There is no other militant union organizer and leader who's been elected to an office of this scale in the United States. "We got to acquire a more complex vocabulary," he says. I invite you to get in touch with your hearts and your minds, be able to understand what you're feeling because everything is not the same thing"
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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