[Breaking in Chicago]: 6 members of JVP Chicago started an indefinite hunger strike, demanding food be let into Gaza & public officials use any power they can to make it happen. In These Times columnist Eman Abdelhadi was asked to speak. She said... inthesetimes.com/article/hunger…

“Queer people know what it means to struggle against the government, know what it means to struggle against the status quo. And, most importantly, we’re not as easily controlled…” - Abby Stein - 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤂𐤉𐤋 𐤇𐤅𐤄 𐤔𐤈𐤉𐤉𐤍 therealnews.com/transgender-ra…

"In some ways, "Next Year in Jerusalem" is an anti-Zionist phrase..." Yup, I said what I said 🤷‍♀️ Listen for more. Interview I did with The Real News, about Zionism, Palestine, growing up Hasidic, intersectionality, LGBTQ and trans rights, and more: therealnews.com/transgender-ra…

"Stop bombing Iran now!" Earlier today, Baltimoreans staged a demonstration at Druid Hill Park, where the #Afram festival was taking place, to protest the Donald J. Trump administration’s illegal bombing of Iran. "They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor"

🚨 BREAKING: Over 9k City workers STRIKE in #philadelphia at midnight, July 1. "There’s something wrong when a lot of our men and women are essentially the working poor inside this city," AFSCME District Council 33 president Greg Boulware tells Maximillian Alvarez

Gratitude to The Debt Collective 🟥 members and allies (esp ADAPT) who worked to stop this lethal bill. I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.

LABOR LOVES COOL JAMES! inquirer.com/news/ll-cool-j…

🚨 SUSPECTED SABOTAGE OF THE HANDALA HOURS BEFORE LAUNCH TO GAZA Urgent Call for Accountability and Safe Passage Just hours before departure, the #Handala faced two alarming incidents: a rope wrapped around the propeller and a delivery labeled as water that contained a

At our #NOLSW2025NJC, we were inspired and mobilized by Maximillian Alvarez calling on us to defend the working class and combat fascism not just our workplaces but also in our communities and world. We must enact the final words of Joe Hill, and our theme, “DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!”

Maximillian Alvarez left NOLSW/ UAW Local 2320 members with a warning cry: what good is a CBA or the NLRA if oligarchs have stolen the futures from the working class? much gratitude for the powerful words, max❗️

"Supporting AMAZON is supporting GENOCIDE": Christian Smalls speaks w/ Maximillian Alvarez from on board the Freedom Flotilla Coalition about how workers' fight against Amazon is connected to the fight to stop Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion…This isn’t just about fighting for better wages and working conditions…This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?” Maximillian Alvarez @ NOLSW/ UAW Local 2320 national convention therealnews.com/uaw-what-good-…

Must-listen/must-read of the weekend (brought to you by unions!): take the title “What Good Is a Union in Hell?” as a sequel to Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which Maximillian Alvarez explicitly references)!

We were honored and moved by Maximillian Alvarez’s words at our NJC. Be sure to check them out!!

“What good is a union in Hell? How much can an organization of the dawned do in a future no one wants to live in?” Maximillian Alvarez The Real News therealnews.com/uaw-what-good-…

"Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison therealnews.com/prison-labor-m…

It's not clear exactly what kind of organizing can stop the genocide in Gaza. But there's a public finance campaign that I think is really promising and it hasn't gotten a lot of coverage.🧵

🚨 Gaza journalist’s URGENT MESSAGE: ‘We need to eat! We need this war to stop!’ In this testimony video sent to us over WhatsApp, Palestinian journalist & TRNN contributor Ruwaida Amer describes the inhumane nightmare that is unfolding in Gaza. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE!

a week since our union convened and we are still thinking of the powerful message l class-war correspondent, Maximillian Alvarez left NOLSW/ UAW Local 2320 members: what good is a union hell? therealnews.com/uaw-what-good-…