2023 Labor Movements And An Immigrant Capitol Sergeant’s Perspective On the January 6th Insurrection

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On this episode of Our Body Politic, Karen Attiah, guest host and Columnist for the Washington Post, speaks with labor journalist Kim Kelly about the past year in labor movements in the U.S. Then Karen talks with journalist, activist and documentarian Rokhaya Diallo about the anti-racist protests in France. We round out the show with part 2 of Farai Chideya’s conversation with Former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant, Aquilino Gonell about his new book, “American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy.

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0:50.6	on your mind. Thanks for listening. This is Our Body Politic. I'm Karen Atia,
0:58.4	columnist for The Washington Post, sitting in for Farai Chidea. On this show, we're looking at the
1:04.3	power of movements, and we're starting with the recent labor strikes in the United States.
1:09.8	This year, we've seen unprecedented labor
1:12.6	victories across all different kinds of industries. We definitely had a hot strike summer.
1:18.9	The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild went on historic months-long double strike.
1:25.1	Then hotel workers went on strike. And as hot strike summer became hot strike
1:30.3	fall, United Auto Workers went on strike. Health care workers went on strike. The list goes on and on.
1:37.5	Now, we're going to dive deeper into some of these winds and also connect them to the history of
1:42.2	labor organizing in the United States.
1:44.9	Joining me as labor journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell,
1:49.0	The Untold History of American Labor.
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