Tag: Labor Organizing
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It’s Not a General Strike, but It’s a Start
January 30th has been set as a nationwide day of action against the campaign of state terror carried out by ICE and other DHS agencies. Some have referred to the 30th as a ‘general strike’. In this article, Black Rose/Rosa Negra member Cameron Pádraig examines the prospects for a general strike on the 30th, offering…
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How Teachers, Students, and Parents are Organizing to Keep ICE Out of Durham Schools
Before Thanksgiving 2025, the Department of Homeland Security set its sights on North Carolina. Since launching Operation Charlotte’s Web, a multiagency campaign of terror and abduction directed against the state’s non-white immigrant population, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have made more than 400 arrests while local businesses have shuttered…
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Healthcare Workers Freed a Patient From ICE – You Can Do the Same
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents brought a detainee to a California hospital in 2025, they didn’t know they would leave empty-handed. Using capacity they built over months of organizing, Healthcare workers intervened quickly to protect and ultimately free their patient from the clutches of federal secret police. Based on an interview with local…
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Durham, NC Event Announcement: Building Independent Unions in the South & Beyond
Join members of the Durham, NC local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) for an in person event on labor organizing and building independent unions. The event will feature a presentation on BRRN’s labor strategy, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A featuring a former organizer with Blue Bottle Independent Union and a rank-and-file member of…
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Webinar Announcement: How to Keep ICE Out of Your Workplace
Join Black Rose / Rosa Negra for a workshop on organizing our workplaces to prepare for immigration raids. Details and registration link below. When: Sunday, November 9th at 4 Pacific / 5 Mountain / 6 Central / 7 Eastern Where: On Zoom – Registration required Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes Registration: https://bit.ly/ShuttingTheDoor ICE has…
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Organizing to Keep ICE Out of Your Workplace
This article was written by a member of Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) with experience in both workplace organizing and neighborhood based organizing against ICE. Drawing on this background, the author describes a series of steps you can start taking today to defend yourself and your coworkers from ICE. by Keith Robertson Introduction When…
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Online Event Announcement: Labor Lessons from the South
Many in the US labor movement are fearful as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle legal protections granted to unions by the National Labor Relations Act and regulated by the National Labor Relations Board. Many see a dismantling of the NLRA as a terrible blow that could topple the US labor movement as it is…
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It Will Take Collective Direct Action to Stop the Abductions
The Trump administration has begun disappearing international students and workers from university campuses. This article, written by three academic workers, argues that this escalation was made possible by a campaign of repression initiated by universities themselves. After analyzing where we are and how we got here, the authors put forward their answer to the pressing…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #6 – Restaurants
This is the sixth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, #3 with a metal worker, #4 with a public librarian, and #5 with a public school teacher. In this interview we speak to GK, a restaurant worker in Michigan. As the…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #5 – Public Schools
This is the fifth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, #3 with a metal worker, and #4 with a public librarian. In this interview we speak with Shan, a public school teacher in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series…