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Welcome to #genO, a podcast brought to you by Youth Against Sweatshops. Why are so many of us working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and still barely making ends meet? And our lives, friendships, and relationships are always suffering and pushed to the side. How do we try to overcome all this baggage? We will throw in some analysis and history and we will share what we've learned from our on-the-ground organizing to improve working conditions.
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Chinatown Workers Speak Out: How Yuh-Line Niou & the Chinatown Elites Created a Racially-Targeted Wage Theft Crisis
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Yuh-Line Niou, a self-proclaimed "progressive" Asian American politician running for Congress, was recently rumored for being involved in money-laundering related to the Panama papers. If you really wanna dig up her actual involvement in theft, corruption, and money laundering that's backed up by concrete evidence, look no further than her own dist…
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Are We Duped by Our Education? The Ethnic Elites and the Maintenance of a Racial Underclass (w/ Mahir Rahman)
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Mahir Rahman is a graduating college student specialized in medicine and optometry at CUNY Baruch and an organizer in Manhattan Chinatown. Fight the New York State's and its ethnic elites' racism against our workers and community by joining the March Against Displacement and Racial Violence on September 26, 11 A.M. @ 150 Elizabeth St.…
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How overworking makes us collectively poorer (w/ Zishun Ning)
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This episode is devoted to those who think of "work fewer hours a day" as a lofty ideal. While our jobs certainly don't pay us enough to survive in cities like New York, the common-place bargain for more hours actually ends up making us even poorer. Zishun Ning from the Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign explains why.…
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Self Care: Who's Got Time for That?! (w/ Jianela @Tia.Talks)
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Sam and Sarah speak to Jianela from Tia.Talks on work schedules, self care, minimum wage, and our lack of control of time and health.
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Adjunct Professors and Students Should Unite Around Long-hour Workday (w/ Kai Wen Yang)
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Sarah speaks with Kai Wen Yang (PhD, Sociology, SUNY Binghamton) who has worked as an adjunct professor for over a decade.
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Welcome to GenO (Generation Overworked), a podcast brought to you by Youth Against Sweatshops. Why are so many of us working 60, 70, 80 hours a week? And our lives, friendships and relationships are always suffering and pushed to the side. Meanwhile so many of us are unemployed and underemployed. We face long stretches of having no income of spendi…
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End the 24-hour workday NOW! (w/ The Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign)
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In the 1st episode of #genO by YAS (Youth Against Sweatshops), Sarah chats with Samantha and Yolanda about what young people have learned from the organized home care workers of the Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign. The episode ends with a special announcement of call to action on March 8, 2021, the International Working Women's Day. Join them to celebra…
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