Olivia Heffernan

May 8, 2024 | documentedny.com | Olivia Heffernan |Maggie Gray |Maurizio Guerrero |Maurizio Guerrero was

C.A. felt something was wrong when he was assigned to pick apples in fields without enough ripe crops to meet the required five boxes per day. The 40-year-old seasonal worker from Jamaica joined several other workers to complain to the manager that it would be impossible to meet their required minimum.

May 1, 2023 | artnews.com | Olivia Heffernan

1973 was a big year in the United States: the Watergate scandal dominated the news, the Supreme Court upheld the right to abortion with Roe v. Wade, Springsteen and Dylan ruled the radio, and everyone loved Post-Minimalism. But abroad, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger obsessively expanded America’s economic hegemony, an effort that found a willing partner in Chile.

Apr 10, 2023 | lithub.com | Olivia Heffernan |Jamie McCallum

A new common sense has emerged in labor organizing, a shift that coincides with renewed labor militancy and organizing across various industries. Labor unions, once derided as anachronistic and bureaucratic dead ends—pale, male, and stale—are seeing a resurgence among young, radical, and non-normie culture. In his famous 1960 “Letter to the New Left,” C.

Apr 3, 2023 | truthdig.com | Steven Brooks |Olivia Heffernan

Sherman Newman, an incarcerated man, is both a student and a teacher at California’s Mount Tamalpais College (MTC), a liberal arts college in San Quentin State Prison. He is one of the thousands of people who have attended MTC, the only accredited, independent liberal arts college in the U.S. that operates its main campus out of a prison.

Mar 31, 2023 | prismreports.org | Steven Brooks |Olivia Heffernan

Sherman Newman, an incarcerated man, is both a student and a teacher at California’s Mount Tamalpais College (MTC), a liberal arts college in San Quentin State Prison. He is one of the thousands of people who have attended MTC, the only accredited, independent liberal arts college in the U.S. that operates its main campus out of a prison.