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Shea Gannon, a former Starbucks’ col league of Tambellini’s who was also recently fired after joining their union says the pan demic was “a big catalyst for a lot of people.”
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Having worked as a barista throughout the coronavirus pandemic years, Tambellini helped found the union for Starbucks’ Market Square location this spring, after organizers from other shops convinced her it could give staff a voice in workplace issues they’d long felt excluded from. She was fired six weeks later in a move she sees as thinly disguised retribution from her employer. Instead of feeling cowed, though, Tambellini feels confident and energized.“Itwashonestly the worst union-busting strategy ever because I now have a job as an organizer with Workers United,” Tambellini tells Pittsburgh City Paper.
On Tuesday, staff members at Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting sister radio sta tions WESA and WYEP became the latest in a wave of organizing service workers that has swept through Pittsburgh and the country during the last few years. Many of the leaders in recent unionization efforts say the drastic economic upheaval imposed during the early pandemic months shed new light on longhidden inequities within the service industry, creating an opening for needed change.
The employees at WYEP and WESA filed to unionize with the support of national media representatives SAG-AFTRA, joining KDKA-TV producers who joined the guild in 2021, and workers at WPXI who announced an intention to join in February 2022.
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SIX MONTHS AGO, Tori Tambellini barely knew what a union was; now, the recent college graduate wants to devote her career to the labor movement.
"I hope that they’re going to recognize that this is something that’s good for the whole organization," says Rosemary Welsch, host of WYEP’s Afternoon Mix, who’s worked for the company since 1981. "This is not against anything, it is for something."
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In turn, Martin says, workers are using their education and training to outwit com placent corporations.
In response, Tambellini says, organizers are focusing on boosting their ranks to help shift the balance of power away from corpo rate management and toward the more than 200,000 shop employees.
Pennsylvania formed a union in March 2021, requesting better pay and more resources long before the recent Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision heaped new demands on reproductive health care workers in states like Pennsylvania, where abortion remains legal.
“I think a year from now, I’d like to see us continue to grow at the rate we’re cur rently growing,” she says during an interview immediately after the coffee chain’s Hampton location became the latest local store to win a unionStarbuckselection.is
A few months later, 3,355 librarians and faculty formed a bargaining committee at the University of Pittsburgh through United Steelworkers, the Pittsburgh-based labor behemoth that has also led new unions for faculty at Duquesne, Point Park, and Robert Morris Universities, and also backs more than 300 Carnegie Library workers, who won a new contract earlier this year.
Lou Martin, a labor historian at Chatham University, says the emergence of these new union chapters reflects broader economic changes since the era of big coal and steel.
Last summer, 65 Pittsburgh-based tech workers contracted by Google won a threeyear contract more than two years after they formed a union to fight for better pay and benefits. In July, workers at medical mari juana dispensary Cresco Sunnyside voted to join a Keystone State union of United Food and Commercial Workers. In other cases, workers at small, privatelyowned companies like South Side print shop Commonwealth Press and Pittsburgh-based coffee chain Coffee Tree Roasters have also recently joined the ranks of organized labor.
So far, 11 Starbucks stores have unionized in the Pittsburgh area since the first success ful Workers United chapter formed in Buffalo last December, giving the Steel City outsized representation among the roughly 300 union locations nationwide. No stores have yet won contracts, and reports from across the country suggest Starbucks is taking a hardline stance in hopes of stomping out the nascent movement.
But the latest wave of organizing hasn’t yet registered a reliable upward curve in union member numbers, which remain well below their high water mark in the mid-20th century.
Since 1964, for instance, union members nationwide have fallen from slightly under one-third share of the workforce to just one in 10 today, according to data gathered by economists Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson. In Pennsylvania, a state with deep labor roots, the same data shows union membership has fallen from about 38% of the working population in 1964 to around 13% in are using
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just one of many service industry organizations where workers are unionizing in Pittsburgh and beyond.
“[Corporations are] benefiting so much from our hard work,” Gannon adds, “and it really feels like we’re being hung out to dry.”
“I think the whole economy has shifted in some ways toward service, retail, distribu tion, those kinds of workers,” Martin tells City Paper. “And then the second group you have is librarians and university employees and pro fessional classes. And one of the things they share, I think, in general, is both groups are probably pretty well educated.”
CP PHOTO: JARED WICKERHAM A union rally for workers of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania on July 26, 2022.
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The tools of social media enable workers to expose the sorts of employer harassment that once took place behind closed doors, and win public support for their cause.
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Stephen Laskaris, president of the Carnegie Library system’s USW Local 9562, says many in his union were spurred on by the influence of union successes at local“Theuniversities.connections between organi zations form a virtuous cycle,” he says, adding that they always try to turn out for events hosted by Starbucks workers because they view themselves “as part of a larger labor movement in Pittsburgh.”
CP PHOTO: PAM SMITH Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey speaking at a union rally outside of Coffee Tree Roasters on Jan. 30, 2022.
“Today,motives.unions have been swept into dusty corners of the U.S. workforce, such as Las Vegas casino cleaners and New York City hotel staff,” Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson proclaims. But the energetic organizers shaking up Pittsburgh’s coffee scene and its eds and meds corridor believe they’re part of a sustained resurgence in union influence nationwide.“Wesee a whole slew of people from all walks of life who are coming in to show their support for the union,” Gannon says. “Which shows to me how public opinion is really swaying towards labor.”
Maria Somma, organizing director for the United Steelworkers, began diversify ing the international labor union’s mem bership long before the recent surge of service worker organizing. She was brought on about 20 years ago to help
Tambellini says the appearance of Steelworkers at an early union rally marked a turning point in their organiz ing efforts, particularly for older baristas, who, she says, were initially skeptical of younger employees’ calls to unionize.
2021. After falling precipitously during the latter 20th century, both state and national membership levels have essen tially flatlined during the last decade. The steady attrition of organized labor since the 1960s had led to a general con sensus by the early 2000s that the move ment would never regain its former vigor. A 2012 Atlantic article, Who Killed American Unions, is typical of its moment, where the movement was presumed dead, and studying its corpse could serve only to better understand its killers and their
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OUR RIGHT TO UNIONIZE is protected by federal law. The National Labor Relations Act guarantees your legal right to join or form a union without your employer’s interfer ence, restraint, or coercion, and to engage in collective bargain ing, which is when a committee of workers negotiates on behalf of the whole group. In most workplaces (see NLRB.gov for more on excep tions), a union is formed if a majority of employees agree to unite. Based on our survey of union websites and how-to guides, this is generally how that process works. WikiHow offers a useful guide that goes into greater detail. Talk to your coworkers about working conditions, wages, and benefits to see if others want to improve job conditions.
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Talk to a union representative. It’s possible to form an indepen dent union comprised of just you and your coworkers, but many people suggest contacting an existing union for support since they often have resources (like experienced organizers) to help workers trying to unionize. It might take a bit of research to determine which union to reach out to. Uniontrack.com has a blog post with more information about navigating that decision. If a majority of employees decide to unionize and commu nicate this to management, their employer may choose to recog nize the union and start contract negotiations. But if your manage ment refuses to voluntarily rec ognize the union, then you’ll have to have an election through the National Labor Relations Board. To get an NLRB election , you need to submit a petition with the signatures of at least 30% of all eligible employees. If the majority of those who vote in the election vote “yes,” the NLRB will certify your union as a collective bargaining unit, with which your employer is legally required to engage in good-faith negotiations.
Maria Somma, organizing director for the United Steelworkers
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USW recruit members in the health care sector that she and others describe as the natural heir to the decimated steel industry. “I look at today in the city of Pittsburgh, and the mills that used to be here, that used to employ hundreds of thousands of workers, those mills have been replaced by eds and meds,” Somma tells City Paper. “I call the eds and meds economy the steel mills of today … So our [indus trial model] has remained true, but the employ ers that we choose now may look differently than U.S.SommaSteel.” has helped form the university and library unions under the USW banner and says she stands with Starbucks and other hospitality organizers aligned with different union struc tures. But she says the future hinges largely on whether federal laws and policies will bend to the surging grassroots movement.
Summer Lee, a state representative and con gressional candidate, says the recent organizing efforts are working “hand-in-hand” with a “wave of progressive electoral organizing” that swept her into office in 2018.
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Lee similarly says the labor move ment rests on the strength and diversity of its adherents. “We can only deliver on the promises of our progressive move ment with a strong multiracial, multi generational labor movement by our side,” she says. “From successful orga nizing at Amazon to Starbucks right here in Pittsburgh, workers are meeting the 21st century moment for our labor move ment and now Congress must codify that organizing power into law." •
The shift in workforce representation is also presaging a shift in union politics and identity.
Follow news editor Jamie Wiggan on Twitter @JamieWiggan telling politicians exactly what they need,” Lee tells City Paper in an email.
According to Martin, a package of amendments made to the 1935 National Labor Act by a Republican congress in 1947 left unions permanently vulnerable to so-called union-busting tactics.
Historically, Martin says, rank and file union members were often left in the dark by a small group of insiders who headed their bargaining strategies. The sense of disenfranchisement this generated weak ened unions’ internal unity, and in turn, their external leverage.
In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt assembled a powerful voting coalition known as the New Deal Democrats that cemented the relation ship between his party and the working class, prompting more than a decade of steady labor gains. According to a 2008 paper by the Brookings Institute tracing the history of the white working class, the New Deal era began to attract Black voters — who mostly still sided with Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party — to the Democratic Party, but as a whole, labor culture remained predominantly white, and largely moderate, or even
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“I call the eds and meds economy the steel mills of today."
“You’re already dealing with some people who are frustrated and cynical, you know, and if unions turn out to be just as closed and undemocratic as corpora tions, I think you’ll see a lot of this could just be a blip,” he says. “And I hope that’s not the case.”
Known as the Taft-Harley Act, the amendment weakened the initial leg islation in several ways, most keenly, Martin says, by repealing a provision that formerly prohibited employers from attempting to influence workers during negotiations. “And so that opened the door to all kinds of propaganda being showered on employees,” he says. Later, Martin says, consultancy firms exploited these weaknesses, finding a reliable cash cow in corporations looking to crush organized labor.
conservative on social issues in the decades to Somma,come.aVietnam native, says today’s union workers, particularly outside the manufacturing sector, lean much more progressive than their New Deal ancestors. In recognition of this shift, Somma says USW adopted a string of inclusive language and policies during its most recent annual convention in early August.
But now, Martin says, the tools of social media enable workers to expose the sorts of employer harassment that once took place behind closed doors, and win public support for their cause.
“To see the transition of really kind of open arms and acceptance of a lot of things that people wouldn’t traditionally think about in an industrial union has been a wonderful experience for me,” she says. “Because I’m an immigrant.”
Now, rather than “the old cigarchomping kind of union boss” of times past, Martin says, emerging unions should be wary of “the guy who rose through the ranks and wears the three-piece suit and has lawyers and researchers on the nego tiating team.”
“Now, it's Congress' duty to deliver on those promises to workers and unions, first and foremost by passing the PRO Act and ensuring that every worker's right to form a union is protected at the federal level, and[then] reverse the antiworker ‘right-to-work’ laws in 27 states across America.”
Martin says for the emerging service worker movement to build enduring political clout, it will need to learn other lessons from past labor failures.
“So I would say that with social media, the HR departments and anti-union law firms have been outmaneuvered,” he says.
When did you first become aware of COVID? I first became aware of COVID in March 2020, when everything started to shut down and it really started to affect aspects of everyday life. Like many others, I thought, and hoped, that a two-week lock down would curb the spread of the virus.
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I have this conversation often, but two recent times stand out: One was when a family member was getting an honorary doctoral degree from a local university, and another one was an award event where I was being honored. Heartbroken, I did not attend either event because if any pandemic protec tions existed, they are weak at best. It doesn’t help someone like me, a person with a sensitive immune system, if people are only masked as they walk through a door and then proceed to take off the mask to eat, drink, and be merry. To add to all of this is Long COVID, or its more technical name, a post-acute sequela of SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But what does that mean? It means that some people who have gotten COVID are experiencing long-term symptoms — including fatique, breathing difficulties, muscle and chest pain, brain fog headaches, and a fast heart rate — anywhere from weeks to months after they’ve initially recovered.
While we are still learning how long is Long COVID, a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that it has “potentially affected up to 23 million Americans, pushing an estimated 1 million people out of work.”
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No one is asking for lockdowns or shutdowns. Since COVID is airborne and multiple infections may add to greater longterm health risks, simple mitigations like indoor masking, air purification, frequent hand washing, vaccinations, and boosters make a big difference. If all of these had been in place I could have seen my dad get his doctorate and collect my Iaward.wanted to turn this month’s column over to people who are dealing with Long COVID as a way to inspire others to do the best for each other. The following interviews have been condensed for space and clarity.
What protections did you follow before getting COVID? When we first traveled to South Carolina in mid-March to look at apartments, we masked, wore gloves, used an obscene amount of hand sanitizer, and practiced social distancing. This has been kept up since then, although we gradually dropped the gloves. When vaccines and boosters were offered to the public, we didn’t hesitate to sign up. When we eventually started eating at restaurants again, we only did so on outside patios. I work a public-facing job, but we still take all necessary precautions with mask-wearing and social distancing.
Rich is a Pittsburgh native from the North Side who currently lives in Beaufort, S.C. where he is a park ranger. Rich Condon
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How did you deal with the initial lockdown? Honestly for us, with two full-time jobs, four kids, some with disabilities, it was pure hell. There were not many of those sweet “hunkered down at home” moments I saw others post about. My kids really had a tough time, and I lost my temper way too much, and I was very thankful when the weather broke and we could go hiking. We spent a lot of time lost in the woods, and it was our saving grace. When did you have COVID? We got it in November 2020. I got it from someone caring for our children because, at that point, we did need and feel okay about outside help. They were being
something the doctors have had difficulty figuring out. My symptoms have changed slightly since June, as I’m slowly gaining energy as time goes on. The shortness of breath comes and goes, while the palpitations are about as common as they were shortly after I recovered. I, at least, find some consolation in news a good friend shared with me — his palpitations dissipated two years after he initially contracted COVID in 2020. What’s the message you would like to tell people about COVID?
I just finished wearing a heart monitor for a week, and am scheduled to have an echocardiogram, in an attempt to figure out if there’s any permanent damage to my heart. Unfortunately, it’s
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Just a few weeks after I recovered, I visited the ER, as my doctor suggested I get checked out as soon as possible. I reported having continued shortness of breath, severe heart palpitations, and overall exhaustion. After several rounds of blood work, the doctor told me they’ve been seeing these symptoms in postCOVID patients, and reported that they’re indicative of Long COVID. How have you dealt with these issues?
When did you first learn about COVID?
I tested positive for COVID on May 16, 2022, just a week after I attended my college graduation ceremony in West Virginia. Although I wore a mask to the event, it’s the largest gathering of people I’d been around since early 2020. To my knowledge, it’s the only time I’ve had it.
Meg is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and four children. Meg St-Esprit
A lot of folks don’t factor in, it is not just a 10-day quarantine. For a lot of cases, you’ll be living with this for months, maybe years afterward. And it sucks. I don’t have nearly the same energy as I had before MayMy2022.dad died in June 2019, just eight months before the start of the pandemic. I often think about how he’d feel about this situation if he were alive today. Although I really miss him, I’m also thankful he doesn’t have to see how the state of things has deteriorated since his passing.
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Are you aware of how you got COVID?
When did you become aware you had Long COVID?
I remember my then-8-year-old son was worried about it, and kept telling me about this virus in China. I told him he was being silly. Then all of a sudden, it was here. I remember being in the 7-11 on 65 in Emsworth and thinking “Can I touch anything?” The next day, the lock down began.
A lot of folks don’t factor in, it is not just a 10-day quarantine. For a lot of cases, you’ll be living with this for months, maybe years afterward. And it sucks.
careful, and I don’t fault them at all. These things happen. What was your experience with COVID? I cannot even describe how sick I felt. I haven’t been that sick for that many days, ever. My fever was 104-105 for, like, a week. I was delirious. I don’t really remember most of it. We all had it, all six of us, but I was by far the sickest. I went to the ER once for fluids and was sent home. Then every one around me started to get better, and I wasn’t. In December, we went to the Carnegie Science Center. I figured we had a period of immunity, why not go do something? And I couldn’t make it up those spiral ramps. We got to the body floor, and I put my hands on that heart rate sensor, and my heart rate was erratic and wild.
I went to my PCP, and they sent me straight to the ER. I spent a week in AGH with three blood clots, as well as issues with anemia, which I have never had an issue with, but they have seen tied to some COVID issues. I spent the next several months on anticoagulants with regular scans, and continue to have anemia issues that need regular iron infusions. Have you continued to feel any health issues as a result of having COVID? The ongoing anemia and brain fog are the
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I don’t know much about what they’ve done for Long COVID.
What, if any, protections do you use now? My whole family is vaccinated. My husband and I are boosted, and my kids are getting a booster before school this fall. I wanted to see if an Omicronspecific booster for kids would come out. My youngest is 4, and is getting her shots now. I watched the first shots go into arms in NYC from my hospital bed in December 2020 and cried with relief and anger — relief that it was here, anger that it came too late for me. I was one of the first group to get my shot due to being high risk. I am so sad that so many have been tricked and duped by internet rumors into thinking the vaccine is harmful. I am skeptical about everything, actu ally read the pamphlets when my kids get a vaccine, and yet I trust my doctor and I trust the science. We mask when required or when a friend asks us to, when
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It’s all been terrible, all administrations, from Trump to Biden. Trump downplay ing it was bad, Biden touting that he can “still work” while he has it sends the message that it’s no big deal. It’s all bad.
What are your thoughts as we are able to enter a new school year? I am not anxious about my kids being back in school. Kids need to be educated and be social. We should have prioritized schools over bars and restaurants all along. My kids are vaccinated and I’ve done all I can do. Thankfully, the threat for them from COVID is low, and we will do our best to test and isolate when ill. COVID is here to stay; we can’t keep them home forever.
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I feel like I am off my game, confused at times, forget things. main ones. I know that there are many reasons women my age become anemic. I’ve had gastric bypass, which can cause anemia, and have a uterus, which is another source of anemia (menstruating). However, despite all that, I’ve never had issues before and have had repeated blood work for years. It was very, very sudden with the onset of COVID. My hemoglobin was 4.2 when I showed up at the ER. That is critically low. I was at risk of cardiac arrest. The brain fog has been the worst part for me, though, as a journalist. I feel like I am off my game, confused at times, forget things. More so than “mom brain.” It’s hard to describe. It’s worst in the evenings, and I’ve seen it described in some Long COVID groups as feeling similar to the sundowning elderly dementia patients experience late in the day. It’s like my brain is just done for the day. I also apparently have a broken sense of smell. Some days, it’s fine; some days, I can miss a stinky pile of dog pop right next to me, or something that should smell good smells like rotting meat or wet cigarettes.
I have to admit since I’ve been sick, the masks give me a vertigo-type feeling after a few hours. What are your thoughts on how local and national government and public health policy have handled COVID mitigation and surges, as well as Long COVID?
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ICA galleries. Instead, they are treated to a small, but carefully curated selec tion of works representing the whole of from a porthole triptych of pop art to a series of projections that explore sexism in the arts using classical music.
Chodos believes that the Birnbaum exhibition comes at a time when “the media’s role in shaping American culture and politics is more potent than ever.”
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The second floor immediately entrances with “Arabesque Opus 18,” a classical work by 19th-century German
relatively young medium. While the first broadcast dates back to 1928, the technology did not become widely avail able to Americans until decades later.
Despite the apparent influence of television on Birnbaum, viewers will find few screens of its type in the Miller
The exhibition, which also includes a new Birnbaum work set to debut on Sun., Sept. 25, reviews her interrogations
“This steady diet of information, delivered through ubiquitous and pervasive tech nology, wields enormous power globally.”
over 11 hours a day interacting with media.
The first floor features “Mirroring,” a single-channel, black-and-white, silent video work from 1975 in which Birnbaum makes herself the subject. Nearby, an old Samsung SyncMaster LCD monitor sits atop a display of speculative fiction and other works focused on the year 2023. The latter represents a wide range of pieces, from cheap paperbacks to CD-ROM games and cassette audiobooks, as well as printouts from the fringes of the internet. It also includes “A Letter From the Future,” a letter from an unknown author to her daughter, sourced from the website gos pelweb.net (Googling it reveals a page crammed with links and text in a mindboggling array of font types and colors). It all culminates in a video playing on the Samsung flat screen.
“Now media’s overall influence has only strengthened,” says Chodos, adding that, in 2018, the Nielsen Total Audience
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CP PHOTO: AMANDA WALTZ Dara Birnbaum: Journey at Miller ICA of mass media during a “period of time when technological transformations enabled seismic shifts in the mass con sumption of information and entertain ment.”
Birnbaum challenges the idea of victimhood and how our reaction to impending catastrophe can often be dictated by the media.
Curator and Miller ICA director Elizabeth Chodos expands on this, saying that, in 1977, Birnbaum realized the hold television had on the American people after reviewing Nielson TV ratings, which reported that the average family watched up to seven hours and 20 minutes of tele vision per day.
By the time artist and Carnegie Mellon University graduate Dara Birnbaum started using her work to examine the phenomenon, records show that almost every household in the U.S. — around 98% — had at least one TV set and that cable television was becoming the new must-have.Nowthe subject of a show at CMU’s Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Birnbaum is described by the university as “one of the first artists to use manipu lated television and media footage and is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of her time.” On view through Dec. 11, Dara Birnbaum: Journey traces the artist’s evolving examinations of media throughout her 45-year career.
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DARA BIRNBAUM: JOURNEY Continues through Dec. 11. Miller Institute for Contemporary Art. 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Free. Open to the public. miller-ica.cmu.edu
Using excerpts from Clara’s diary, as well as captioned still images from the film Song of Love (a 1947 dramatic biopic about the Schumanns starring Katherine Hepburn), Birnbaum dem onstrates how the concept of artistic genius has only been reserved for men, with women being relegated to the role of muse or nurturer even as they produce their own masterly works. The point is driven home by a rotating selection of YouTube clips featuring pianists playing “Arabesque Opus 18.” As explained on the info placard, Birnbaum could only find one clip of someone playing Clara’s piece, “Romanze 1, Opus 11.” But Birnbaum has not limited herself to video work, a point demonstrated by other pieces in the show. Dated 1999, “Quiet Disaster: Fire, Water, Looking Back” uses three enlarged comic strip images showing characters in peril, all cast in shiny Plexiglass. By cropping the images to close-ups removed from their original context, Birnbaum chal lenges the idea of victimhood and how our reaction to impending catastro phe can often be dictated by the media. The themes of “Arabesque” continue in “Computer Assisted Drawing: Proposal for Sony Corporation,” a series of colorful panels fanned out and bolted to the wall. The panels feature images from a com missioned video installation for Sony that Birnbaum abandoned due to what she felt was the company’s “derisive attitude toward a woman artist.”
The show offers a taste of what to expect from Birnbaum, who graduated from CMU in 1967 with an architecture degree before moving on to New York, where she still lives and works. The university’s portrait of her will become complete with the premiere of the show’s upcoming video work, now being pro moted under the working title Journey: In the Shadow of the American Dream The new, original piece should add to an already illuminating view of an artist whose experience of living through a fast-changing media landscape, as well as trying to succeed in a male-dominated industry, more than comes through.
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AROUND 300 YEARS AGO, the fight to end the slave trade found a champion in Benjamin Lay, though you’re unlikely to find him in most history books. Read more about this revolutionary figure in The Fearless Benjamin Lay, the September Pittsburgh City Paper Book Club pick by University of Pittsburgh history professor Marcus Rediker. According to a synopsis from Beacon Press, the nonfiction book details how Lay, a practicing Quaker who suffered from dwarfism, became a fierce abolitionist who demanded “the total, uncon ditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.” For more insight, check out Prophet Against Slavery, a graphic novel Rediker also worked on. Be sure to grab copies of both books at #CPBookClub’s sponsor, Riverstone Books, at shopriverstonebookstore.com, and join the conversation online by using #CPBookClub.
In “Love Poem with Naproxen Sodium,” Jakiela compares her new aches and pains to those of her parents, writing: I limp to the kitchen the way my mother and father did When they were alive and only a little Older than I am now. “You don’t know how it hurts me,” my mother said. She meant arthritis But I think she also meant living.
“You better hope you look this good when you’re my age,” Jakiela remembers her mother telling her as she slapped “her own beautiful polyester ass.” And, in a beautiful transition that sums up the collection’s raw vulnerability, a sixline poem follows with Jakiela’s daughter telling her that she’s not yet “all wrinkly.” When she is, let’s hope Jakiela is still writing because we should all be so lucky to continue being able to grow old along side her. •
Readers of Jakiela’s latest poetry collection, How Do You Like It Now, Gentleman? (BrickHouse Books), will be grateful for her disobedience. With her new release, Jakiela, a professor and director of English and Creative/Professional Writing at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg, continues the personal storytelling she began in her previous memoirs Miss New York Has Everything, The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious, and Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe. Only now, Jakiela has matured from coming-of-age tales to coming-of-middle-age tales.
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This is a collection for those of us who had aunts with Barbie doll torsos in homemade knitted skirts covering their rolls of toilet paper on the back of com modes, to those who grew up watching Daryl Hannah playing “a mermaid in a movie once,” and, yes, to those with Baby Boomer mothers with high expec tations, all things Jakiela shares in her more than 30 poems. Late in the book, however, Jakiela reveals in a poem that her mother even tually did stop lying.
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Even though “Former 90s Supermodel Cindy Crawford Says People Shouldn’t Worry About Aging” (one of the book’s many cleverly titled poems), Jakiela does worry openly throughout the collection, as she switches from flashbacks of herself as a child fearing for her father’s death to witnessing her daughter now weeping for her own. Pages of sustained prose are inter rupted by short, often humorous memories that feel like secrets from a good friend. After a long ode to the late Pittsburgh writer Chuck Kinder, Jakiela eases the tension with a touching fourlined poem about her son joyfully eating a salt-and-vinegar potato chip for the first time.
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ORI JAKIELA’S announcement that she’s turning 51 years old comes in the form of a poem jux taposing her birthday notice with a con fession that she’s defying her mother by doing so. Her mother, she says, didn’t just lie about her age for years, but taught her not to talk about her own.
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The Specials dramatizes the story of Stephane Benhamou, a real-life Parisian who runs a shelter for young people with autism who have been turned away by the health care system. The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic is a Finnish thriller that follows a man who journeys to find his long-distance girlfriend. The film gained some attention for its lead actor, Petri Poikolainen, who, in real life, lost his sight and mobility due to multiple sclerosis.
After the showing on Saturday night, Spitz Cohan will host an event called ReelTalk with local cinematographer KevinTheCannon.festival features a variety of docu mentaries, including Amazing Grace , a look at a musician diagnosed with the polio-like disease Acute Flaccid Myelitis, and imperfect, the story of a theater troupe made up entirely of disabled people putting on the musical Chicago.
In addition to the representation, Spitz Cohan says another important piece of feedback that she’s received over the years comes from audience members who don’t know what it’s like to live with a disability.“WhatIhear from them is, ‘Thank you for opening my eyes,’” she says. “It’s not always that you’re learning in the tradi tional sense of learning because if a film is fiction or narrative, you’re just enjoy ing a film about people because that’s what it is. A film about that’s the goal.”
The 2022 ReelAbilities festival will take place Sept. 7-11 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University. The festival will feature over 25 films, both feature-length and short, with in-person and virtual screenings. Film Pittsburgh hosts an after-party each night after the film screenings for the in-person shows. Spitz Cohan says it was difficult for her to pick a single film she is most excited about, but was able to narrow it down to the opening night feature The Specials, a French film starring Vincent Cassel, and the Saturday night headline film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic.
“It’s different depending on who you are. If you are someone with a disabil ity and you get to see someone like you or someone with your disability on the screen, it’s just amazing,” she says.
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Spitz Cohan says the response to the festival varies depending on each viewer’s own life experience.
THE REELABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL has, for 10 years, worked to bring stories featuring characters with disabilities to Pittsburgh audiences. But before coming to the city, the festival originally started in 2007 in New York. The festival is now international, with events in 18 cities including Pittsburgh, thanks to local nonprofit Film Pittsburgh.
One of Film Pittsburgh’s board members is in a power chair, she adds, and says that one of last year’s films fea tured a lead who was also in a power chair. “She wrote an article for us about repre sentation in film and mentioned this film, where she said it’s like seeing herself on the big screen. It’s so rare.”
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“For that first festival, we worked on putting it together for a good 16, 17, 18 months,” Spitz Cohan tells Pittsburgh City Paper. “There was a lot of legwork — where are the places to do it? Who would our partners be? But here we are 10 years later and it’s so incredibly amazing to get to this point. It’s such a great way to cel ebrate people with disabilities and for people to learn.”
Kathryn Spitz Cohan, the executive director of Film Pittsburgh, dreamed of bringing ReelAbilities to her city since one of her colleagues founded it, but initially believed Pittsburgh was too small.
19PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 pghirishfest.org IrishPittsburghFestival RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW! #PGH IRISH FEST Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark 801 Carrie Furnace Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15218 NEW LOCATION! FEATURED ENTERTAINMENT Gaelic Storm • Screaming Orphans Real Irish Comedy Tour • The Friel Sisters Bastard Bearded Irishmen • RUNA • The Bow Tides The Wild Geese • The Low Kings • County Mayo • Enda Reilly • Dennis Doyle Explore cannabis as a support for what ails you. Become a medical cannabis patient. We provide low-cost certifications and expert assistance, over the phone. www.herbalcarerx.com • 215-554-4044 • HELP@HERBALCARERX.COM $125 New Cannabis Card Certification $75 - Card Recertification $75 - New Certification for Veterans/SSI/Disability
MARKET • IRL Join your fellow punks for a day of shopping when The Rock Room hosts the Pittsburgh Punk Rock Flea Market Organized by the Pittsburgh-based vintage seller Cöbra & Cakes, the event features over 20 punk vendors selling art, leather goods, tattoos, and more. Refresh your wardrobe, buy some cool artwork, or get some new ink at this unique gathering. 3 p.m. 1054 Herron Ave., Polish Hill. $5. Search “Pittsburgh Punk Rock Flea Market” on Facebook FILM • IRL You shall not pass on this opportunity to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the big screen during a festival at Row House Cinema. See the classic J.R.R. Tolkien books come to life through director Peter Jackson’s hit films, all while enjoying themed food and beer specials. Those less than enthused by Jackson’s troubled take on The Hobbit can also see a seven-hour fan edit of the three films that serve as a prequel to LOTR Showtimes vary.
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The International Polka Association started over 60 years ago in Chicago, and was quickly followed by an annual convention that has served as a gathering for polka musicians and fans for generations. The International Polka Association Festival and Convention will take place this year right outside of Pittsburgh at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Cranberry. The event begins with a kick-off party at the Cranberry Elks Lodge with a performance by Western Pennsylvania’s “hottest polka band” Mon Valley Push. 7 p.m. Doors at 6 p.m. Continues through Sun., Sept. 4.
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SAT., SEPT. 3 EVENT • IRL The Thomas Merton Center will celebrate 50 years of fighting for social justice in Pittsburgh with a free outdoor party in Allegheny Commons Park Love and Living: 50 Years of Building Peace Through Justice includes live music by Sunni Leilani and Ananga Martin, the May Day Marching Band, Guaracha, and others. There will also be a fashion show and an open mic, kid-friendly activities, food by Revival Chili and El Rincon Oaxaqueño trucks, and more. 12-6 p.m.
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STAGE • IRL Experience one of the bard’s most magical plays when Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Director Jennifer Tober leads the production of this classic tale, which follows a group of unsuspecting humans who become entangled in a conflict between a fairy king and queen. The play will take place in various Pittsburgh parks, starting with Frick Park and moving on to Highland Park, Westinghouse Park, and Schenley Plaza. 2 p.m. Continues through Sat., Sept. 25. Beechwood Blvd. and Nicholson St., Squirrel Hill. Free. pittsburghshakespeare.com
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COMEDY • IRL Canadian comedian Kurtis Conner will go from YouTube to the stage when he brings his tour to the Byham Theater Conner boasts a massive following online and has translated his comedic chops into his 2016 album Cuppla Jokes. He also puts a humorous spin on current topics as the host of the Very Really Good podcast. See him live along with guests Jacob Sharpe and Dean Hebscher. 7 p.m. 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $69.50-85.50. trustarts.org
FEST • IRL Find your center during the iAm Pittsburgh Festival at Emerald View Park Founded by Pittsburgh musicians and wellness groups, the event offers a full day of entertainment, food, and activities. An event description says that this year, proceeds from the event will be shared “with youth enrichment resources” throughout the city of Pittsburgh. 8 a.m. 499 Bailey Ave., South Side. Free. RSVP required. tinyurl.com/iampittsburgh and chant, and the modern simplicity of color and line.” Learn more during this Artists Forum event. 7-9 p.m. Continues through Oct. 8. 3620 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Free. portpgh.com/exhibit FRI., SEPT. 2
E. North Cedar avenues, South Side. Free. thomasmertoncenter.org
ART • IRL Everyone, regardless of religious beliefs, can appreciate The Call of Beauty at The Port, a Capuchin Franciscan ministry in Lawrenceville. The group exhibition features five artists from the Pittsburgh region and beyond who, according to The Port website, created original works that “draw from the Beaux-Arts masters, Renaissance color and feeling, the shadow and form of the baroque, the inspiration of medieval illumination
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OUTDOORS • IRL Reel in some fun when Venture Outdoors presents another round of Tri-Anglers Lunch Time Fishing. The regular event invites fishing enthusiasts to the North Side for an afternoon of casting into the Allegheny River to catch bass, carp, catfish, and more. No prior fishing experience is needed for this all-ages event. A Fishing Skills Instructor will also be on-site, so participants 16 years or older will not require fishing licenses. 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. 115 Federal St., North Side. Free. Registration required. ventureoutdoors.org SEPT.SAT.,3
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Orchestra, among many other local events, will show off her talent during a special outdoor performance. 5 p.m. 149 Eigth St., Downtown. Free. trustarts.org
FEST • HYBRID Pittsburgh Anglophiles, get ready for afternoon teas, beer tastings, live theater, and more during the Britsburgh Festival. Taking place at various locations throughout the city, the annual event celebrates British culture and history. See Shakespeare performed at Hartwood Acres, try an ale at East End Brewing Company, learn about Britain’s war heroes during a special panel discussion, and more. Continues through Sun., Sept. 11. Multiple locations. Free-$75. britsburgh.com
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