Javier Morillo is the former president of SEIU Local 26, a progressive political strategist and commentator, and writer. He advises and consults in labor and philanthropy, is a research fellow with the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University, and the creator and co-host of the weekly political podcast “Wrong About Everything.”
With one of his members charged with the murder of George Floyd while three others are investigated for callously watching, president of the Minneapolis Police union Bob Kroll finally broke his silence — without breaking character. In a letter to members, Kroll justifies the killing, vows to fight for the jobs of the man indicted […]
I often joke that my graduate studies in anthropology became a life skill when I moved to Minnesota. The classic tools of the discipline — where one is traught to observe, analyze, and come to conclusions about often “exotic” other cultures — prepared me well for Life Among the Minnesotans. Some aspects of Minnesotanness will […]
