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

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The Power of Honesty

For black people and many others, it's always been a point of functioning like an authoritarian regime in our civil society. So for people to think that they can just use social media and tweet or hold meetings and have 40 people show up who are the same 40 people every time at every meeting is bad thinking. Having really honest upfront conversations about what it takes to build the kind of power required to figure out how to reset the power structure,. We start every campaign that way. And we are the more honest we are with the workers in a campaign, the better it is.

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