Baby giraffe, Oakland Zoo!

NEW PUBLICATION in NatureSustainability:

Alexandros Kentikelenis and I argue that if green industrial policies are not globalized thru technology transfers to the Global South, the hopes of this policy approach for both climate and development are likely to be dashed.

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On eve of potential strike, UAW announces it’s reached a tentative contract deal covering 7,300 Daimler Truck workers, including “raises of more than 25%, the end of wage tiers, and the introduction profit-sharing and Cost-of-Living (COLA)”

Hottest ticket in town!

This, from Greg Casar, is the future of how Democrats will talk about Israel and Palestine

Gov Kay Ivey literally calling her own constituents who work at Mercedes “leeches” for having the audacity to fight for a better life for themselves, their families and their communities. Shameful.

BREAKING: Most of Alabama supports unionizing autoworkers.

Our new poll finds that 52% of Alabamians support unionizing autoworkers while just 21% are opposed.

Mercedes Alabama workers begin voting to unionize with the UAW on May 13th.
substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-alabama…

Labour have just announced that their upcoming manifesto will pledge to renationalise UK railways, bringing them back into public ownership after nearly thirty years of privatisation.

Here’s why that’s a good thing — and why such measures should be expanded across energy,…

At #NewCommonSense , Chris Murphy 🟧 interviewed by Rana Foroohar explores the cultural, spiritual and economic dimensions of the new political economy. Hewlett Foundation

For the first panel of #NewCommonSense , Peter S. Goodman of The New York Times and Skanda Amarnath of Employ America join Rana Foroohar to discuss the U.S. economy, how economists’ and pundits' predictions for a post-pandemic economy played out, ongoing misconceptions, and what’s next.

Great panel with David Singh Grewal, Gary Gerstle, and Farah Stockman at the Hewlett Foundation #NewCommonSense conference. Debating the contours of the emerging global new order, post neoliberalism, and democracy.

New Poll: Alabama Strongly Supports Unionizing Mercedes Workers.

72 percent of Alabamians said they believe ⁦UAW⁩ representation will deliver higher wages and salaries to workers. substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-alabama…

What? Terrible

Chief economist position open at Global Fund for a New Economy. bit.ly/4akiGSB

If you aren't lucky enough to spend lots of time with college students, maybe you don't know how earnest, smart, and resolute they are. I can tell you that I, for one, find hope every day I spend with them. They're inheriting the problems of the world. They deserve respect.

We cannot successfully engage with people whose inner lives we do not even try to understand.

And engaging with people is the heart of any successful politics.

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Continue the struggle!!! Sign up for the course I developed and have, w/ about 20 GREAT organizers, taught to 40,000 workers in 111 countries. The WORK must go on! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Organizing for Power Starts May 7th--groups of 10 or more!!! Go, fight and WIN! 🩶

This is a really big deal—Biden administration just published a rule giving new overtime protections to 4.3 million workers! epi.org/press/epi-pres…

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