Sarah Jaffe - In These Times

Sarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone; Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and her latest book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, all from Bold Type Books. Her journalism covers the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets, and her writing has been published in The Nation, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored podcast, with Michelle Chen, covering today’s labor movement, and Heart Reacts, with Craig Gent, an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism. Sarah has been a waitress, a bicycle mechanic, and a social media consultant, cleaned up trash and scooped ice cream and explained Soviet communism to middle schoolers. Journalism pays better than some of these. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.

John McCain’s Constituents Are Revolting Against His Attempt to Take Away Their Healthcare

Meet Lauren Klinkhammer, a Tucson resident who was politicized by the federal assault on healthcare rights.

To Resist the GOP’s Attack on Healthcare, We Must Transform Our Political System

The Moral Movement is connecting the dots between racist voter suppression, poverty and lethal federal policies.

‘Police Chose the Klan Over Our People’: On Resisting Racism in Charlottesville

When the KKK came to this city, communities mobilized for collective self-defense. Police were not on their side.

Why Disabled People Are Putting Their Bodies on the Line to Protest Healthcare Cuts

A conversation with Bruce Darling, an organizer with disability justice group ADAPT.

Can Indiana Be the Stronghold of the Resistance? This Organizer Thinks So.

Jesse Myerson is one of many trying to build a new progressive base in the country's heartland.

Meet the Activists Still Fighting the Anti-Woman Legacy of Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform

Why welfare activists are throwing their weight behind the RISE Out of Poverty Act.

Meet the Rough-and-Tumble Ironworker Ready to Unseat Paul Ryan

Defeating the Senate’s Trumpcare Bill Is a Life-or-Death Fight

An organizer for Nevada’s Working Families Party discusses the efforts in her state to block the Senate healthcare bill and push for single-payer.

How Black Communities Across the Country Are Retaking Land and Demanding Reparations

A conversation with Chinyere Tutashinda of the BlackOUT Collective.

Indivisible’s Angel Padilla: Time Is Running Out To Stop the GOP’s Healthcare Bill

The policy director at Indivisible talks tactics for the coming weeks.

Naomi Klein: Why the Revolution Must Be Led By Ordinary People, Not Celebrities

When they go low, we rise up.

Interviews for Resistance: A Sanders Campaign Vet on How to Connect with Disaffected Voters

Becky Bond talks about the importance of knocking on doors to bridge the gap between voters and campaigns.

Interviews for Resistance: Disrupting the System by Demanding Healthcare as a Human Right

Interviews for Resistance: New Progressive Coalition Calls for “Millions of Jobs”

Interviews for Resistance: From Resistance to Revolution—It’s Time To Switch to Offense

An organizer talks about what it takes to move from a reactionary position to one where we fight for the power to govern.

Interviews for Resistance: Trump’s “Family Leave” Plan Is a Shell Game

Interviews for Resistance: On the Commodification of Education

Interviews for Resistance: Bird-Dogging To Stop Trumpcare in the Senate

This organizer is training activists on how to track down representatives and ask questions.

Interviews for Resistance: Why the Fight for Single-Payer Is More Important Than Ever

A physician talks about the House vote on Trumpcare and what should happen next.

Interviews for Resistance: “Money for Our Streets—Not for Wall Street”

May Day Isn’t Just About One Day—It’s About a Movement

Interviews for Resistance: “We Are in a Massive Moment of Transition”

Since the election, a lot more people are interested in exploring alternatives to the way things are. A longtime organizer talks about how to seize that opportunity and bring them into the fight.

Interviews for Resistance: “Shutting It Down” on May 1

Interviews for Resistance: How To Stop “Neoliberalism on Steroids”

Interviews for Resistance: IBM Workers Tell Company To Practice What It Preaches

Interviews for Resistance: How Criminalized Communities in Chicago Are Working Together

An immigrant rights organizer connects her work with the organizing being done in Black, Latino and Muslim communities.

Interviews for Resistance: Reproductive Justice Is About Way More Than Abortion

Access to abortion is critical, yes. But so are a whole host of other healthcare issues.

Interviews for Resistance: No, Donald Trump Is Not Bringing Back Coal Jobs

A climate justice organizer for People’s Action talks about what it takes to move from protest to power.

Interviews for Resistance: A Democratic Socialist on Running to Transform the Democratic Party

A candidate for city council in South Fulton, Georgia, talks about running for local office as a way to infiltrate and transform the Democratic Party.

Interviews for Resistance: There’s Still Time To Shape the Budget—Here’s How

Trump ran on not being a regular candidate. But his budget shows that he is, in many ways, a typical Republican.

Interviews for Resistance: On Recovering the Word “Strike”

Interviews for Resistance: The Opioid Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis Rooted in Poverty

A healthcare organizer in Maine talks about the importance of engaging people wherever they are.

Interviews for Resistance: Workers Are on the Frontlines of Making Sure Banks Don’t Rip Us Off

Interviews for Resistance: “It Is Just Open Season Now” on Undocumented Immigrants

A longtime organizer talks about the brutal intersection of being black and undocumented.

Interviews for Resistance: The March 8 Strike Is About Building Feminism for the 99%

Interviews for Resistance: Protests Show Immigrants’ Economic Power Cannot Be Ignored

Interviews for Resistance: What New York Taxi Workers Teach Us About Fighting Back

Interviews for Resistance: On Putting Your Body on the Line to Stop Deportations

An organizer arrested for trying to stop a deportation talks about what's needed to prevent more families from being split up.

Interviews for Resistance: “Standing Rock is Everywhere Right Now”

The director of the Native Organizers Alliance on why we must do more than mobilize.

Interviews for Resistance: On Treating Trump Like a Bad Boss

Interviews for Resistance: Why Teachers Unions Are the Best Bet To Transform the Labor Movement

Interviews for the Resistance: Live From the Spontaneous Protests at JFK Airport

Hundreds gather to protest Donald Trump's refugee and Muslim bans, and to demand the release of those held at the airport.

Interviews for Resistance: Biola Jeje of BYP100 on Why Direct Action Is So Powerful Right Now

It's not enough to protest. We must "put our bodies on the line."

Interviews for Resistance: Strike Targets Donald Trump and Home Depot

Interviews for Resistance: Don’t Just March this Weekend—Strike!

Interviews for Resistance: Mariame Kaba on Why the Time To Push for Single-Payer Is Now

The longtime organizer on how we can unite across difference to agitate for real progress under Trump—and push the Democrats left in the process.

David Bowie’s Radicalism

The artist blew our minds wide open.

The Bad Boss Tax

Workers at Target, Walmart and McDonald's need food stamps to survive. Should the companies be taxed accordingly?

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