Scene Report: Santa Cruz Verve Workers Union Launch Rally
We wanted to hear what Verve Coffee workers and their supporters had to say, so we attended their union launch rally. Here's what we found out.
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Cole Hersey is a writer based in Oakland, California. His work focuses on environmental topics and the arts. His work has been featured in Bay Nature, Earth Island Journal, and elsewhere.
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Nate Adams is a community organizer and co-chair of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America. He is a former employee of Touchstone Climbing Gym.
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Padmini Raghunath is Bay Area Current's special features editor. She's a journalist and audio producer based in Oakland.
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Wendy Liu writes about tech billboards for Bay Area Current. She is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism (2020). She is currently working on a novel.
View articlesMatt Takaichi is a photojournalist for Bay Area Current. He published the book Developers (2021) and is working on a second photography book.
View articlesCecelia Shaw is a local bookseller and a member of Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC).
View articlesLucio Maldonado (pseudonym) is a community organizer, educator, and socialist in Los Angeles.
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Veena Dubal is a Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on law, technology, and precarious workers.
View articlesDecca Muldowney is managing editor of Bay Area Current. She is a journalist based in Oakland. She has worked at The Daily Beast, Reveal, ProPublica and The Real Deal.
View articlesNate Hale is an organizer with Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC). For his day job, he works in publishing.
View articlesNick Thacker is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a PhD student of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. He lives in Oakland.
View articlesStephanie Reist has a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies and teaches undergraduate expository writing. Her writing focuses on higher ed and culture in the Bay and beyond.
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Rebecca Gross is a PhD candidate and educator at UC Santa Cruz in the Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies departments. She's also on the bargaining team for her union, UAW 4811.
View articlesVictor is a writer based in the Bay Area. He is a researcher of technology, law, and political economy at UC Berkeley.
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Jay Cameron Mathis is a pseudonym used by a middle school teacher in the Diablo Valley. They enjoy cooking and riding the bus and organize with East Bay DSA.
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Justine Rose Armen is Bay Area Current’s culture editor. She is a writer, documentary film professional and nonprofit arts administrator based in Oakland.
View articlesMyron Angus is a member of Bay Area Current's Editorial Board. A writer with a passion for arts and culture, he has partied, worked, and organized here for most of his life.
View articlesSarah Weaver is a writer and organizer born, raised and based in Berkeley.
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David de Leeuw is a retired Oakland teacher whose first labor involvement was in 1971, standing in front of a supermarket and asking people not to buy grapes.
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Justin Gilmore is on the editorial board of Bay Area Current. Justin teaches political theory at California State Stanislaus, and he is currently writing on a book on fascism.
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