In These Times

In 2021, Starbucks workers in Buffalo became the first in the company’s U.S. stores to unionize.

Five years later, nearly 700 Starbucks stores are unionized — and workers are still fighting for their first contract.

In a new Working People episode, Maximillian Alvarez talks with director Mark Mori and contributing producer Alec Baldwin about the new documentary "Baristas vs Billionaires," the young workers who pushed the Starbucks union drive into the national spotlight, and why labor stories like this matter far beyond one coffee chain.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/baristas-vs-billionaires-movie-alec-baldwin-starbucks-workers-union

“They are not declaring it, but it is like martial law here.”

That’s what an activist with Defend Mindoro told Alessandra Bergamin about conditions in Mindoro, where communities resisting unwanted development and extractive projects have been met with aerial bombings, strafing, curfews and intensified military presence.

Bergamin’s latest reporting follows the detention of Chantal Anicoche and a larger pattern of red-tagging, coercion and state violence against activists in the Philippines.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/martial-law-philippines-anicoche-environment