Derek Seidman

"The Buffalo campaign can also be seen as one expression of a wider strategy being deployed by movements across the U.S.: attempting to isolate and ostracize ICE by driving a wedge between the agency and the public-facing corporations and billionaires that enable its operations." For @truthout.org.

📢 BIG UPDATE 📢 Organizers with the Evict ICE campaign in Buffalo crashed an award ceremony for developer Carl Montante, whose family firm, Uniland, rents out space to ICE's regional command center. The campaign is demanding Uniland not renew ICE's lease. Learn more in my @truthout.org story ⬇️

Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.

Police removed dozens of residents and arrested Noura Erakat at a September meeting in Palm Beach County, Florida. The county holds $1 billion in Israel Bonds, making it the world's largest investor. Organizers told me they want their tax dollars invested at home, not in fueling violence abroad.

Here is Robert Kraft being lauded by Netanyahu in 2019. Kraft pledges to create a foundation to fight BDS and defend Israel, equating this with combatting antisemitism. This was actually posted on the Patriots website in 2019 - later taken down. web.archive.org/web/20190621...

Robert Kraft and most of his children are major donors to the United Democracy Project, DMFI, and AIPAC, having donated several million dollars combined to the three PACs across dozens of denominations. Kraft recently barred Macklemore from opening for singer Ed Sheeran at a stadium he owns.

My latest for @truthout.org - on the Big Oil execs, directors and shareholders profitting off of the war on Iran.

Trump's war on Iran has claimed thousands of lives and driven up the cost of living for millions of working people. Meanwhile, Big Oil cashes in. bit.ly/3UlZjWC

NEW: Billionaires (and their corporations) do not make for good neighbors. Read about four billionaires who are advancing a pro-corporate, anti-worker agenda across New York State. LINK: littlesis.org/news/ny-bill...

“The sheer scale of this consolidation is extremely alarming." On NextEra's acquisition of Dominion that will create a corporate mega-utility to profit off the data center boom - and what it all means for energy democracy and for ordinairy ratepayers. For @truthout.org.

ICE continues to detain our neighbors with the help of billionaire oligarchs and corporate enablers. Learn who these are: littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

NextEra - already the biggest US electric utility - is acquiring Dominion, creating a truly massive corporate mega-utility. For @truthout.org - I dive into the deal itself, NextEra's sketchy background, the role of data center profiteering, implications for energy democracy, how to stop it + more.

Kushner has been catapulted into billionaire status by the growth of his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, whose key clients are Gulf state sovereign wealth funds overseen by the same regimes with whom Kushner is now involved diplomatically as a U.S. “special envoy for peace.”

NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has been making deeply politicized + conflict-ridden state pension fund investments by splurging hundreds of millions on Israel Bonds - NY taxpayer dollars that go straight to Smotrich's coffers to advance occupation + genocide. Must read from @noahhurowitz.bsky.social.

From its board of director ties to its credit agreements with weapons companies and AI, Citi finances and props up the corporate profiteers behind war, militarism, data centers and AI. Read the full story: littlesis.org/news/citi-is...

Today in news that should both terrify and enrage us:

The U.S. Army is planning to give 50-year leases to the world's biggest private equity firms to build and operate data centers on Army land to service the military's growing use of AI. For @truthout.org.

"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together." My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.

Want to defeat a data center in your area? I interviewed three local organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona on how they built movements against data centers in their communities. Lots of very concrete lessons and advice. For @truthout.org.

I interviewed Bill Hartung about his long history researching militarism and his reflections on the links between research and organizing, past and present. Part of an ongoing @mapthepower.bsky.social series on the history of movement power research.

NEW: We interviewed author Bill Hartung on his long history researching the military-industrial complex and the critical connections between research and organizing against militarism. Part of our ongoing series on the history of movement power research.

If WNY officials give $1.44 billion in public subsidies to a data center that almost nobody wants, people should at least know that the data center's owner will be a huge, Epstein-tied private equity firm led by megabillionaire Marc Rowan. For @truthout.org.

I wrote about the massive private equity firm and megabillionaire CEO behind the proposed STAMP data center complex in Western NY. From Epstein, to Trump attacks on higher ed, to Gaza -- the power behind this data center stretches well beyond WNY For @truthout.org.

Residents in Western New York are opposing a data center backed by an Epstein-tied private equity firm. buff.ly/S7mtZLK

Michael Locker speaks at length about his long movement career, reflecting on the lessons and legacies of power research since the 1960s in this interview with @derekseidman.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/02/powe...

Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.

Wall Street is helping to drive the data center boom. I wrote about how one community in Wisconsin has come together to take on a data center proposed by QTS, owned by Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm. For @truthout.org.

My latest for @truthout.org mapping out the Trump-tied megabillionaire consortium that will own and operate the new US TikTok.

NEW: “If we really want to change things… this means confronting the power structure that controls and benefits most from the current system.” Check out our deep-dive interview with Mike Locker, a key figure in the rise of movement power research since the 1960s.

I did some deep mapping of the megabillionaire consortium that will own and manage the new US TikTok spinoff. It's as bad as you might think. MAGA-aligned tech oligarchs now own all major US social media. For @truthout.org.

Not just Larry Ellison—pro-Trump billionaire Jeff Yass is set to profit from the new U.S. TikTok on two sides. Also in the new ownership consortium: Emirati state-owned firm MGX, and Jared Kushner's circle. By @derekseidman.bsky.social:

New message up on Kenmore Ave in Buffalo.

Read every word of this amazing interview on the organizing and resistance in Minneapolis.

Now's the time to read this @mapthepower.bsky.social guide on how to research the corporate enablers of ICE.

In Buffalo.

Want to know how to research the corporations collaborating with ICE? My recent piece with @truthout.org walks you through six steps to understand where to push to weaken ICE's corporate power:

Check out our latest post: Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE We briefly highlight a few campaigns that are targeting ICE’s corporate collaborators and provide a guide on how you can research these corporations. littlesis.org/news/six-ste...

"Trump wants us to hang our heads and give up, but that’s not happening." New @truthout.org roundtable with immigrant rights and farmworker organizers from AZ, FL + VT who I interviewed in late 2024 after Trump's reelection — taking stock of past year: horrors, heartbreak, resistance, resolve.

Avelo Airlines’ decision to drop its ICE contract shows that immigration enforcement isn’t inevitable; when communities organize, target corporate complicity, and refuse to normalize deportations, even powerful agencies can be forced to back down.

"The Trump administration’s barefaced imperial grab for Venezuela’s oil... is looking to corporate allies like Chevron, which could stand to benefit handsomely from his administration’s action — though this is far from guaranteed." For @truthout.org.

Big Oil companies are governed by boards of directors from major corporations. We mapped out some of the current and recent past corporate ties of board directors at Chevron.

Fracking companies are salivating over the data center boom. "The demand for power and for AI is like nothing I’ve ever seen.” --Halliburton CEO. I wrote about it for @truthout.org.

Thank you @truthout.org for including us in this roundtable conversation about the need for Public Power! truthout.org/articles/as-...

"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt... We’re reaching a crisis point." New @truthout.org roundtable w/ organizers from Tucson + DC on the rising left movement for public ownership of utilities.

I went on FAIR's Counterspin show (one of my favs!) to talk about powermapping Starbucks execs and board directors -- including the close ties between SBUX and Walmart -- amid the ongoing @sbworkersunited.org strike. Listen here: fair.org/home/derek-s...

Do you know who your local billionaires are? We made this research guide to help you get started. littlesis.org/reports/ever...

Here's a map I made of the corporate (and some other) ties and interlocks on Starbucks' board of directors. I wrote about it all here: truthout.org/articles/why...

"Starbucks’s leadership has a close alliance with another anti-union retail powerhouse: Walmart." truthout.org/articles/why...