IWW Freelance Journalists Union
A union for all freelance journalists, bloggers, and other writers in news media - www.freelancejournalistsunion.org. Part of the IWW (https://iww.org). For assistance, please email freelancejournalists@iww.org
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionLike many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year. Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
- In Support of Writers Against the War On Gaza's Call for Comprehensive Coverage of the Israeli Genocide 1/ In September 2025, Save the Children estimated that Israeli forces had been killing more than one Palestinian child per hour since the start of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip—
- 2/ or more than 20,000 children in less than two years. By the end of the month, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported over 66,000 people killed and more than 168,500 injured, the vast majority women and children.
- /3 Meanwhile, Israel’s stranglehold on Western news media has been deafening. As Writers Against the War On Gaza has repeatedly noted, the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza should be front-page news—yet it is often conspicuously absent from Western media.
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View full threadWe ask our members, fellow printing and publishing workers, and readers everywhere to use WAWOG’s contact lists and templates to demand that the Israeli genocide in Gaza is covered accurately, prominently and with the urgency and gravity it deserves.
- Gaza-based journalist Addulruhman Ismail has started a crowdfunding campaign chuffed.org/project/youn... Please boost
- aje.io/ecbker Fellow workers, we are quoted in this article about GFM blocking funds to Palestinians. please take time to read.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionI could go on forever about this, but I’ll just say—a healthy democracy functions best when its people are informed, and it’s extremely important that journalism remains an independent & robust enterprise. Many issues with the industry, but its current dismantling is a net negative for any community
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionI’m proud to be a journalist, even as the industry in the US is cratering and being stripped for parts and reporters here and all over the world are risking life and livelihood to tell important stories. Especially proud to be amongst a group of truly talented, endlessly empathetic, intelligent ppl
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionIt’s World Press Freedom Day, and I want to step up on my little soapbox and remember those of us who didn’t make it last year—in Gaza, especially, but all around the world; & those of us who are doxxed/threatened/intimidated/arrested/killed for doing vitally important work, and keep doing it anyway
- Fellow Workers, Please consider signing this petition to release Mahmoud Khalil. actionnetwork.org/forms/urgent...
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🧵 On March 5, at 3:30pm CST (4:30pm EST) there is a hearing in the case of Nate A Lindell XRE vs. Terri Rees et al. The case, being heard by Judge Everett Mitchell, centers around Wisconsin’s Open Records law, and will determine whether the Wisconsin 1/
- Department of Corrections’ current ban on releasing body-worn camera footage violates the law. The plaintiff, fellow worker Nate Lindell, was denied access to bodycam footage from a guard that he alleges abused him, and he is now suing for release of the recording. 2/
- He was initially denied access because the Stanley Correctional Institution claimed releasing it would violate their security protocols. This case (2024-CV-1066) will determine if the original justification was sound, or if the bodycam footage must be released 3/
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View full threadattend the Zoom hearing on March 5 to show solidarity with incarcerated persons in their struggle against their captors. We intend to flood the virtual courtroom with supporters. Join FW Lindell at 3:30pm CST here: zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 684 919 9324 5/5 End🧵
- 🧵 Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈 Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID 1/5
- Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈 Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid 2/5
- Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈 Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID 3/5
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View full threadElon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈 Shipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot in a Texas warehouse. Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid 5/5
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionHere we see the Heritage Foundation explicitly accusing Jewish Voice for Peace and many other Jewish people of being "antisemitic." They want Jewish people to be harassed and terrorized as "antisemites" if they don't participate in the Christian Nationalist project represented by gentile Zionism.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionNEW: For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionCW: extreme violence people used to gather in huge crowds to view and participate in lynchings, often festival like fanfare. photographs were used as postcards. people were often tortured to death, body parts sold in stores as memorabilia - sometimes in stores. just so we're on the same page
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Union1. The Israeli genocide on Gaza is also causing intense enviromental & climate damage. 2. We already have increased catastrophic storms due to climate change. So, 3. Both are magnifying the already-devestating effects of the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people in ways like this flooding.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionYou can't run on warnings of creeping authoritarianism and then bend yourself toward authoritarianism by embracing the GOP's trans panic. Wrote about this for @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Union"Israeli draft resisters are refusing conscription and deployment to...Gaza...the only reasonable response is to say “no.” Everyone who lives in the U.S. has a responsibility to help ensure that soldiers know that saying “no” to their commanding officers is an option." truthout.org/articles/tru...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionDon't miss the latest installment of In Contempt, our monthly roundup of news, action, and updates on political prisoners, abolitionist media, state repression, and beyond. itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionThe lists of journalists killed each year is long, very long, too long... we want clean sheets... Aggression against journalist alas so common. The lists of detained ones would also occupy much space. Impressive pictures @efjeurope.bsky.social @iwwfju.bsky.social @djv.de @education.dsausa.org
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionOn the latest episode of our Working People podcast, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social sits down with Cornell grad student union members Jawuanna McAllister and Jenna Marvin to talk about campus repression of pro-Palestine activism and how the union is fighting back. inthesetimes.com/article/corn...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionWe're still adding grassroots journalists, authors, and platforms as we come across them. Check out new additions including @zsamudzi.bsky.social, @ayoub.bsky.social, @clashmtl.bsky.social, @cbmilstein.bsky.social, @jamesstout.bsky.social, @whysophiewhy.bsky.social and more. bsky.app/starter-pack...at://did:plc:exgbhwnyahjgwru4hnmzm7u5/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lawn7oyh6n2z
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionI made a starter pack of some people I think are cool and smart :) go.bsky.app/KmgT7ZWat://did:plc:z233fl2onqt7wbjkolynhsi3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lblmd3yhlc2r
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionNEW: Now that Trump has won Democrats have decided that the economy is bad and Republicans that the economy is good. Does this mean that material conditions have no bearing on public opinion? Nope.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionSubscribe to Prison Journalism Project’s weekly newsletter, The Inside Story, and every Sunday you'll receive highlights of our writers’ best work. prisonjournalismproject.org/newsletter/?...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Union🚨For my inaugural post on here, check out this investigation I did recently for @dropsitenews.com Please share widely and read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-749...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Union🚨 Breaking: International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionReiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionMy far too late election take on why Bidenomics failed to win over the working class. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionMy new article for Welcome To Hell World w @lukeoneil47.bsky.social . No politician is coming to save us, not even Newsom. www.welcometohellworld.com/punishment-o...
- In Support of Platforming Palestinian Journalists freelancejournalistsunion.org/statements/2...
- /1 In response to the prevalence of Zionist propaganda regarding the State of Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, as well as deteriorating economic conditions in the West Bank due to the Israeli occupation’s escalating violence there
- /2 the Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union calls upon journalists and editors reporting on Palestine to platform Palestinian journalists as sources and to prioritize them for commissions.
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View full thread/9 As always, the IWW FJU stands in solidarity with our fellow workers in Palestine. Solidarity forever!
- Fellow workers, please fill out this form if you wish to join our online Negotiation workshop. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Fellow Workers, The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union is looking to identify publications that offer freelance contributors sub-par contracts or no contracts at all. Help us in this research by answering this brief survey and sharing it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionNew documentary from Al Jazeera Investigations @ajiunit.bsky.social on Israeli war crimes in Gaza: youtu.be/kPE6vbKix6A?...
- Fellow workers, please use and see the following resource on modeling contracts. freelancejournalistsunion.org/statements/2...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionMy union, @iwwfju.bsky.social, has asked members to suspend work on commissions & other work today, May Day, in solidarity with the strike called on April 11 by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions. I will also be participating on Nakba Day (May 15). www.patreon.com/posts/on-str...
- Strike for Palestine on May Day and Nakba Day On April 11, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions issued a call to action (www.workersinpalestine.org/news/strike-...) asking workers around the world to strike in solidarity with workers in Palestine on May Day (May 1) and 1/
- to get involved, however possible, in local actions in solidarity with Palestinians. As always, we echo the perennial IWW motto: An injury to one is an injury to all! freelancejournalistsunion.org/statements/2... 5/5
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionPortland State University Encampment, Day 4: Students are demanding PSU divest from and cut ties with Boeing.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionTexas DPS not stopping a gunman in Uvalde vs Texas DPS stopping unarmed protestors at UT
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- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionJust saw the video of cops tasing one of the kids at the Emory protest. He’s Black, on the ground w/ multiple cops restraining him and they tased him. We should be so much madder about all this. I am so angry we lied and told these kids education and college campuses would protect them.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Unionjust a reminder the far right and police works synergistically where the far right is allowed to get close enough to be massively disruptive, and use hate speech by police so police can then later turn around and use the fascist agitation as an excuse to brutally crack down on peaceful protesters
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Unionthis is a wonderful resource if you’re a student journalist one that I utilize for a long time especially in 2020 to report on the uprising. Also give the freelance journalist union a follow. They are good people.
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Unionnope nothing to see here Folks just police openly talking about how to prosecute journalists for covering their brutality against protesters. Democracy is totally healthy….
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists Union"The [USAID] memo subject line, which was seen by Devex, reads: “Famine Inevitable, Changes Could Reduce but Not Stop Widespread Civilian Deaths.” “Israel-imposed administrative challenges are preventing the delivery” of lifesaving humanitarian assistance, it adds." www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionHAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY. Go to your independent bookstore! Do it now! Buy books! Tell the booksellers they are wizards, literal wizards, bibliowizards of the highest order! High-five them lest they turn you into a bookmark for your impudence!
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- STUDENT JOURNALISTS: If you need a press pass to help you cover anti-war actions at your school, please email us! We can provide digital passes without charge ASAP! freelancejournalists+presspass@iww.org
- Solidarity with Yemeni Journalists Syndicate freelancejournalistsunion.org/statements/2... In the face of the ongoing Saudi-led war in Yemen and the recent escalation of airstrikes by the United States and others, the Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union calls 1/
- for solidarity with Yemeni journalists as they work perilously to cover the conflict. For a decade now, Saudi Arabia, with US support, has led an assault on the Yemeni people as punishment for the 2014 Houthi uprising. Despite recent attempts at normalization with Saudi Arabia, 2/
- Houthi attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea — carried out in opposition to Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza — have led to intensified retaliatory strikes by the US and its allies, further endangering both Yemeni civilians and the journalists working to catalog violence 3/
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View full threadAs always, we echo the perennial IWW motto: An injury to one is an injury to all! 6/6
- Help journalist Ben Camacho fight anti-press lawsuits! chuffed.org/project/jour...
- Reposted by IWW Freelance Journalists UnionGoFundMe shut down a fundraiser by @iwwfju.bsky.social to buy PPE for freelance journalists covering Gaza. If they slow-walk any of these, we’d love to know about it.
