Green Corn Catechism is my newsletter about the intersections of faith & power. Rooted in Oklahoma history and labor theology, you’ll find dispatches from organizing & work in community, and essays that try to take seriously the prophetic tradition as well as the particulars of life on the ground.

“Peter Maurin was often the most learned man in most any room he entered, and usually the poorest. Before he co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933, the peasant Maurin had fled France to avoid mandatory military conscription…” open.substack.com/pub/zakkflas...

Faith and Worker Justice — a May Day panel with Oklahoma Faith Network For May Day 2026, Oklahoma Faith Network’s Kat Romero sat down me & Father Lance for a conversation about the deep roots connecting faith traditions and the rights of working people. #MayDay #IWD substack.com/@zakkflash/n...

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Faith and Worker Justice — a May Day panel with Oklahoma Faith Network For May Day 2026, Oklahoma Faith Network’s Kat Romero sat down with @Fr. Lance Schmitz of the Church of the Redeemer and @Zakk F...

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“And instead being told to ‘quit, find a better job if you don’t like it’ they have the fortitude to stay and force the company to make this job a better job — not just for themselves, but for everyone who takes the job next.” Me, on #SBWorkersUnited in #TheGayly: www.gayly.com/fight-isn%E2...

It’s Day 42 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Observers were everywhere today- keeping an eye on our neighborhoods and community. Whistles and honking warned vulnerable neighbors, and drew responders to active scenes. And when ICE leaves a block, we hug strangers and check in on each other.

The strongest alphas in the world are terrified to death of a woman going 3mph in an SVU that has stuffed animals in it.

Ashanti Alston is one of the elder radicals that has shown me that it is possible to grow older, stick around on the left, keep learning, and make genuine contributions - all with a spirit of joy and care. Check out this deeply reflective interview with him on @thedugoutpod.bsky.social!

I’ve been writing an annual column for 20 years on the year in sports and politics. Here’s this year’s edition. Short version: 2025 was the fucking worst. But maybe 2026 sees a turnaround that’s already being glimpsed in unlikely places www.thenation.com/article/soci...

In a Year of Violent Tumult, the Sports World Was Silent

When the country needed them to speak out, most athletes kept mum—and a few openly embraced embraced Trumpism.

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The 2024 doc "Union," about unionizing efforts at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse, is now streaming on @means.tv. #AmazonTeamsters #AmazonLaborUnion

UNION

Facing one of the worlds most powerful corporations, a group of Amazon workers launches an unprecedented fight to unionize their Staten Island warehouse in New York City.

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Looking back on the damage done by DOGE in 2025, investigative editor Maureen Tkacik writes that although Elon Musk was the figurehead, “the real dirty work was done by Tom Krause, a veteran private equity hatchet man in the Neutron Jack mold.” trib.al/i1DEsnn

Miami Occupied Government - The American Prospect

Our investigative editor’s handpicked stories for 2025

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This is what happens when you put people in charge of Social Security whose goal is to break Social Security: fired workers, corners cut, and the people who depend on it pay the price.

How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump

Customer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.

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“There's no ‘we’ of the Anthropocene. There's no single climate, there isn't even shared temporality: climate crisis is present for some, future for others, non-event for the wealthiest. We’re not ‘all in this together.’”

We’re Not in This Together | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

One of the most common misconceptions concerning climate change is that it produces, or even requires, a united humanity.

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#OtD 30 Dec 1930 Indigenous hacienda workers in Ecuador went on strike and were joined by others working nearby, demanding better pay and conditions. Govt sent in troops but the workers held firm and won concessions, sparking a wave of rural protest stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1027...

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Workplace organising basics

Learn about the workplace, talk to colleagues, and form an organising team to build workers’ power. This is a first in a mini-series of articles where we try to demystify workplace organising by pr…

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The ‘politics of eternity’, says Timothy Snyder, is nostalgia for a mythical past. Putin blames the West, Trump blames migrants, Reform UK blames both. Truth doesn’t matter, only enemies. A thought-provoking read by Marc Ainge ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @marcainge.bsky.social

The politics of eternity: weaponising moments that never were

Donald Trump is the global face of a growing political movement that deceives voters by distorting history

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Recklessly firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because you don’t like the new jobs numbers won’t do a thing to change the clear and simple fact: President Trump’s policy choices are costing hardworking Americans their jobs.

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BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

#OtD 1 Aug 1907 Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto, a coal miner and anarchist later executed for attempting to assassinate Mussolini, was born. This is a short biography: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8046...

Ring cameras are the devil. Amazon now "partnering with Axon to build a new tool that would allow police to request Ring footage directly from users, and also allow users to consent to letting police livestream directly from their device" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

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— DCA ✈️ OKC with Marcy & #TeamFlash #UNION flight via SWAPA & Transport Workers Union/TWU Local 556 Thank you to all the working people who make it all possible. We see you and we appreciate you! #SolidarityInTheSkies #LaborConquersAll #SWAPA #TWU #TWU556

Eight hours for sleep — Eight hours for work — Eight hours for WHAT WE WILL! We fought for time off, fought to be with our families instead of at the beck & call of the boss; we won back some small measure of our time — and rn I feel satisfied in enjoying every bit of the fruits of our labor.

No More Kings By Schoolhouse Rock #NoKings

Guys like this mostly steal from workers (this guy overcharges tired mall parents for flavorless kid bribes) — but this particular guy (who’s been arrested for DUI, domestic assault, & sued for revenge porn blackmail) got tired of being cooped up at home & did… this. #RichDick #OKC #COOPBrewery

NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

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Labor Pope! Labor Pope!

Congrats to our shows Better Offline and Weird Little Guys on their #WEBBY AWARDS! 🏆🏆 Big thanks to our listeners and everyone who voted @edzitron.com @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

In 2015, we republished Pope Francis's second encyclical, in which he takes aim at the heart of the world’s problems: capitalism. It has been, and will remain, free to download.

Encyclical on Capitalism and Inequality

In his most radical encyclical to date, Pope Francis takes aim at the heart of the world’s problems: capitalism. Impassioned and wide-ranging, and citing the overwhelming evidence for the human suffer...

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Pope Francis was a global voice for dignity, justice, and solidarity. His unwavering support for workers' rights and justice for the poor and dispossessed are seeds of a better tomorrow. We may yet see a more bountiful harvest, amongst all the muck. #PopeFrancis #Solidarity #CatholicWorker

This is INTOLERABLE CRUELTY.

BREAKING: We're urging the Supreme Court to block the nation’s first religious public charter school in Oklahoma. The Constitution is clear: Public schools are not for religious instruction.

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