"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together."
My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.
Want to defeat a data center in your area?
I interviewed three local organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona on how they built movements against data centers in their communities. Lots of very concrete lessons and advice.
For @truthout.org.
I interviewed Bill Hartung about his long history researching militarism and his reflections on the links between research and organizing, past and present.
Part of an ongoing @mapthepower.bsky.social series on the history of movement power research.
NEW: We interviewed author Bill Hartung on his long history researching the military-industrial complex and the critical connections between research and organizing against militarism.
Part of our ongoing series on the history of movement power research.
If WNY officials give $1.44 billion in public subsidies to a data center that almost nobody wants, people should at least know that the data center's owner will be a huge, Epstein-tied private equity firm led by megabillionaire Marc Rowan.
For @truthout.org.
I wrote about the massive private equity firm and megabillionaire CEO behind the proposed STAMP data center complex in Western NY. From Epstein, to Trump attacks on higher ed, to Gaza -- the power behind this data center stretches well beyond WNY
For @truthout.org.
Residents in Western New York are opposing a data center backed by an Epstein-tied private equity firm.
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Michael Locker speaks at length about his long movement career, reflecting on the lessons and legacies of power research since the 1960s in this interview with @derekseidman.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/02/powe...
Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.
Good coverage of how even small towns are coming out in huge numbers to fight data centers. This time in DeForest, Wisconsin. @derekseidman.bsky.social reports (and provides an explainer of private equity's role in the whole mess, too).
Wall Street is helping to drive the data center boom. I wrote about how one community in Wisconsin has come together to take on a data center proposed by QTS, owned by Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm.
For @truthout.org.
My latest for @truthout.org mapping out the Trump-tied megabillionaire consortium that will own and operate the new US TikTok.
NEW: “If we really want to change things… this means confronting the power structure that controls and benefits most from the current system.”
Check out our deep-dive interview with Mike Locker, a key figure in the rise of movement power research since the 1960s.
I did some deep mapping of the megabillionaire consortium that will own and manage the new US TikTok spinoff. It's as bad as you might think. MAGA-aligned tech oligarchs now own all major US social media. For @truthout.org.
Not just Larry Ellison—pro-Trump billionaire Jeff Yass is set to profit from the new U.S. TikTok on two sides. Also in the new ownership consortium: Emirati state-owned firm MGX, and Jared Kushner's circle. By @derekseidman.bsky.social:
New message up on Kenmore Ave in Buffalo.
Read every word of this amazing interview on the organizing and resistance in Minneapolis.
Now's the time to read this @mapthepower.bsky.social guide on how to research the corporate enablers of ICE.
In Buffalo.
Want to know how to research the corporations collaborating with ICE?
My recent piece with @truthout.org walks you through six steps to understand where to push to weaken ICE's corporate power:
![Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE, By Lauren Parker. Communities are forming campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE and weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power. White text on a black background. The background fades into an image of protesters standing behind a long banner that they are holding up at the front of a conference room. The banner reads, “Stop Avelo, Abolish ICE,” and shows the image of a woman with a baby and a blue collar worker with his fist up, a monarch butterfly is pictured on either side of these two characters. The bottom left side of the graphic reads, Read the full story at: littlesis.org/research/news/ [the link is in all lower case letters]. The bottom right side of the graphic shows the LittleSis logo in white.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eymmxnashedpt6yjtnqj6bju/bafkreifmyx4gevd75coaw4q6pwpbvfgu7wfpynrdmum4ym6dbtt3ldiybm)
Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE, By Lauren Parker. Communities are forming campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE and weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power. White text on a black background. The background fades into an image of protesters standing behind a long banner that they are holding up at the front of a conference room. The banner reads, “Stop Avelo, Abolish ICE,” and shows the image of a woman with a baby and a blue collar worker with his fist up, a monarch butterfly is pictured on either side of these two characters. The bottom left side of the graphic reads, Read the full story at: littlesis.org/research/news/ [the link is in all lower case letters]. The bottom right side of the graphic shows the LittleSis logo in white.
Check out our latest post: Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE
We briefly highlight a few campaigns that are targeting ICE’s corporate collaborators and provide a guide on how you can research these corporations.
littlesis.org/news/six-ste...
"Trump wants us to hang our heads and give up, but that’s not happening."
New @truthout.org roundtable with immigrant rights and farmworker organizers from AZ, FL + VT who I interviewed in late 2024 after Trump's reelection — taking stock of past year: horrors, heartbreak, resistance, resolve.
Avelo Airlines’ decision to drop its ICE contract shows that immigration enforcement isn’t inevitable; when communities organize, target corporate complicity, and refuse to normalize deportations, even powerful agencies can be forced to back down.
"The Trump administration’s barefaced imperial grab for Venezuela’s oil... is looking to corporate allies like Chevron, which could stand to benefit handsomely from his administration’s action — though this is far from guaranteed."
For @truthout.org.
Big Oil companies are governed by boards of directors from major corporations.
We mapped out some of the current and recent past corporate ties of board directors at Chevron.
"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt. This is a chance to show people that socialism can work."
Love to wake up and read @leemzee.bsky.social in @truthout.org with @derekseidman.bsky.social
Fracking companies are salivating over the data center boom.
"The demand for power and for AI is like nothing I’ve ever seen.” --Halliburton CEO.
I wrote about it for @truthout.org.
Thank you @truthout.org for including us in this roundtable conversation about the need for Public Power!
truthout.org/articles/as-...
"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt... We’re reaching a crisis point."
New @truthout.org roundtable w/ organizers from Tucson + DC on the rising left movement for public ownership of utilities.
