Luis Brennan has spent many years organizing with the #IWW Industrial Workers of the World, including as a founding member of the #Burgerville Workers Union in #Portland, Oregon.
He is also the editor of the collection A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist (Kersplebedeb Press, 2023). He currently lives in #Garland, Texas where he is trying to be a revolutionary in the uncool suburbs.

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/after-the-gentrification-economy/

A decade after Burgerville set their policy to expressly allow bikes and pedestrians in the drivethrough, naming me in the press release as the instigator, my partner was told he couldn’t order on foot in the drivethrough (he had the dog with him) and that bikes were told to go inside before 9 pm when the inside closes. So… burgerville has reduced service to only what the law that *their policy induced* demands?

#Burgerville is this your new policy?
#bikeped
#portland

Planning on traveling to #Chicago (I already have reasons to be there and I was last there briefly in 2009) for the #Socialism2023 conference the first week in September. I look forward to some of the speakings like Robin DG Kelley, and Naomi Klein.

I live right next to a #Burgerville in #Portland (#pdx) that's unionized with the #IWW. May Day was the expiration of their contract and the picket and boycott are back on. I worked for a #union in college (#AFSCME Local 3299 in the #UC system). I'd like to get more involved both in my personal education, my ability to eventually teach #sociology at the community college level.

I have rarely been at socialist events. The last was a Repeal the 8th event in #Dublin. I was once in a socialist organization and I miss aspects of it, though it's more filled with lessons than actual effective organizing.

#DSA #socialism #socialist #conference #labor #Marxism #anarchism #organizing