This is the first episode of the One Burger Union podcast, the official podcast of the Burgerville Workers Union!

In this episode we'll hear from a member of the Jimmy Johns Workers Union in Twin Cities Minnesota, a report from a BVWU action at the Vancouver Plaza store, the first installment of our series "Tales from the Drive Thru," and info about the upcoming Labor Day Picnic.

Here's some links!

The Northwest Labor Council's Labor Day Picnic:
http://or.aflcio.org/511/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=EA0D5F26-FEC4-4E35-8F3E-4121EFB9CA2A

Jimmy Johns Workers Union:
https://www.jimmyjohnsworkers.org/

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One Burger Union Podcast Ep 1

We're back!! Sorry for the wait, I know you were all getting pretty antsy...  But this episode rips!

In this episode you're hear some reflections on Trump from right after the election, an interview about the union's efforts to get tip jars, the latest installment in "Tales for the Drive Thru," and an interview with a member from the VOZ Workers Rights Education Project (http://portlandvoz.org/)

Some of the pieces are a little out of date, but hopefully you'll forgive us!

An Injury to One is and Injury to All!  One Burger Union!

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Debut Single by Spencer H - Mistakes 

Written and Produced by Spencer H
Drums & Percussion: Nate Mondschein 
Bass & Guitar: Reed Sutherland
Recorded and Mixed by Andrew Oedel at Ghost Hit Recording in Holyoke, MA
Mastered by Kevin Butler at Test Tube Audio in Austin, TX

Mistakes

Local environmental activists and residents have been fighting against Entergy and the company's plan to build a natural gas-powered power plant in New Orleans East for the past three years. Shortly after the City Council approved the plant in March 2017, just weeks before the current Council was inaugurated, investigators revealed that Entergy had been paying actors to fill seats at public meetings and voice fake support for the plant -- an illegal practice known as "astroturfing".

On Wednesday, January 23, the new City Council will consider a resolution to "rescind and repeal" the previous Council's approval of the plant. But activists say we don't just need a revote; we need the entire process to be reopened and it needs to be fair and informed from the start.

Renate Heurich (350 New Orleans), Happy Johnson (resident and activist), and Mark Nguyen (VAYLA) joined me in the studio to discuss the plant, the various scandals surrounding it, and how our new Council has a chance to do the right thing. 

Thank you Renate Heurich, Happy Johnson, and Mark van Nguyen for you work and for joining me on the show!! And thanks to the entire Energy Futures Coalition for protecting our environment, our health, and our democracy: No Gas Plant, 350 New Orleans, VAYLA New Orleans, Alliance for Affordable Energy, New Orleans Office Sierra Club., and Justice and Beyond NOLA

LEARN MORE:
https://www.nogasplant.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nogasplant/

SIGN THE PETITON:
https://actionnetwork.org/…/no-gas-power-plant-in-new-orlea…

COME TO THE MEETING: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/387527075334447/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2249530471996881/

CONTACT YOUR COUNCIL REPS:
https://council.nola.gov/councilmembers/

The Fight Against Entergy, Astroturfing & Environmental Racism in NO East (Energy Future Coalition)

"If you owe the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100 million, you own the bank." Together, we own the bank.

Thomas Gokey and Dawn Lueck of The Debt Collective talk to Sophie about how, through collective financial disobedience, we have the power to renegotiate and resist unjust debts.

debtcollective.org

WTUL News & Views

The Debt Collective: Organizing Against Unjust Debts through Financial Civil Disobedience

You'd Never Guess

the great Michael Muller helped write this goon cant and supervised all the things, the great Howe Pearson plays lead on clair and the wall, and the great Connor Schultze mixed time. thank you for listening.

thank you to Davis and Eliza for their input, don't hold anything bad against them they just listened to it and gave me their thoughts

time

it just went til it stopped
a cannonball wedged between the rocks
i can pick it up all by myself
defending our fortress in hell

look at the camera
see who protects it
your portrait of self

captured forever
if not worn by the weather
your fortress of self

(i love you sweetie. i'm pushing all of my poker chips to the center of the table and that's because i just know you're going to deal me 21. and because you're so special. i'm smiling into the screen now. i know you can't see me, it's okay. i'm going to - can you see me if i smile into the security camera? i'm smiling now.)

this cannonball doesn't stop
lie to my friends like the cops
and i'm pickin up hay by the bale
defending our fortress in hell

hallucination
of gustatory nature
the cold, slimy pill

captured forever
on the weight of a feather
your portrait of self

(aw, it's you again. you know, 21 is a special number. it is 7 times 3. 7 plus 3 is 10. and 10 is the number of completion. i'm seeing you in your bathing suit and i love you. i'm doing kissies at the screen. aw, it's you again. i'm saying "i love you sweetie" and i'm writing it on a paper.)

time

David Thompson

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