Brandon Johnson came to speak to a group of workers in the fall of 2012. The week after the teacher strike, the room was packed. These were workers who had recently graduated from Chicago public schools. And so they set their sights higher and took on another fight that was for us.
Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han on how Chicago's labor left took over City Hall. Brandon Johnson's mayoral victory, the product of a decade-plus of social movement union struggle, is a model for the left everywhere in the United States. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht.
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