Don't Let Them Take What's Ours
From urban Minneapolis to rural Wisconsin, working class people are organizing to protect public goods from private buyers
Working Class Storytelling
Stories with working-class people, about working-class places and working-class organizing.
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The future should be ours to choose.
Taking the growth of their town into their own hands, these Colorado residents pass a data center moratorium.
Bad Water/Good Organizing
How the residents of Three Rivers pressured their local government to fix the water and fix the pipes in town. *With updates from our story last year*
We didn't ask for any of this.
Working-class people in small towns across America are fighting the construction of data centers. I traveled to Rural Hall, NC, to find out why so many people are showing up over this issue.
“We need to open the eyes of people in government."
Doris thought she was done parenting, but now is raising her grandson. Budget cuts to Medicaid could derail it all. "I can't add a third job," she says.
Gamers band together to protect their digital neighborhoods from corporate profits
Gaming isn't antisocial- in fact, gamers are behind our most rapidly growing third space.
"We never would have come up with this solution if we hadn't been talking to our neighbors and walking through the neighborhoods.
The residents of a small desert city find a solution to the local housing shortage.
The Fixers of Lake Station
A Rust Belt community in northern Indiana figures out a way to fix what's broken.
Women are the working class.
Politicians who want our vote should be making policy that acknowledges this.
Story Updates
Gamers “raid” Electronic Arts HQ; Colorado Moms host gubernatorial town hall; Wisconsin seniors refuse to let up over nursing home fight