These workers have a beautiful voice, a powerful voice. The only problem is that nobody wants to hear them.
I have now spent 6 months on the ground in Ohio supporting local ‘Resistance’ groups, and helped a team of volunteer leaders build OPAL (Ohio Progressive Action Leaders), a statewide planning and coordinating body at the center of the ‘Resistance’ network in the state. Who are the “Resistance”? Why are they joining? What are their politics? And how do we invite them to join with progressives, and communities of color to build a left-led political majority in America?
"You would think that activists would just be exhausted and giving up, but not only are they getting louder, they're banding together and making their voices heard at every turn."
The Leap began in 2015 with the launch of The Leap Manifesto: 15 political demands from a coalition of 60 social movement leaders across Canada. It offered an inspiring, big-picture narrative for an energy transition based in principles of justice, human rights, and worker solidarity.
Janine Jackson interviewed Tony Romano about housing cuts for the March 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. [mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Tony Romano Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin170317Romano.mp3″]
A conversation with the Cuban minister of culture reminds us, "The battle of consciousness and ideas must be won."
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