Jane McAlevey
Jane McAlevey has been an organizer in the labor and environmental justice movements for the last twenty years. She is a PhD candidate at CUNY Graduate Center and lives in the San Francsico Bay Area.Blog
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Jane McAlevey on MSNBC, HuffPo Live and Counterspin
In her newest book Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), author and maverick organizer Jane McAlevey draws on her two decade-long experience and sets out a plan for revitalizing labor. Reacting to Michigan’s Republican-dominated legislature’s passage of the so-called “right to work” law (an uncomfortable term to use due to its racist origin) and the corporate-backed effort to push for similar legislation nationwide, she made several big media appearances last week and over the weekend to outline the state of labor in America (prognosis: not good) and how labor can be revived. She appeared on MSNBC's UP with Chris Hayes, Counterspin, KALW in San Francisco, The Real News, Huffpost Live, and KBOO community radio in Portland. Audio lies below the jump. Click on the links to listen and watch the interviews in full.
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Jane McAlevey on Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) has continued raising a ruckus in the media. Yesterday, author Jane McAlevey was on KPFA’s Behind the News with Doug Henwood, where she discussed her unorthodox methods of fighting management on behalf of labor and what labor needs to do to come back as a major force in the American political arena.
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Jane McAlevey: Building the Labor Movement in Obama's Second Term
Jane McAlevey, author of Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement was a guest on WBAI's WakeUp Call with Esther Armah last week.
Click here to listen to the interview.
The author was also featured on a recent segment of GritTV with Laura Flanders, where she warned against getting comfortable in the wake of another Obama win:
