Gabriel Kristal has been organizing unions across the country for the past 18 years. With his experience directing NLRB elections, negotiating contracts and winning successful strikes from California to Montana, he is very interested in what moves ordinary working people to stand up to power. Currently, he lives in upstate New York on a farm with his filmmaker wife, chickens, cats, and Australian Shepherd named Hugo.

Labor
A Working-Class Strategy for Defeating White Supremacy
Gabriel Kristal
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.