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The Dig: How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey

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How to Build Power in the Wrong Movement

I have an incredible belief in the capacity of every single person to act, but it's like you wouldn't hire someone who's never held a hammer to build your house the first time. So building the kind of power required to get to 90% or north of 95% isn't something that you're going to hand to someone who'sNever tried to do it. But I think I say in every book and I say almost every day more than anything. Everyone can organize. It's just we can't assume that they can do it without someone helping them understand the basic steps and the basic methods. That's what a craft by definition isSomething that you get better at and better at and

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