James Anderson

Jul 11, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Ramiro Murguia |Saru Jayaraman |James Anderson

On May 30, 2024, former president Donald Trump—the current Republican nominee for the President of the United States—became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes when a New York jury found him guilty of 34 charges related to payments he made to a porn actor in his attempt to keep her quiet leading up to the 2016 election.

Jul 10, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | James Anderson |Meredith Klenkel

Mark Kenneth Gradoni, a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), recalls seeing a phalanx of marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles fly down the freeway with lights flashing when he arrived at campus on May 15. As he parked in Lot 7, Gradoni heard police helicopters circling overhead. They blasted inaudible commands he later learned were orders to disperse and a notice that a Gaza support protest had been declared an unlawful assembly.

Jun 4, 2024 | highlandernews.org | James Anderson

James Anderson is a lecturer and freelance journalist who is from Illinois but now resides in Riverside, California. He has taught labor studies as well as media and cultural studies courses at University of California, Riverside (UCR). He is a member of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) and the The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Freelance Journalists Union. You can reach him at [email protected].

May 18, 2024 | truthout.org | James Anderson

When Grinnell College wanted to begin compensating community advisors (CA), who work to provide students living in residence halls with programming and support for personal and academic issues, on an hourly basis, undergraduates at the private liberal arts school in Iowa took collective action. They went on strike at the end of the spring semester in 2023.

Nov 16, 2023 | truthout.org | Chris Walker |Sharon Zhang |Jake Johnson |James Anderson

Organizers of the protest say police injured around 90 demonstrators in total.