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Weekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani

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The Challenge Isn't to Get People to Realize That There's an Inequality in the World

Paul and annav: Recognition is important, but it's a means to an end. They say that for organizers specifically, part of our job is to explain what's going on. The taxicab workers want recognition from the general public - which would be useful in pressuring politicians. But they don't want some one in powers saying, like, wyl your situation's bad. Thats i totally get it, you know, like solidarity, od comrade,. You know, like that. It doesn't do anything. And understanding it in terms of lyke cost of who is imposing the most cost right now is probably the ore than asking how many people can no fully feel injustice

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