Rebecca Davis
@RebeccaDavis
Documentary director & producer of @JoinorDieFilm Previously: Explained on @netflix, @nbcnews, @nydailynews
JOIN OR DIE is now on Netflix 🍿! netflix.com/title/81746809
Now streaming on Netflix: JOIN OR DIE, a film about why you should join a club...and why the fate of America depends on it.
Any successful union started with two co-workers talking. You can get the pay, benefits, and respect at work that you deserve by having those conversations and organizing with your co-workers to put pressure on your boss. United we bargain, divided we beg.
Shortly after her passing, O4P held this tribute to Jane's life and work. Here it is, in its entirety, for all of you who are thinking about her on this first anniversary of her death: youtu.be/D1fZ0w57Jdw?si…
Want a union in your workplace? The next @organizeworkers Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing kicks off this Saturday, July 12th and runs for the next 4 weeks. Sign up here: workerorganizing.org/training/
🔥 🚍🔥“A car-free bus lane can move 8,000 people an hour; meanwhile a busway on a car-free street can move 25,000 people an hour in each direction” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/04/bea…
After a $1.6 billion investment and years of hard work, the Seine River, which was once heavily polluted, is now clean enough for swimming for the first time in over a century. The city has also invested in three public swimming locations. 📍 Paris 🇫🇷
📉Traffic deaths are at the lowest level in recorded history! The first 6 months of '25 were the safest on record, with declines in pedestrian, traditional bike rider, e-bike rider, and driver fatalities. The work of Vision Zero continues because one death is one too many.
👀 “as much as Twitter and even Facebook leaned into their roles in “democratizing” the media, they were never truly building tools for activists, but rather surveillance networks for advertisers”
Progressive activists were once synonymous with places like Twitter. The L.A. demonstrations show how much has changed, John Herrman writes. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
My latest @SloanPublic program updates! sloan.org/storage/app/me… Our wonderful grantees include: @MTC_NYC @RebeccaDavis @JoinOrDieFilm @filmindependent @SFFILM @Twistersmovie @novapbs @nationalbook @ramona_ausubel @edyong209 @xchatty @chrisfitchchris @nevalalee @ahmo23 @WNYC
Catch @organizeworkers "Fundamentals of Workplace organizing"...IRL in NYC! RSVP 1st Session: bit.ly/4dBmfqm RSVP 2nd Session: bit.ly/3SqAZPi

Want to learn more about how states can enable and empower the creation of municipally-owned, mixed-income housing developments? Check out DPN's kit on Social Housing at: DemocracyPolicy.network/SocialHousing
it’s kind of crazy that cars kill 200x as many pedestrians as e-bikes but people just accept that as a given. why don’t cars have a 15mph speed limit?
After numerous conversations this past week, today, we sent @CitiBikeNYC a letter informing them that they needed to take steps to adopt a 15 MPH speed limit for their e-bikes as we announced yesterday. I’m pleased to hear that they are already working to meet this mandate.
How does the union-busting industry work? Union busters are hired in two thirds of organizing campaigns. Make sure you know how the “persuader” industry works. workerorganizing.org/how-does-the-u…
NEW: Our investigation into how Elon Musk built the world's largest supercomputer in Memphis, and chose to power it with dirty methane-burning turbines without pollution controls or air permits -- at the same time as he helped the Trump administration radically cut the EPA.
NEW: Elon Musk’s massive xAI data center is poisoning Memphis. It's burning enough gas to power a small city, with no permits and no pollution controls. Residents tell us they can’t breathe and they’re getting sicker.
We should also do this to cars that drive in NYC
NYC to cap e-bike and scooter speeds at 15 mph, Adams says gothamist.com/news/nyc-to-ca…
Start the long weekend by checking out our looooong list of cities and theaters where you can see #SecretMallApartment. Don't see your town? There are always new theaters being added, so keep an eye on secretmallapartment.com for the latest updates.
Breaking: 74% of workers have voted YES to joining the @SesameWorkersU union
JUST DROPPED: Today we launched a New Bicycle Blueprint for the 21st century. The plan? Make NYC a world-class bicycle city with one million daily bike rides by 2030.
The latest episode of @donie O'Sullivan's new CNN podcast, Persuadable, is out today. @PeteDDavis and I are on talking @JoinOrDieFilm, why you should join a club, and why it's good for America: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/per…
We have a new podcast launching today on irrational belief, mental health, and how we are all capable of believing crazy stuff. It’s called Persuadable. Check it out: link.chtbl.com/9zhzPzEO
HUGE - a victory for generations of activists and a major quality of life improvement for New Yorkers. Never doubt the power of grit, passion, and comically-oversized golden scissors.
EXCLUSIVE: Cyclists and pedestrians now have separate paths on Queensboro Bridge amny.com/nyc-transit/cy…