Our newest book is out now! Out of the Lab, Into the Streets tells the story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of US higher education at the University of California in 2022. Available now in the US and for preorder elsewhere

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Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency — Interrupting Criminalization

The Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency will award $2,500 grants to 14 artists. Creative projects can take place between July to Dec, 2026. Applications are due by May 11. Help us to spread the word to young artists (ages 16-24) impacted by the criminal punishment system.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

SEIU 99 saying they reached a deal to avert a strike in LA.

LAUSD committed to 24% wage increase & minimum hours for part-time workers

📢 @utlanow.bsky.social's tentative agreement includes landmark wins for the salary scales, Special Education, student support staffing and more! ⁠

Members: check your email to read the summary of all wins.

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

BREAKING: JURY FINDS PROFESSOR CARAVELLO NOT GUILTY!

While some justice was restored by the jury’s decision, the beatings, the surveillance, and the trauma that John and others across the state and nation have had to endure cannot be ignored. #ICEOUT

California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases—barely noticeable to a consumer. It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers.
capitalandmain.com/despite-apoc...

headline: gen z doesn't want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it's reshaping the entire workforce.

This is propaganda.

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Save Hollywood It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster

www.404media.co/disneys-open...

I am about 40 minutes in and I recommend this to every student, faculty member, and person who cares about the future of higher ed

The People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to Write Clean, precise prose is now a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price.

19th-century counterfeiters of paper money made their most reliable profits selling counterfeit detectors.

Legitimization of their counterfeits was merely a serendity.

They made legal revenue selling a supposed solution to the problems their own illegality created.

Detection is a humbug.

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

NYU Faculty Strike as Union and University Reach Impasse on Wages More than 900 non-tenure track NYU professors went on strike on Monday morning, as students returned from spring break.

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Screenshot showing the Climate Shift Index from Climate Central for March 19, 2026. There is a change in likelihood of CSI 5 across nearly the entire Western USA.

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered.

The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection.

Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Heads up movement-based researchers. Applications for the UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference open April 1. Great opportunity to hone skills and network with folks who leverage research for worker justice

"AI is not simply a discursive formation that stands as a ‘common sense’ foregone conclusion, it also obfuscates large-scale, transnational coordination of resources, labor & people who make up the infrastructures that are required for artificial intelligence." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

The number of #Parkland survivors sharing that they have survived yet another shooting at #FSU breaks my heart to the core.

Only in America.

As we await verified reports of the tragedy at Florida State, let’s hold the entire community in our thoughts.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Solidarity with Sesame Workers The recent unjust layoffs of dedicated Sesame Workshop workers following their announcement to form a union with OPEIU Local 153 contradicts the core principles of the community that Sesame Street cla...

S is for SOLIDARITY—let’s help the Sesame Street workers as they fight the expropriation of kid’s media! Sign the below and spread the word! @kimkelly.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social

actionnetwork.org/letters/soli...

Potential revised Muslim Ban coming. @aaup.bsky.social

An SBWU ally holds up a sign that says "Strong Coffee - Strong Union"

ALLIES: You may have heard about stores hosting "sip-ins" to show union solidarity with baristas.

Now, we're asking for your help in spreading the sip-in love to your communities from March 8th-11th!

Learn more + Sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The people that get paid off indirect funds are the secretaries, maintenance workers, security guards, HVAC techs etc. It’s the pool of money that pays for the blue collar stuff, and that’s who they will have to lay off.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.