Category: Article
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Get off Twitter and get into the (online) streets
With the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 set to expire next month, Mary Jirmanus Saba and Zoey Thill, members of the People’s CDC, write about the role Twitter has played during the pandemic among public health and disability justice activists, and they argue in this piece for moving beyond the platform’s limitations to reclaim the…
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A French spring
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
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Intersectional organizing wall-to-wall at Rutgers
Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and AAUP-AFT leader Deepa Kumar about how the union united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the higher education labor movement.
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“We shut this place down because everybody walked out”
Tempest member Mel Bienenfeld interviewed with Rutgers workers Hank Kalet and Sebastian Leon about their historic strike, its methods, and its gains.
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Sudanese appeal for solidarity
In recognition of the urgency of the situation in Sudan and in internationalist solidarity, Tempest reprints two items published by the MENA Solidarity Network.
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The far right today
Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing, and the Left needs different tactics to combat each one.
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Justice for Joe Evica!
Ben Ratliffe reports on the firing of OPEIU Local 39 Chief Steward Joe Evica in retaliation for union activity during an ongoing contract fight with CUNA Mutual Group.
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“Trans bans” and “groomer panic”
Dean O’Possum situates the recent wave of anti-trans attacks in the context of a broader pattern of moral panics whipping up right-wing forces against trans people and the Left more broadly.
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Future on Fire
Tempest members Ricardo Gabriel and Nevena Pilipović-Wenglerinterviewed David Camfield about his newest book, Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.
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Yes, we do mean smash the state
Announcing a Tempest Collective event on Sunday, April 23 at 2 pm featuring Tempest Collective member brian bean on smashing the state.