labor

Music, mobilizing, and making a living on a living planet
Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington.

Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington. (Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 175623)

Pace Schwarz
Georgetown University
I interview labor and environmental activist Joe Uehlein about the historic intersections between those two activist movements and how he tells those stories in his music.
Farmworker freedom and the agricultural reforms we're forgetting
Immokalee worker holding a bucket

Workers carry buckets of produce on their shoulders. (Fair Food Program)

Matilda Kreider
George Washington University
Farmworkers have suffered for too long as the backbone of an agricultural system that ignores them. It's time to include them in our debates about sustainable agriculture.