Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 3

Three months ago, I turned 30 years old. A month before my 30th birthday, I ended my ten-year career as an external union organizer, ending my decade-long quest of long hours, long months, long years finding pissed off workers and leading them to fight for and win labor unions at their workplaces. The labor movement got me started young. When I think back to how my political journey all started, I see mental vignettes with sometimes incredible detail. In no particular order, I see a thousand “Occupy Los Angeles” protestors attempting to enter the city’s ports, up and clashing against … Continue reading Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 3

Proposition 22 & Its Discontents

Somehow in the years and years I’ve been writing Facebook rants about, like, my feelings or whatever, I’ve somehow managed to never write a Facebook rant about an actual ballot proposition. But we find ourselves in the most important election of our lifetimes, and time is of the essence… A spectre is haunting the working class — the spectre of Proposition 22. All the powers of the center-Left and Left have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: the Service Employees International Union, the Democratic Socialists of America, and even much of the Democratic Party (including Joe Biden), … Continue reading Proposition 22 & Its Discontents