{"id":12259,"date":"2012-09-04T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2019-03-27T20:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:06:35","slug":"help-workers-connect-the-dots-to-this-larger-system-of-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/09\/04\/help-workers-connect-the-dots-to-this-larger-system-of-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truthout<\/em> has published the interview of Jane McAlevey by Laura Flanders titled <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/11260-help-workers-connect-the-dots-to-this-larger-system-of-oppression-dressed-up-as-free-enterprise-and-freedom\" title=\"Truthout article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJane McAlevey has a book coming out this fall from Verso called &#8220;Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.&#8221; I started by asking her to introduce herself, and then to talk about hell-raising in Wisconsin and the lessons the labor movement might draw from that experience, with relevance to the elections that loom just ahead of us.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nJM: I think the top lesson in our view is that there is not enough internal radical, political education taking place inside of America&#8217;s unions. If there was one thing we had to do differently, it&#8217;s actually trust that our rank and file can handle a lot of the information and that the rank and file will know what to do with real facts, real information, and what&#8217;s really happening.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYOCyxcC.html?p=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above video plays for me if I use Google Chrome, but I cannot get it to work for me in Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Jane McAlevey speaks rapidly, so you might also want to consult the transcript published in the article.<\/p>\n<p>This is interview provides insights as to what we should be doing in our efforts to get Elizabeth Warren elected as Senator from Massachusetts.  I am still working on learning how to do what Jane suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truthout has published the interview of Jane McAlevey by Laura Flanders titled Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression. Jane McAlevey has a book coming out this fall from Verso called &#8220;Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.&#8221; I started by asking her to introduce herself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27134,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions\/27134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}