Stories and Speaking in 2014

Time for a fresh post to mark the start of 2014. Scroll on.

Speaking on restaurant labor and food security on the Marc Steiner show, August 2014.

On the Majority Report with Sam Seder, discussing "Why the Supreme Court’s Attack on Labor Hurts Women Most."

Talking with Matthew Filipowicz about the #FastFoodGlobal strikes, the off-shoring of musicians in Hollywood, and how little was done to prevent the mining disaster in Turkey. May 2014. 

On Plains FM in New Zealand, discussing global labor migration, February 2014.

Speaking on Chinatown and gentrification with Dutch public radio, February 2014.

A look at Haiti's tragedy, four years on:
"Haiti’s Women Need More Than a Trickle of Aid Money," The Nation, January 2014
Also: My interview on Haiti's recovery on KPFK's Uprising radio show, with Nicole Phillips of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.

Talking on KPFK's Feminist Magazine about my Ms. Magazine Fall 2013 feature storyJanuary 2014.
"An in depth look at what inspired the recent fast food strikes, and how women workers are starting to stand together for a living wage and against the day-to-day hardships and indignities of irregular jobs without benefits, job security or hope." 
Talking with Belabored co-host Sarah Jaffe about unpaid labor and workers' rights on KPFA's Up Front radio show. January 2014.

An inaugural rant with Chuck Mertz on This is Hell! on WNUR in Chicago as an "irregular correspondent."

Academic Work (i.e. things you probably won't read unless you have to)

"Immigration Reform: Corporate Demands Trump Human Rights," New Labor Forum, January/February 2014.

"A Cultural Crossroads at the 'Bloody Angle': The Chinatown Tongs and the Development of New York City's Chinese American Community," Journal of Urban History, March 2014.
"In the early twentieth century in New York City, the tongs of Chinatown established themselves as one of the most resilient, and clever, organized crime enterprises in Lower Manhattan..."
Regulars

Weekly outrage with Belabored, Dissent Magazine's podcast on labor issues, co-hosted with Sarah Jaffe.

Regular contributions to Working In These Times, the magazine's blog on labor issues, with various other voices covering working people's issues of the day. 

Periodic contributions to Asia Pacific Forum, a weekly pan-Asian radio show on Pacifica's WBAI FM.