From May 8-11, 2019, Manitoba’s unions hosted the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference: inviting union members, labour activists and leaders from across Canada to reflect on the history of the general strike, and apply its lessons to the present and future of the labour movement. This podcast features a roundtable of speakers, including Jane McAlevey. Read More
Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey about organizing for power in the New Gilded Age. Read More
Daniel Denvir sat down with Jane for a whopping 2-hour conversation. The results were heavily blogged, including Naomi Klein tweeting that “everyone should listen to this interview!” Read More
According to longtime environmental and labor organizer Jane McAlevey, this recent wave of teacher strikes is also the perfect example of how change happens. It begins by developing a deep understanding of power, which then evolves into building small campaigns within a larger struggle to achieve measurable goals — all the while engaging in deep listening across differences, instead of self-selecting into single-minded silos. Read More
New interview, in German, in one of Germany’s national daily newspapers, called Taz. The smart interviewer began the interview by asking me is the kind of “organizing” Obama did the same kind of organizing that I discuss! Heck no. And we went from there, discussing a wide range of topics. Read More