If our goal is a robust democracy and working-class power, the experiences of the Civil War-Reconstruction era and the Second Reconstruction of the 1950s-'60s provide crucial lessons for breaking out of our current impasse.
Organizations from around our movement ecosystem share their contributions to the urgent work of blocking MAGA and building towards true multiracial democracy.
This week on the show, hosts of the podcast "Mystery A.I. Hype Theater 3000," Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics at Washington University) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research of the Distributed AI Research Institute), join Cayden to help make sense of the inescapable hype of all things “Artificial Intelligence”. What’s being over-sold? What are the actual threats? And what exactly are we talking about when we say A.I.? Hype or not, the advancement of technology in the workplace has strong implications for workers which some unions and communities are already organizing to protect themselves against.
“Project 2025 comes for everybody, It comes for LGBTQIA+ folks. It comes for folks of color and people of good will of all stripes. But it particularly comes for labor. Unions and workers and all of us who care about worker justice need to take this very seriously.”
