I graduated high school in 2006. I joined the Carpenters Union Local 40 Boston, Massachusetts. Sadly, a few years later, there was a global recession. But a few years after that, inside of our TV screens, inside of our newspapers, and most importantly, inside of our streets. The Occupy Wall Street Movement exploded into the scene.
I quickly hopped on a bus and went to Dewey's Square in Boston, Massachusetts and I helped launch the Occupied Boston Chapter and I took multiple trips between Boston and Zuccotti Park in New York City to learn how to become a better union organizer, and most importantly, a better community organizer. By December 2012, the Massachusetts AFL CIO reached out to me and asked if I would to speak at one of their events called Protect Jobs and Services. Me being me, I said, sure, why not?
Little did I know, this was actually on stage at the historic Faneuil Hall in front of thousands of people and in front of the news media. I was ecstatic, privileged, and honored that the Massachusetts AFL CIO would reach out to me. Soon afterwards, I got back with the Carpenters Union and I quickly became a delegate for Local 40, and I was interviewed for the Local 40 business requisition. I was one out of seven people to make it to the final interview.
In April of 2015 Bernie Sanders announced his presidency, and two days later I created Labor for Bernie. This was a bottom-up grassroots movement to get members to pass motions at their union meetings to encourage their national union body to not do top-down endorsements, but to have the rank and file decide who their union should endorse for the United States presidency. We quickly got the National Nurses Union, NNU, and CWA, the Communication Workers of America on board. And it kept growing. In 2015 and 2016, I spent two years working at Shaw's supermarket in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where I and my coworkers got nearly 50% of workers to sign union cards.
Sadly, the boss found out and shuffled the workers around but what we gained is knowledge. Knowledge that the collective power of the workers can and will eventually beat the bosses attacks. In 2016, I became a community director for the Vote No on Two Ballot Question. I was located out of Barnsville County, Massachusetts. This was about the Massachusetts teachers fighting about fighting against and back of the charter school expansion. Charter schools would get a blank check and a public school system said no. We won. Charter schools got restricted inside Massachusetts. Victory.
Soon afterwards, I moved down to Florida 2021. I joined USPS and I proudly became a member of the NALC. In August of 2024, I went to my first NALC Convention. October 2024, I organized A Fair Contract Now Rally outside of my post office on Progress Ave in East Naples, where nearly one third of members attended.
In January 2025, I created a podcast, The Next Generation Carriers. If you don't know it, please look into it. We have had NALC President Brian Renfroe on three times and we've had NALC Vice President James Henry on three times as well along with business agents Eddie Davidson, Mike Caref, and we have also had executive council members on like Manny Peralta, Jim Yates, and Mack Julion.
In June 2025, I organized a rally outside of the office of Senator Rick Scott to fight back against their attacks on the federal workforce benefits we signed onto a petition and we delivered it to his office. Sadly, he wasn't there. So we mailed it to his office in DC and we rallied out on the street corners. Many people stopped, cheered, and thanked us for taking a stand. These are just some of the details of my life. I'll never stop fighting for the working class. Because the ruling class will never stop fighting us.