Working People
Adam Ryan (Target Workers Unite)
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Show notes
Our Season Three finale: we talk with Adam Ryan, a Target worker in Virginia and liaison for Target Workers Unite, one of the groups that has been organizing the coordinated strike actions planned for May 1st, 2020. We talk about Adam's life, his path to becoming a leftist and getting involved in labor organizing, and we talk about the conditions that Target employees have been working under even before the Covid-19 crisis began.
Additional links/info below...
- Target Workers Unite Facebook page and Twitter page
- Target Workers Unite Strike Fund (please donate!)
- Amazonians United New York City Twitter page
- Whole Worker United Twitter page
- Gig Workers Rising Twitter page
- Lauren Kaori Gurley, VICE, "Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart Workers Organize a Historic Mass Strike"
- Daniel A. Medina, The Intercept, "As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike"
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
- Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
- Cletus Got Shot, "Take Out the Fascists"