Alex Press

Starbucks Workers Strike Against Foot-Dragging in Bargaining After years of scorched-earth union-busting and stonewalling tactics by their bosses, Starbucks workers are trying to get their union drive and contract negotiations unstuck through a nationwide strike.

After years of scorched-earth union-busting and stonewalling tactics by their bosses, Starbucks workers are trying to get their union drive and contract negotiations unstuck through a nationwide strike.

Starbucks Workers Strike Against Foot-Dragging in Bargaining After years of scorched-earth union-busting and stonewalling tactics by their bosses, Starbucks workers are trying to get their union drive and contract negotiations unstuck through a nationwide strik...

I wrote about the @sbworkersunited.org strike for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Starbucks Workers Strike Against Foot-Dragging in Bargaining After years of scorched-earth union-busting and stonewalling tactics by their bosses, Starbucks workers are trying to get their union drive and contract negotiations unstuck through a nationwide strik...

I wrote about the @sbworkersunited.org strike for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

I only go to NYC under duress now but this article made me smile so much. everyone in it deserves the world.

Out After Dark With Late-Night Workers and Zohran Mamdani New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently spent the night reaching out to workers in Queens who keep the city moving after most New Yorkers are asleep. We tagged along.

I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.

Out After Dark With Late-Night Workers and Zohran Mamdani New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently spent the night reaching out to workers in Queens who keep the city moving after most New Yorkers are asleep. We tagged along.

"Watching Zohran late Thursday night, as I considered the obstacles ahead, I couldn’t help but be jolted back into the present by the sheer improbability of what I was witnessing" – @alexnpress.bsky.social

“Too many union leaders rely on staying in the good graces of Democratic Party leadership to maintain power because it’s easier than building enough muscle and engagement among rank-and-file members to enforce power in the old-fashioned way: through collective action.”

This long-ish piece is a good analysis of what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social the candidate is facing now and potentially, as the next Mayor of NYC. Well done!

thanks!

Out After Dark With Late-Night Workers and Zohran Mamdani New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently spent the night reaching out to workers in Queens who keep the city moving after most New Yorkers are asleep. We tagged along.

I joined @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as he took his campaign to the people who keep New York running while the rest of us sleep, and considered what his mayoralty would (will??) actually look like.

Alex Colston of @dropsitenews.com is back in New York along with eight other of the US flotilla participants 👍

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proud of my friend Colston and everybody else who took part in the flotilla and hope they are released soon and unharmed. also he was editing pieces from the boat right up until the Israelis kidnapped him 👑

Kaleb's death has caved in my hope. The more shock I see people express at his poverty, the more clear it is that he was killed by this country, by the wealthy few, starved, for the threat of his words.

His shadow goes on for days and days.

thank you

Kaleb Horton Writing can be beautiful.

Amazing work here by @alexnpress.bsky.social eulogizing Kaleb Horton and gathering his writing in one easy to locate place. If any indie publishers want to do an edition of his work, I’d volunteer time to see it done. thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-hort...

Kaleb Horton Writing can be beautiful.

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

it’s crazy how good it is

Netanyahu Comes to Town and So Does The Hague Group What happened to law and order??

think Kaleb would’ve enjoyed that he follows a dispatch from a night with the president of Colombia

Kaleb Horton Writing can be beautiful.

"Like a character from an earlier time, too cool for today. As it turns out, that was true: he couldn’t make a living at writing, not in a world where being a genius makes you unemployable." thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

"Pick an art or science: odds are, the greatest practitioner of it, the biggest talent, is instead doing something else because they need the money. So we mostly get the work of people who had enough of a cushion to do what they wanted."

Kaleb Horton Writing can be beautiful.

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

bluesky, an alien and maybe even hostile parallel universe

typo in this post is not ideal but that’s ok…

The Gaza Biennale "Artwork in displaced form" comes to New York

hello! I made a substack out as a way to stay in touch without incessantly posting on social media. here’s a dispatch from last night’s opening of the Gaza Biennale in New York thealexpress.substack.com/p/the-gaza-b...

RLS-NYC joined @dissentmag.bsky.social at @bookculture.com for a powerful conversation on union democracy & immigrant labor organizing. Moderated by Dissent co-editor Natasha Lewis, the talk featured Jacobin labor reporter @alexnpress.bsky.social and New Yorker contributing writer E. Tammy Kim.

New Yorkers👇

this bill passed in the state senate on Friday, meaning we just need it to be put to a vote in the assembly this week. please take one minute to call Heastie and urge him to do that, it is so important. thank you!

Alex is so incredible and this bill is going to help protect so many people with noncarceral solutions to discourage stalking. Please be vocal in your support of this bill wherever you live, but especially if you're in NY!