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    • 5604 Manor

      5604 Manor serves as a common ground for grassroots social change, providing organizing, meeting, educational, performance, and lecture space for community members and groups committed to social justice. To use the space, complete the Rental Application and email it to lucian@workersdefense.org, or bring the application to 5604 Manor.

      Click here to download the Rental Application.

       

      • What we’re up to:

      • “Apocalyptic Journalism” and Why We Need Reporters to Face the Reality of Our Crumbling Society

        In his essay “The collapse of journalism and the journalism of collapse: From royal, to prophetic, to apocalyptic,” UT professor Robert Jensen uses those theological terms to talk about the challenge facing secular journalism: We have no choice but to deal with the collapse of journalism, but we also should recognize the need for a [...]

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      • New Job Opening in our Austin Office!

        The Workers Defense Project’s Austin office is looking for a strategic researcher to impact public policy and the Texas construction...

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      • Arguing for Our Lives

        In Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog, published by City Lights, Third Coast co-founder and University of Texas professor Robert Jensen explores the anxiety and anguish so many feel in the face of economic and ecological crises on a global scale, when the stakes that seem higher than ever before. In [...]

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      • WDP in the Daily Texan!

        WDP made it in the news for the offer submitted to UT officials demanding the UT community to stand up...

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