We start this week's episode of Work Stoppage discussing last week's big strike victory by nurses in New York City. Next we discuss the looming Supreme Court case that will reshape the ability of workers to strike. Also this week, the NLRB finally officially certified the ALU's victory at JFK8, 9 months after their election. The wave of organizing in academia continues to grow as grad student workers at Northwestern voted overwhelmingly to join the UE this week. The retail organizing wave has also continued with a third REI store filing for a union, this time in Cleveland. Indigenous organizations and trade unions have launched general strikes all over Peru in the weeks since the right wing coup. Incarcerated workers in Texas launched a hunger strike last week to protest policies about solitary confinement that have seen some stuck there for decades. Finally, Starbucks Workers United returns to the show after just one week with a half dozen new union victories!

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Ep 140 - Capitalism Doesn't Work

KEITH LAMAR
Black liberation fighter, visionary, writer and death row prisoner
Author of the amazing book—Condemned
“This isn’t a book you have in your hand. It’s my life. I’m innocent.”
In Conversation with Eric Mann
Political prisoner 1970-1971 Concord State Prison
Author Comrade George:
An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson
Keith Lamar, convicted on perjured testimony, is scheduled for pre-meditated murder by the State of Ohio on November 16, 2023

If we don’t stop them

Stop the Continued Harassment and Provocation by Prison Authorities

Keith is already in a solitary confinement facing state murder

Now the guards ransack his cell, threaten him, provoke him

But he resists 

Listen to his beautiful voice.

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Call Warden Donald G. Redwood of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility: (740) 259-5544
Stop all Guard harassment of Keith Lamar
Call off the execution

Keith Lamar in Conversation with Eric Mann

Hunger Strike (Temple Of The Dog / Cover)
Vocals and Electric Guitar : Emile Music
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Hunger Strike (Temple Of The Dog / Cover)

This week we hear from Mwalimu Shakur, Hunger Striker on his coming home this year in December; Nube speaks with Demetrius Dixon, 30 years on CDCr’s plantations, shares his expertise on prison politics, psychology and conditions; we hear an excerpt of Abolition Today UnCivil War, airs live every Sunday 4pm PST at abolitiontoday.org; finally we end with an article by Maya Miller about a guard’s sexual abuse of a child, unaccounted for by CDCr.

October 5, 2023

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Writer Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin) talks about getting detained in Egypt trying to get to the Rafah Border Crossing with Global Conscience Convoy. But first New York State Assemblymember for District 36 Zohran Mamdani talks about why he's joining other activists including Cynthia Nixon in hunger striking for a cease fire. 

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/).

Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, moving to New York City with his family at the age of 7. A graduate of the NYC Public School System, he attended the Bronx High School of Science and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College. A few years later in 2018, he became naturalized as an American citizen.

Prior to representing the 36th Assembly District and its neighborhoods of Astoria, Ditmars-Steinway, and Astoria Heights, Zohran worked as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor, helping low-income homeowners of color across Queens fight off eviction and stay in their homes. It was this job that led him to run for office. After having spent every day negotiating with banks that valued profits over people, he came face-to-face with the reality that this housing crisis – one which predated this pandemic – was not natural to our lives, but instead a choice. A choice that was the consequence of decades of pro-corporate policies enacted across our country as well as our state. Yet, like with any choice, we always have the opportunity to change and Zohran is excited to be a part of that.

More than his professional experience, however it was the act of organizing that led to Zohran becoming politically active in the first place. In high school, Zohran co-founded his school’s first ever cricket team, which would go on to participate in the Public School Athletic League’s inaugural cricket season. This act, though not ostensibly a political one, taught him how coming together with a few like-minded individuals can transform rhetoric into reality. Prior to that, his politics had been expressed primarily through long Facebook posts whose impact was the same as the Yankees’ rings from the last 10 years. Taking that lesson with him, he went on to co-found his college’s first Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and later organize across the country with different progressive organizations seeking to win national elections as well as expand healthcare coverage. As life took its inevitable turns, with detours in film, rap, and writing, it was always organizing that ensured that the events of our world would not lead him to despair, but to action.


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Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani HUNGER STRIKES For Gaza, Writer Susan Abulhawa GETS DETAINED in Egypt

This is my version of Hunger Strike by Temple of A Dog.. 

I DON'T OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THIS SONG! ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO CHRIS CORNWELL AND TEMPLE OF A DOG!!

Hunger Strike (Cover) - Temple Of A Dog

In the last episode of Series 1, we speak to former Hunger striker, Author & Playwright, Laurence McKeown. Laurence spent seventy days without food in the 1981 Hunger Strike that claimed the lives of his ten comrades.

The Conversation (Episode 13) with former Hunger Striker, Laurence Mckeown

Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa reports back from her recent trip to Gaza where she observed the fallout of Israel's genocidal war first hand. After that, journalist Prem Thakker talks about the attacks on Al Shifa and his interactions with the State Department's spokesperson Matthew Miller. Then active duty Senior Airman Larry Hebert and Anne Wright join to talk about Larry's hunger strike for Gaza which was inspired by Aaron Bushnell. 

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/).

Prem Thakker is a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World. You can find him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/prem_thakker), Instagram, and TikTok.

Active Duty Air Force Active Duty Air Force
Larry Hebert 
Stationed at Naval Station Rota, Spain

Larry Hebert is a 26-year-old active duty senior airman in the United States airforce stationed at Naval Station Rota, Spain. He is on hunger strike calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. His actions were inspired by Aaron Bushnell. 

Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience."

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Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa, Journalist Prem Thakker + Larry Hebert & Ann Wright

The college students protesting across US campuses have caught the attention of the world media but for how long? Dee thinks that if they want to hold court in the media circus for longer they need to turn their protest... DIRTY. Drunk Hot Elizabeth Short calls in to vent about parenting; Sober Hot Elizabeth Short calls in to chat about guinea pigs. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Serial Killer Star Signs.

S&W Episode 943: Dirty Protest

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One hour with Radio Irava in Farsi and Eng.
Guest: Mr. Amir Karegar Poet and Activist
Topic: The conference with the presence of Javed Rahman about Iran's 1988 massacre and the necessity for acountability of the Iranian regime.

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Radio Irava Sept. 1, 2024 with Mr. Amir Karegar

After Carlow resident Mary outlined on The KCLR Daily why she's among those on hunger strike outside Leinster House, Deputy John McGuinness told the programme about his meeting with the group and what's happened since ... 

The KCLR Daily: Deputy John McGuinness on meeting those on hunger strike outside the Dáil (10th Oct 2025)

A hunger strike by some survivors of residential abuse is entering Day 23 outside Leinster House - from there Carlow based Mary Dunlevy Greene updated our Brian Redmond on The KCLR Daily ... 

The KCLR Daily: Carlow woman enters Day 23 of hunger strike outside the Dáil (13th Oct 2025)

One hour with Radio Irava in Farsi and Eng.
Guest: Mr. Hossein Yaghobi Political activist
Topic: The Resistance Against Executions in Iran

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Radio Irava Oct. 26, 2025 With Mr. Hossein Yaghobi, Political activist

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Prison Focus Radio and Liberate the Caged Voices are projects of California Prison Focus. We intentionally and purposefully center  New Afrikan Political Prisoners who organized the Historic California Hunger Strikes, authored the Agreement to End Hostilities, and developed Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance.

These New Afrikans survived decades of torture in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons—euphemistically called “security housing units” (SHUs)— meant to break their revolutionary minds.

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Eric Mann is an environmental, civil rights, anti-war, labor-union activist and organizer. He is the host of www.voicesfromthefrontlines.com on Pacifica Radio's 90.7 FM KPFK, in Los Angeles. Eric is also the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and a co-founder of the Bus Riders Union.

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