Folks,
Payday may be a small labor publication based in Pittsburgh, but we have a big impact on how the corporate media covers news both locally and overseas.
This week, top CNBC reporter Carl Quintalla, a Peabody Award winner, sent out Payday’s story entitled “U.S. Unions Demand Venezuelan Oil Be Imported On American Ships” to his 246,000 followers on Bluesky.
Above the article, Quintalla, wrote “Ah, no doubt the first of many instances where we ask: who exactly are we trying to help here — the Venezuelans or ourselves?”
While much of the American press has neglected to cover how Latin Americans are fighting back against Trump, Payday has published 5 articles in the last two weeks on the subject. Now, I am getting ready to leave for Latin America in less than two weeks and need your support.
Check out the six articles on Latin America that we have written in the past week that you could not find anywhere else:
- “U.S. Unions Demand Venezuelan Oil Be Imported On American Ships”
- “Pittsburgh Labor Lawyer Representing Colombian President Petro as Venezuela Crisis Deepens”
- “Lula's Investment in Anti-Fascist Brazilian Films Wins Big at Golden Globes”
- “Colombian Prez Praises U.S. Workers’ Solidarity”
- “Lula to Mediate Venezuela Crisis”
- Trump suspends Brazilian Immigration.
At a time when many outlets don’t have enough budget to deploy reporters on the ground in Latin America, Payday coincidentally has a reporter with decades of experience in Brasil. More than 20 years ago, I attended college at PUC-Rio de Janeiro and still stay with my old host family to save money when reporting from Brazil.
I am fluent in Portuguese and have extensive experience covering both the Brazilian labor movement and Lula on the ground in Brasil. My reporting was recognized when I got invited by Lula’s staff to go inside the Oval Office to cover Lula’s state visit with Biden in 2023.
I have extensive contacts throughout the Brazilian labor movement and could do amazing reporting on the organizing happening there against Trump. But I don’t have the budget to do the scale of reporting that I would like to do in Latin America.
If I could raise an additional $3,000, we could do some incredible reporting and I could foc fundraising. At the same time, I will continue to put out newsletters, mixing updates on labor struggles in the United States with updates on how workers are fighting back against Trump in Latin America.
Sadly, while I can find freelance outlets that will pick up coverage of tire workers striking in Ohio, it's nearly impossible to find outlets that commission any foreign freelance work, even if a veteran reporter can cover their own travel costs as I am. So, I am going to need your help.
Payday has always prided itself on being able to address the struggles in both the Rust Belt and Latin America. We need your help with on-the-ground reporting that so few US outlets do in Latin America.
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