On May 15, freelance workers celebrated the launch of the new Freelance Isn’t Free law at the Westinghouse Building in Manhattan. The Freelancers Union, with the support of the National Writers Union, Make the Road NY, and other unions and freelance organizations, helped push the bill through the City Council to a 51-0 vote last […]
NWU Hosts PEN America
On May 10, NWU and Creatives in Action (CIA) co-hosted Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN America, who spoke about “Defending Our Democracy in the Trump Era.” This was the first time NWU has partnered with CIA and the third time we have participated with PEN America in the last six month. Previously we spoke out in […]
Maine Rally for Health Care
A Health Care Rally on Thursday, May 4 featured speakers that represented both patients and providers at the State House in Augusta, Maine. The event promoted LD 1274, an act to promote universal health care, including dental, vision and hearing coverage. The event was sponsored by the Southern Maine Workers Center and Maine AllCare.
Why Defunding the NEA is Even Dumber Than You Think
It’s federal budget time and, as usual, the National Endowment for the Arts is under attack. Their heads filled with images of obscene art, effete gallery-goers and overtaxed single mothers, conservatives are gunning for the straight-out elimination of the 50 year old program. No money, no arts funding. Period. No matter that the $148 million […]
George Fell Was a ‘Force of Nature’
We know the name of the man who threatens the future of the conserved and preserved natural lands in the United States, but few can name the man who launched the Nature Conservancy and sparked the entire Natural Areas Movement. Arthur Melville Pearson’s Force of Nature chronicles the life of George Fell. A complex and at […]
‘Grown-Up Anger’ Looks at Labor History
Grown-up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 is an exciting romp through labor union history. The book, which will be released June 13, explores its subject through the lens of American music. Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie’s protest and solidarity songs, and how they represent the […]
Do Writers Have “Moral Rights”?
The idea that writers have “moral” rights with respect to our written work may seem strange to those who think of copyright in purely propertarian terms. They might wonder: What does morality have to do with property ownership? But our writing is more than intellectual property, and our rights to our work are more than […]
‘Dunes’ Novel Inspired by Windswept Landscape
Homeport Press just published Our Lady of the Dunes, my coming-of-age novel, which takes place amid the dunes of the OuterCape of Provincetown, MA, in 1942. The dunes run along the beach nearly 40 miles, from Chatham to Provincetown, and just above them are bluffs that overlook the Atlantic Ocean. My story is of a young woman who’s sent out from Boston to live […]
Sherwood Back With 3rd ‘Murdery Delicious’ Book
The Chalmers brothers have returned in The Murdery Delicious Blood Stone Secret, the devastating finale of The Murdery Delicious trilogy. In the latest installment, the siblings are a little older, possibly a little wiser, and undoubtedly more terrified. As the latest mystery unfolds, a breezy summer getaway at their newly restored ancestral home quickly becomes a crawl through the […]
‘Beyond $15’: Possibilities in Reimagined Labor Movement
Sarah Mohamoud was once a seven-year-old Somali girl who had to hide in the bed of a truck, narrowly escaping her country’s civil war by crossing the Kenyan border. Assadollah Valibeigi struggled to make a living as a taxi driver and merchant in Iran’s politically chaotic capital city. Mohamed Kadhim and his family fled bombings in Iraq, only […]
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