Tiffany's back! We talk rampant ticketing of outdoor eating and drinking establishments in NYC, the unemployment benefits extension (here's a cool state-by-state tracker), the potential battery charges for harassing restaurant staff (depends on state), the threat of winter to outdoor seating, the threat of wildfire pollution to outdoor seating (Muahahaaa good times in CA), and oh yeah - that declaration that New York Is Dead Forever (spoiler, some folks disagree). On the bright side - these people in SF created a zip-line bar in their apartment building, which is better than hosting illegal (but pun-tastic!) raves. 

And I have a brief chat with John Ocampo, an organizer for UE (United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, but that's a mouthful), currently based in Chicago, who talks about his time organizing restaurant workers in Miami when he worked with ROC. He's featured in this cool Fault Lines documentary about wage theft.  We talk about this article in July's Rolling Stone, this NPR piece from the beginning of the shutdown, (and here's the Trillbilly Workers Party episode trashing that NPR piece, about 30 mins in). 

Thanks again to Kevin Breidenbach for use of some tunes!

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