by Judy Asman | Aug 24, 2021 | Articles
By Judy Asman As with many organizers drawn to work with the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), Pamela Tau Lee saw first-hand the workplace cruelties and injustices of her ancestors and throughout the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities when...
by Judy Asman | May 17, 2021 | Articles
Graphic: @ruaap, see the tweet » Members of Rutgers American Association of University Professors – American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) are joining with student allies in celebrating a vote to divest from fossil fuels by the Rutgers Board of Governors and...
by Judy Asman | May 17, 2021 | Articles
Graphic: Sierra Club. Anyone interested in how to address the concerns of both labor and environmentalists in upcoming legislation should take a look at the new Sierra Club report “How to Build Back Better: A 10-year Plan for Economic Renewal.” Although the Sierra...
by Judy Asman | May 17, 2021 | Articles
How do we spread the word about what it will take to have an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the crises of climate, jobs, healthcare, racism and democracy that it has so aggravated? Members of New York’s large DC37 union have an innovative way: The...
by Judy Asman | May 17, 2021 | Articles
Video: “How Appalachia’s shale gas boom became an economic bust,” by Ohio River Valley Institute. Over the past decade, many communities, especially impoverished rural communities in Appalachia, have been pitched the idea that extracting natural gas...