Seeing what's there
It's easy to feel that all of life can already be found, reflected, online.
They say there's too much content. Whether user-generated or establishment-media-created, it's easy to feel that all of life can already be found, reflected, online.
But, in starting Current, we've come to realize that life on the left is never fully rendered. The media will report on layoffs, but rarely what comes after. They'll cover strikes won, but not how workers got there. An anti-ICE protest that shut down immigration hearings for the day might get a mention, but it'll be an aside. And you'll almost never hear about education workers organizing with their union to fight back against ICE’s attack on students and their families.
This week, we've published pieces that show what's there, the parts that don't fit into the usual shapes of media coverage:
- Stephanie Reist looked at life after layoffs for SFSU faculty
- Zach Weinstein got the inside story of why and how Urban Ore workers struck for 40 days and 40 nights
- Jay Cameron Mathis went diaristic and told us how they actually shut down the immigration court in Concord
- Y en español — docentes de Oakland se enfrentan a los ataques del ICE contra estudiantes y sus familias
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