San Francisco Public Radio, KQED’s Forum, Friday, September 4, 2017
Host Mina Kim interviewed me for one-hour Friday morning on Forum. Activist Jane McAlevey: Reinventing the Labor Movement for ‘A New Gilded Age’ Read More
Tips from history in an age of Trump, protests
Katherine Whittemore, a Boston Globe correspondent, recommends No Shortcuts as follow up to the national Women’s March. Speaking of which, let’s turn to “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age” (Oxford 2016). “I read it on a weekend so was extra struck by how we blithely say TGIF, forgetting that the labor movement fought decades for the concept of the weekend, as author Janet McAlevey reminds. Read More
Nation Magazine Review’s No Shortcuts, March 8, 2017
As an author, I appreciate anytime someone makes the time to review my book. But this review, by Rich Yeselson, seems seriously gender biased. I think that means sexist. While Yeselson does in fact suggest people buy and read my book, which is great (thanks Rich), and he doesn’t actually say that about the two other books, he seems to suggest that women don’t have big ideas, and, he fails to mention any of my actual work accomplishments. Read More
KPFA’s Against the Grain, March 31st, 2017
Sasha Lilly had a amazing list of several pages of excellent questions. I think we got through the first half of the first page. She was really focused on my favorite subject, strategy! Player Read More
KPFA’s Sunday Show, April 30th, 2017
More recent KPFA Host Vilma V—a terrific addition to the station—digs into an hour-long discussion on a recent April morning. Player Read More