All of the work we do matters in the progressive movement, but we live in something called capitalism. The one thing that the employer class will respond to is when all the workers walk off the job and create a crisis. At the end of the day, the most effective way to challenge unfettered corporate power and the global rich elite is when workers do what they just did all week long in Los Angeles.
Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement.
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Dan's 2019 interview with McAlevey thedigradio.com/podcast/strike-with-jane-mcalevey
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