Dean Baker, Dr. William P. Jones
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book "The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement."
People are hungry for truth telling, but truth telling has a smaller audience because it’s not within people’s realm of comfort or familiarity. That’s how the Right came to dominate, by continuously telling their story. They didn't water it down.
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.
Organizing lessons I learned from movements for worker organizing, immigrant rights, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, Palestine solidarity, and abortion rights.
To build formations capable of advancing both political and economic democracy, we need to grapple with the enduring footprint of anti-political thought in our organizations.
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