A Pivotal Moment in American Labor

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio are joined by Kim Kelly, author and labor journalist, to talk about her new book, "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor". They get into the history of labor organizing in the United States and how women of color and Black and brown workers have been at the forefront of these movements. They talk about the current labor movement in the U.S. and the multiple strikes and efforts to unionize across industries, including Kim’s personal experience with unions in media companies.

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0:52.4	as you know, it's month of June has just been a month of news and we want to acknowledge
0:59.7	that there has been breaking news related to the January 6th attempted coup at the US
1:05.6	capital this week.
1:07.5	And we were in the room, Futuro Media was in the room with our correspondent, Pablo
1:11.7	Manriquez of Latino Rebels who covered this, covered the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson,
1:18.3	Moore A to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who testified in front of the House Select
1:23.4	Committee investigating January 6th.
1:27.0	And man, she dropped some man, I was like, yo, I'm dropping things here.
1:34.6	First, she said that former president Trump was warned that his supporters were carrying
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