Show: Labor Express for 2-2-2019, Labor Express remembers James Thindwa with the re-airing of interviews on topics from human rights in Zimbabwe, to the Fight for 15 and police brutality.

This is the full 2-2-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.

On January 19th the Chicago labor and social justice movements lost a dedicated organizer, spokesperson and fighter. James Thindwa touched many lives in a host of vital social movements in Chicago and beyond. Whether as an African solidarity activist, the staff director of Citizen Action Coalition of Indiana and Ohio, the lead organizer in Chicago for Metro Seniors in Action, the ED of Chicago Jobs with Justice or his last major organizing role as the Civic Engagement Coordinator at AFT, James was a powerful voice with a unique ability to speak with great moral clarity and vision on a host of topics important to working people and people of color. Over the next month or more I will endeavor to remember James contributions to the Chicago labor movement through his interviews conducted with either Labor Express Radio or Labor Beat TV as well as reminiscences with those closest to him. I start that tonight with two pieces from the archives. The first is audio from a Labor Beat TV video, originally released in December 2014, entitled “The Wage Slave and the Jackboot”, that connects the Fight for 15 with the fight against police brutality. The second is from even further back in the Labor Express radio archive. In the Summer of 2008, James birth nation of Zimbabwe where several of his family continues to reside, was going through one of its most difficult periods with a stolen election, inflation over 100,000 percent, drought, and serious food insecurity. I asked James to explain the situation facing the people of Zimbabwe and once again, James took a complex situation and explained it thoroughly, but also made it concise and accessible.

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