Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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REPORT: Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Today, the Bargaining for the Common Good Network released a report with our friends at the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund on the explosion of wealth a
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Updates
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WCP: The Myth of the Conservative Working Class
For years, reports have misidentified supporters of American conservatism as "working class." The error has a grain of truth: economic displacement generated plenty of white working-class anger and r
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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Applications Open: KI Summer Internships
KI is now accepting applications for the Summer 2021 Research in Action and Organizing Internships. These paid internships are open to all Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students.Th
Category: Updates
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WCP: Bucket Toilets and Casseroles: Belonging, Mutual Aid, and Working-Class Survival
This past year of the pandemic has, for many, been one of struggle and isolation. So films about single older working-class women dealing with economic and personal challenges might not seem inspirin
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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House passes sweeping pro-union bill that would reform labor laws | USA Today
On March 9, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), a bill that would fundamentally change the dynamic and power imbalance in worker organizing. K
Categories: In the News, Updates
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Webinar: Taxing the Rich and Bargaining for Racial Justice in Connecticut
On February 24th, hundreds of members of the Bargaining for the Common Good network gathered virtually to hear from organizers from SEIU 1199 NE and members of Bridgeport Generation Now about a groun
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events, Updates
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WCP: Workers, Climate Change, and Useless Stereotypes
Stories about climate change often depict workers as uniformly resistant to progressive policies. They are more interested, it would seem, in protecting jobs in coal mining than in protecting the pla
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Outage Outrage: Class and the Power Grid
A deep freeze in Texas brought widespread power outages, water shortages, damage to many homes, and plenty of outrage. While the cold snap might not have been expected, the problems reflect decisions
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Not Just Viruses: What Epidemic Cinema Teaches Us about Working-Class Vulnerability
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we've looked to earlier viruses to help us make sense of what's happening. As Tom Zaniello reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, film offers important
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: What the World Needs Now
Natural, human-made, and political disasters have threatened -- or taken -- many people's lives over the past year, and leadership gaps and political divides don't offer much reason to hope. In Worki
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives