Event • New Jersey

Laboring on the Labor Beat: Unions and 21st Century Journalism

I’m speaking at and helped organize a conference on labor journalism: covering labor and the labor of journalism, May 2, 202410:00am-7:00pm at Rutgers University. On the heels of the pandemic, the US has witnessed one of the most vibrant and militant phases of labor organizing in the last 50 years. New unionizing campaigns at companies […]

Past Appearances & Events

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Podcast: The Katie Halper Show

On today’s episode of the Katie Halper Show, we talk about Donald Trump’s disgusting immigration policy, which, scarily enough, isn’t that different from other Republicans’ policies. Is Canadian-born Alan Thicke what Lindsey Graham would call a “birth tourist”? And is his son Robin Thicke what a lot of Republicans would call an “anchor baby”?Plus, learn […]

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The Real News Network: Workers Are Fighting Back

I joined Jaisal Noor at The Real News Network to talk about theĀ  unprecedented challenges workers are facing now, and how they’re finding new ways to organize for basic protections during the coronavirus pandemic.

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National Conference on Media Reform: The Future of Journalism is…Comics?

Comics are used in a variety of ways. They have the ability to create worlds on a page; they cost less than a film or TV crew; and they blend storytelling with images seamlessly in a way that even the best photographs can’t do. This session, presented at the National Conference for Media Reform in […]

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Radio: This Is Hell

Obama’s incoherent Middle East / Moral panic in the 1980s / How to build a stadium / Politicians, not friends / Neoliberalism’s edge / Vaporware by gaslight.

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Radio: This is Hell

I joined This is Hell to talk aboutĀ the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising with a trip to Ireland, finds the ideas and ideals of the failed revolution still powerful, and still under attack by external forces – this time EU-imposed austerity policies and elite-driven privatization, and sees hopeful signs of an Irish left building […]

Event • Chicago, IL

People’s Summit 2016

I was a guest at the People’s Summit in June of 2016 to talk about media.