This week on In The Meanwhile, we spoke with Loretta Ross to talk about Calling In. We discussed call-out culture, coalition-building, accountability, and why winning people over is often more powerful than writing them off. One of my favorite conversations ever.
Once again, Homer in Beacon Hill really does deserve *so much* love for paying its employees during a fire-caused closure.
And we should absolutely be highlighting worker-owned cooperatives like Jude’s (or newly opened Pidgin in Interbay).
Thank you @mhgreen3000.bsky.social !!!
Politicized incompetence at the hands of Bari Weiss.
RIP editorial independence and journalistic integrity at CBS News
well that was some crystal clear audio right there
Was the right time to evoke the Allen Iverson "We talking about practice" rant!
This week on In The Meanwhile, Nora and I journey from the spectacle of Zuckerberg’s $300 million yacht docking in Seattle as 1,400 workers lose their jobs to a convo with Jaelynn Scott about trans safety, housing justice, "grace in the streets."
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For decades, we sold young people one definition of success. In Federal Way, I met students discovering another. Visiting Federal Way's pre-apprenticeship program left me hopeful about what happens when young people can finally see themselves in the future they're building.
Cities keep hearing the same pitch: "Give us tax breaks, incentives, and subsidies, or we'll leave."
My latest piece asks why we treat multinational corporations and neighborhood businesses as the same thing. One can relocate at the stroke of a CEO's pen. The other is already home.
Thank you to @citycastseattle.bsky.social for this convo about what actually makes businesses thrive in Seattle, and which actually should. Spoiler: the ones paying workers decently, staying rooted in community, and not treating labor like a contagious disease.
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2. As major companies cut jobs and seek subsidies, Marcus Harrison Green makes the case for supporting worker-owned, family-run, and neighborhood businesses that keep wealth circulating locally.
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
Cities keep hearing the same pitch: "Give us tax breaks, incentives, and subsidies, or we'll leave."
My latest piece asks why we treat multinational corporations and neighborhood businesses as the same thing. One can relocate at the stroke of a CEO's pen. The other is already home.
What if the future of work in America is not being coded in a South Lake Union skyscraper, but framed with a nail gun inside a high school shop class in South King County?
