Archive of Jessica Turner

• Whistleblowing is Not a Crime

  Yesterday Chase Madar, author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower; former British soldier Joe Glenton, author of Soldier Box: Why I Won't Go Back to War; and Jesselyn Radack, whistleblower and author of TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban" appeared on AlJazeera's Inside Story America to dissect the case of Wiki-leaker Private First Class Bradley Manning.
  
  
  

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  By Jessica Turner / 06 March 2013 / post comment

• Making the case for the US labor movement

  "The labor movement is the only thing standing between working Americans and abject poverty," Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) author Jane McAlevey said during an interview on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show yesterday.

  
  During the forty minute segment, McAlevey asserts that unions will only regain relevance when they make issues like the foreclosure crisis, lack of affordable childcare and failing US education system—realities workers face outside the shop door—a priority. This work is difficult, running contrary to current union doctrine, but absolutely vital to reviving the movement, said the author: 

  
  
  
  

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  By Jessica Turner / 04 December 2012 / post comment

• Rebuilding US labor: It's the grassroots, stupid

  The November 6th US presidential election results created some breathing room for unions. The big question now is: what will they do during Obama’s second term? Jane McAlevey, labor movement veteran and author of the recently published Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement appears in the video below with some ideas: 
  
  
  
  McAlevey makes a compelling case for a new kind of unionism, one that builds beyond ballot boxes and shallow mobilizing. Raising Expectations is in stores now. 
  
  

  By Jessica Turner / 30 November 2012 / post comment

• "How long before the next tragedy?" Matt Kennard speaks with John Hockenberry of The Takeaway

  Matt Kennard, author of Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror was a guest on Thursday's The Takeaway, discussing his research on the crossover between the US army and hate groups, in the wake of last Sunday's massacre at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
   
  

  
  In the interview, Kennard set alleged shooter Wade Michael Page's experience in the military and what we've come to learn of his neo-Nazi affiliations in context.

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  By Jessica Turner / 09 August 2012 / post comment

• Matt Kennard featured in Democracy Now's Oak Creek Massacre Special Report

  Matt Kennard, author of the forthcoming Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror appeared on Democracy Now this morning in a special segment about Sunday's Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sikh temple massacre, shooter Wade Michael Page and his research on the rise of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and violent extremists in the US military.
  
  
  
  Matt Kennard has been researching the impact of the War on Terror on US military recruitment of extremists, gang members, the mentally unstable, and far-right; his book, to be released this September, collects this work, painting a startling picture of the threat posed on domestic soil by the fanatics being armed and trained in high-grade weaponry with American tax-payer dollars.
  
  Visit Democracy Now to watch the segment in full.

  By Jessica Turner / 09 August 2012 / 1 comment

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