Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing and the "experience economy," and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche theater far better.

All links for union press statements and fundraisers: https://beacons.ai/nycalamounited https://cwa-union.org/news/workers-alamo-drafthouse-fight-back-against-unfair-firings

Alamo now functionally BYOB: https://x.com/cleverrgirrl/status/1891656861939650579

Audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGGgjriua4s/

Song: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

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Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke.

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Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f

Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming