaders and attempt to pursue more militant strategies and tactics.

But the politicians and bosses remain intransigent. The Biden Administration intervened to block the railways’ strike at the end of last year. Bosses are unwilling to concede pay increases that keep pace with inflation. And a possible recession and increased unemployment threaten to undermine workers’ bargaining power.

This situation poses strategic and political questions for the labor movement. How can existing unions defend themselves against an unrelenting bosses’ offensive? How can new unions organize for better wages, working conditions, and social justice in the workplace? How can the labor movement break free of the business unionist strategy of labor/management cooperation and political reliance on the Democrats?

Join us for this panel of leading labor militants to debate and discuss which way forward for the labor movement.

Speakers:

Sheila Kulkarni (2:06), graduate student, United Auto Workers Local 2865, University of California striker
Sarah Beth Ryther (14:20), grocery store worker, employee organizer with Trader Joe’s United, the independent union formed for and by Trader Joe’s employees
Matt Weaver (22:22), carpenter, BMWED-IBT, Ohio Legislative Director, Railroad Workers United (RWU) Steering Committee
Elizabeth Lalasz (29:18), registered nurse, union steward, National Nurses United, Tempest Collective
(Organizations listed for identification purposes only.)

Facilitated by Hakan Yilmaz

Chapters:

Introductions (0:00)
Sheila Kulkarni (2:06)
Sarah Beth Ryther (14:20)
Matt Weaver (22:22)
Elizabeth Lalasz (29:18)

This event took place on February 12, 2023.

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