I finally got around to reading this v helpful guide to the Anthropic lawsuit. Highly recommended if you think you might be among the countless whose work was stolen by the company to "train" its LLM chatbot Claude. Translators very much included! nwu.org/anthropic/

We signed on because as a labor union representing independent media workers, we both feel and agree that indie journalists are "particularly susceptible to retaliation, intimidation, & violence, & attacks on them should be treated w/ the same seriousness as attacks on better known journalists."

📚 Available Now: My Interview with AllAuthor! I’m honored to be featured on AllAuthor, where I share how my journey in community organizing, digital engagement, and storytelling shapes everything I write. 🔍 Read the interview allauthor.com/interview/kaceycarpenter/ @allauthor.bsky.social @nwu.org

For two years, the world has watched a genocide unfold in Gaza on our phone screens. 64,000+ Palestinians murdered by Israel. We honor the journalists in Gaza who’ve become the world's eyes & conscience, many of whom have been targeted & killed for telling the truth. 🎨: Peonica Fernando

🔴 In two years of war, over 223 Palestinian journalists have been killed in #Gaza in the deadliest period in the history of journalism. As journalists, unionists and, ultimately, humans, we cannot accept that reporters are killed amid indifference, be that in Gaza or elsewhere.

#USA: IFJ strongly denounces the deportation of journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador on 3 October, as he was targeted for his journalistic work and his exposure of ICE. @nwu.org @newsguild.org @authorsguild.org #PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotaCrime

All you really need to know about whether this Anthropic settlement is actually good for authors or not is that OpenAI is celebrating and very happy about it.

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power. We should all be outraged. freedom.press/issues/mario...

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

📚✊ The NWU Oregon Chapter gathered at Hodge Podge Books in Eugene to build solidarity, welcome potential new members, and share food, drinks & good books. Together, we’re organizing writers & allies for justice across Oregon.

Searchable list of works included in tentative settlement of #copyright #infringement lawsuit against #Anthropic AI made public: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup FAQ from the National Writers Union about what this means for writers: nwu.org/anthropic/

The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! 📍 Where: Zoom 🕢 When: Wednesday, October 8, 7:30-8:45pm ET 📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]

We agree with Murad Awawdeh of @thenyic.bsky.social who said: "Whether it’s family members attending court, community members offering court watch support, or journalists exercising their constitutional right to document events, ICE has shown a blatant disregard for human dignity and safety."

#USA: ICE agents assaulted and shoved journalists. Homeland Security said the agents’ behavior was a response to being “swarmed by agitators and members of the press”. We strongly condemn these attacks! #PressFresdom @newsguild.org @nwu.org

Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.” Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement. rsf.org/sites/defaul...

We signed on to this statement because we agree that these proposed changes would put an undue burden on journalists and have a chilling effect on media that is critical of the Trump administration.

Authors and creative workers: Look for an envelope like this to claim your share of $1.5 billion from AI thieves in a major lawsuit against Anthropic PBC. Read more about the settlement at nwu.org/anthropic

NWU's statement on the suspension and return of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show. We decry the disturbing pattern of political repression against media workers as well as the consolidation of corporate media that supports it.

Over 29,000 letters sent. The goal is 50,000. Tell ICE Director Todd Lyons: Free Mario Guevara.

The @nwu.org's Frances Madeson, reviewing my book, 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' in @deceleration.news, calls it "a rousing how-to guide for fighting corporate greed." Check out her incisive review below, then go to ORBooks.com and buy the book! deceleration.news/review-were-...

Our 1st VP @abigailhiggins.bsky.social recently joined a Free Press Action panel on the fight for local journalism. “Our main job as journalists can’t just be storytelling anymore," she said. "A primary job of journalists has to be ensuring that there's journalism for the generations that follow.”

Join us for a panel discussion exploring ideas to defend journalists and press freedom in Gaza, co-sponsored by @freedom.press and Columbia Journalism School. 📌 @columbiajournalism.bsky.social, NYC 🗓️ Thursday, 6-8 pm ET RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/urgent-ide... And save the link to watch live ⬇️

Yesterday marked 100 days of journalist Mario Guevara’s detention by U.S. law enforcement for livestreaming. Guevara, the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, faces the very real threat of deportation for doing his job. We demand Mario’s immediate release. freedomformario.com #FreeMario

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting. He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job. We demand his immediate release. freedomformario.com

He was arrested despite wearing a clearly marked press vest & identifying himself as a journalist. As we stated in June, Mario’s arrest is a product of the fascist anti-immigrant campaign being waged by the Trump admin & the intensified attacks on media workers & journalism. nwu.org/free-mario-g...

Prosecutors must drop charges against two Cincinnati journalists arrested while covering a protest. Their jury trials are scheduled in just a couple weeks. A coalition of rights groups and journalism professors explained why this prosecution is so dangerous.

Catch me being interviewed by @nwu.org's @pochohetman.bsky.social on Downtown Radio-Tucson, 99.1 FM, about my new book, *We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics* @orbooks.bsky.social Podcast right here: open.spotify.com/episode/2K4H...

The deadliest massacre of journalists in years in what the Yemeni Journalists Union called a "direct targeting".

NEW: POLITICO’s top editors testified that its AI experiments don’t need to follow the newsroom’s own editorial standards. If media execs won’t protect journalism standards, NewsGuild members @pen-guild.bsky.social will! www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

Today, Prism is publishing a monthslong investigation by @laubast.bsky.social in partnership with Visualizing Palestine, that takes a deep dive into the experiences of repression that Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists face in the U.S. while attempting to cover the genocide.

Let's rebuild local news! ✊🏼

Happy Labor Day today seems like a good day to tell you to support independent, worker-owned media—especially worker-owned media that works with @nwu.org to protect freelancers—like @theflytrapmedia.com and I'll let @freeblackgirl.bsky.social tell you more.

Our members in Ohio turned out to protest mainstream media's failure to cover Israel's starvation of Gaza, instead peddling propaganda advanced by Israeli officials to justify their crimes. 📸: Drew Parker

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

Solidarity and gratitude to our comrades at @amejaglobal.bsky.social for backing this statement. Let's keep the funds moving into the IFJ Safety Fund to ensure material protections for Palestinian media workers: bit.ly/supportPJS

Over at the National Writer's Union (@nwu.org), we continue to support our sibling union in Palestine and fund efforts to protect Palestinian journalists and ensure a thriving Palestinian media in the future. You, too, can help out with a donation here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Unions demand accountability for killing of Al Jazeera journalists. The News Guild and National Writers Union insist on Israeli accountability for killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza #news #journalism peoplesworld.org/article/unio...

Israel is carrying out the largest massacre of journalists & media workers in modern history,& the most dangerous attack on the ideal of a free press in the modern era. Donate to the IFJ Safety Fund to support our colleagues & sibling union, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. bit.ly/supportPJS

Mario Guevara is now the 5th longest-jailed journalist in U.S. history. Sign & share this petition from his daughter, Katherine, to bring him home. "If a government can punish a reporter for doing his job, what message does this send? What protections are left for the rest of us?" chng.it/8HfJqdW75h

This was good, btw. You should go to the next one if you’re interested ✨

🥳🥳🥳 Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar: Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined. literarytranslators.org/event/nwupre...

✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48 ✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in ✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons ✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More *better working conditions 4 literary translators*

“Journalists are being deliberately targeted to erase evidence and prevent accountability for war crimes. This is not just an attack on press freedom it is an assault on the public’s right to know and to seek justice” @nwu.org & News Guild on journalist killings in Gaza newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

NEW: Israel targeted and killed five @aljazeera.com journalists in Gaza. They risked everything to document atrocities so we could know the truth. Killing them is an attack on journalism itself. With @nwu.org, we demand accountability: newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

Journalists of the @ifjglobal.bsky.social, @nwu.org members among them, have been speaking out from the beginning. nwu.org/statement-fr...

It is no coincidence that one of his final posts called out Israel’s open threats of a full-scale invasion of Gaza. Israel continues to systematically silence the voices who bring the truth of their actions to the world.

We stand with our fellow @ifjglobal.bsky.social members at the Somali Media Association in condemning the unlawful detention of journalists. soma.org.so/soma-condemn...

The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! 📍 Where: Zoom 🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET 📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]

Celebrate values-aligned independent media with a subscription to this great new union-backed publication! P.S. We're the union.