At The Nation:

Elizabeth, NJ—About sixty activists gathered early this morning outside the Port of Newark to protest the arrival of a ship they said carried Walmart goods from Bangladesh. Hoisting cardboard tombstones spelling out Walmart’s name, and garments emblazoned with the names of workers who died in the New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the crowd declared the retail giant culpable for the deaths of 112 workers in a similar fire last month in Bangladesh. Chants included, “One, two three four, don’t let that boat come ashore! Five, six, seven, eight, don’t touch that shit, don’t move that freight!”

“The supply chain needs to change…” Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN) organizer Martiza Silva-Farrell told the crowd. “This is a start.”

Read it here.

I’m excited to share that my Walmart reporting for The Nation received a Sidney award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Here’s the information.

I was on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show this morning, with Bob King and Ed Ott, to discuss what “Right to Work” does and why it passed in Michigan. Here’s the video: Part 1; Part 2.

Here’s the audio.

Thom Hartmann had me on to discuss the global day of action. Here’s the video.

I was on Al-Jazeera’s Inside Story, with Bill Fletcher Jr., discussing “Right to Work” in Michigan. Here’s the video.

Here’s the video.

Here’s the audio.

Dorian Warren and I discussed the significance of the strikes, the arguments of Walmart’s defenders, and what comes next. Here’s the video.

At The Nation:

Today Walmart workers are demonstrating at the company headquarters in Argentina; marching through Miami, Florida, and Santiago, Chile; leafleting customers in Nicaragua; rallying outside stores in Brazil, India and South Africa; and delivering a letter to the head office of Walmart’s UK subsidiary ASDA.

As I reported yesterday, actions are planned today in ten countries, on five continents, as part of a Global Day of Action in protest of alleged retaliation against workers who are organizing in the United States. The protests are a project of global union federation UNI, the US union-affiliated Making Change at Walmart campaign and the union-backed worker group OUR Walmart.

“It’s wonderful to know that Walmart workers around the world are standing with us,” Jesus Vargas told reporters on a noon conference call. “Our actions affect not just Americans, but our customers and workers around the world.” Vargas, who worked for Walmart in Placerville, California, and joined OUR Walmart two years ago, is among the workers who have filed National Labor Relations Board charges alleging they were illegally fired for their activism. UNI has expressed concern that, if left unchecked, Walmart’s alleged abuses in the United States could spread to more workers in other countries.

Here’s the rest.

At The Nation.