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I'm excited to share that my first op-ed was published last week! Given my interest in labor history, I felt compelled to chime in on the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the workforce. In this piece, Omar Ocampo and I argue that the real issue with AI isn't the future threat of job displacement, but rather how AI is already being weaponized to intensify workplace surveillance. The dominant narrative surrounding AI is often little more than propaganda, obscuring the fact that these technologies are being integrated squarely within the existing social relations of capitalism. Far from transforming the nature of work, AI is being deployed to strengthen managerial control over workers. While AI has the potential to make life easier for workers, it can only do so if its integration is brought under the control of those who actually do the work. Thankfully, organized labor recognizes this challenge and is fighting to ensure that new technologies will be implemented not to the detriment of workers, but for their benefit. How do you see AI impacting your work environment? I invite you to join the conversation. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gnvgYqhk

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Absolutely. Helen Flannery and Chuck Collins at the Institute for Policy Studies have been doing critical investigations on this for a long time, along with academics like Ray Madoff and more than I can link here. It's a growing issue -- and some of the largest foundations in the country are using this loophole. Below is a link to one of my recent pieces as it covers this a lot better than I can in a post: https://lnkd.in/djPAbwqW

New polling in the US shows “voracious appetite” for reforming charity laws around donor-advised funds, across the political spectrum. We spoke with Bella DeVaan of the Institute for Policy Studies about the ongoing donor “revolt” for DAF reform, as part of our series 🔓Unlocking Abundance 🔓with Magic Cabinet. Learn more about this series and our recent event in Seattle here: bit.ly/3YfVzFW

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The $39 billion in the CHIPS Act should reward companies that work responsibly, not those that will blow it on buybacks.   Researchers from Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Financial Reform found ways to ensure that. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/gbh7TScC

The Institute for Policy Studies, the Wallace Global Fund, and The Nation Present:   The First Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium Countering American Fascism:  Lessons from Organizing in the U.S. Heartland    with John Nichols, Sulma Arias of People’s Action, and Tope Folarin    🗓 Monday, July 22, 2024, 6:30-8 pm 📍 Busboys and Poets, 14th and V St., NW   Eighty years ago, the New York Times published an article by the sitting vice president, Henry A. Wallace, on “The Dangers of American Fascism.” Wallace defined a fascist as one whose “lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.” For democracy to crush fascism, Wallace warned, “It must put human beings first and dollars second.”    Join us for a discussion on the challenges confronting American democracy in the face of rising fascism. How are social movements working to counter this dangerous force by building an alternative vision of a multi-racial democracy and an economy that works for us all? What lessons can we learn from organizing in rural communities and from union campaigns in southern states?  Rsvp here: https://lnkd.in/gHK-x2V4

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We've had an incredible start to our summer Henry A. Wallace Fellowship Program! This new Program honors Wallace’s commitment to fighting fascism, corporate capture of democracy, militarism, and racism. Our fellows have already been immersed in some courageous movements by attending a protest, congressional hearing, and gala. The Institute for Policy Studies is lucky to have such an amazing cohort of future leaders 🙌