May 31, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
By Bennett T The United States intends to target socialists for political persecution. It will investigate them inappropriately, it will charge them spuriously, it will revoke their legal protections, and it will remove them from the United States. The administration...
May 31, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
By B. Maloney Politics permeate every aspect of our lives. While discussions may arise about distinguishing human issues from political ones, it is evident that human issues are becoming increasingly politicized. How can we protect ourselves from the overwhelming and...
May 31, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
By Rachel M Toiling to survive and a long day of labor deadens the best parts of We. Are there instructions? A guide map? How do we document the end of an empire nourished by blood, built on brazen exploitation… the thought of writing with sincerity only elicits...
May 5, 2025 | Local Issues, Statements
For the last few months, Nature’s Treatment of Illinois (NTI) has been attempting to buy a plot of land owned by the city of Rock Island, IL to build a cannabis dispensary and truck stop on a 10-acre site located adjacent to the Milan Bottoms. The Milan Bottoms...
Feb 22, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
by Morgan Hadassah I crave peace yet conflict finds me Adversity tempers my quality I am dragged from battle to battle My shine dulled red and left chipped I long to be reforged into a plow Tilling the fields instead of felling foes But right now my blade is double...
Feb 22, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
by B. Maloney Americans continue struggling to improve labor laws, create well-paying jobs, and improve health outcomes within our healthcare systems. Largely responsible for this struggle is for-profit healthcare and corporate monopolies, who through their endless...
Feb 22, 2025 | Bodily Autonomy, Quad-City Worker
by Morgan Hadassah Ways to support trans people: Ask trans people what they need. Performative allyship only goes so far Emotional support; listening, respecting, and just being a friend to the trans people in your life can go a long way. Stockpile reproductive...
Feb 22, 2025 | Labor, Quad-City Worker
by Andrew D On a frigid, blustery Christmas Eve, the workers at the Starbucks on 53rd St & Elmore Ave in Davenport stood defiant at the busy intersection. Workers at hundreds of stores organized under Starbucks Workers United had been on strike since December...
Feb 22, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
The Winter 2025 issue of our quarterly zine The Quad-City Worker is out now! You’ll hear from our authors talk about the Starbucks strike last year, the evils of the private healthcare industry, and the fight for trans liberations. Read the articles here on our...
Feb 7, 2025 | Housing Justice, Statements
On Monday, February 3rd, 2025, the Scott County Attorney announced that they would not be seeking criminal charges against locally known slumlord Andrew Wold, 43, for his role in the collapse of The Davenport. On May 28th, 2023, The Davenport, a 116-year-old apartment...
