Skip to content
  • About Belt
    • Staff
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
  • Pitch/Submit
TwitterInstagramFacebookEmail
Belt Magazine Logo Belt Magazine Logo
  • FEATURES
    • HISTORY
    • ARTS & CULTURE
    • POLITICS & CITY LIFE
    • ENVIRONMENT
  • ESSAYS
  • POETRY
  • COMMENTARY
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • SHOP
  • SUPPORT BELT
  • FEATURES
    • HISTORY
    • ARTS & CULTURE
    • POLITICS & CITY LIFE
    • ENVIRONMENT
  • ESSAYS
  • POETRY
  • COMMENTARY
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • SHOP
  • SUPPORT BELT

In Pittsburgh, Local Journalism Is Worth the Fight

Having two major news sources in the city owned by notoriously anti-worker management can’t be good. For local journalism to be good, local journalism jobs need to be good.

Noelle Mateer2023-01-29T10:17:21-05:00January 25, 2023|
Read More

On the Post-Gazette Picket Line

Of course, the irony here is that 30 years ago, the Post-Gazette found itself in the midst of a similar strike. And it’s the only reason the Post-Gazette is still around today.

Vince Guerrieri2022-11-16T09:18:49-05:00November 15, 2022|
Read More
  • Webb - WV Teacher's Strike

The Most Dangerous People in the Country

In 2018, a West Virginia teacher’s secret Facebook group sparked a "union renaissance” in the tradition of Mother Jones.

Jeffrey Webb2021-05-07T10:54:04-04:00April 30, 2021|
Read More
  • Flint Strike 1

Labor Lessons from the Flint Sit-Down Strike

The strike, which helped guide the UAW to prominence in the twentieth century, provides a blueprint for better working conditions and a revival of the middle class.

Edward McClelland2021-02-05T10:51:46-05:00February 2, 2021|
Read More
  • Wilson - Covid Organizing

Organizing Labor in a Pandemic

COVID-19 put a spotlight on worker vulnerability, but creates challenges for traditional in-person organizing tactics.

Hannah Lebovits2020-08-27T13:55:23-04:00May 15, 2020|
Read More
  • Pruitt-Igoe

Inside the St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969

“It touched everybody all over the country who lived in public housing.” [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]

Caitlin Lee and Clark Randall2019-06-21T15:48:10-04:00June 4, 2019|
Read More
  • 55 Strong - Full

Beyond “Trump Country”

An excerpt from 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike.

Emily Comer2019-01-03T13:18:00-05:00December 13, 2018|
Read More

This Is Why I’m Ready to Walk: Letter from a University of Michigan-Flint Lecturer

By Scott Atkinson Photograph by Erin Emory This is why I teach. I’m perhaps halfway through my digital stack of [...]

Anne Trubek2018-04-26T07:24:06-04:00April 9, 2018|
Read More

  • About Belt
  • Masthead
  • Write for Us
  • Contact Us
Copyright 2012 - 2021 Belt Magazine | All Rights Reserved
TwitterInstagramFacebookEmail