From New York, this is Democracy Now.

You know, one soldier is going to go down in the fight, and there's a ton more soldiers

being produced every day in all of these campaigns and all of the

training programs and I do think that they're going to win ultimately because people have had

it with capitalism in 2024.

Today in this Labor Day special,

we remember the longtime labor organizer

and scholar Jane Mcaleavy. She died in July at the age of 59.

She dedicated her life to empowering rank and file workers training tens of thousands around the world to effectively

strengthen their unions. She gave one of her last interviews to Democracy Now.

Then United Auto Workers President Sean Fain's fiery address to the Democratic National Convention.

So for us in the labor movement, it's real simple.

Kamala Harris is one of us.

She's a fighter for the working class. And Donald Trump is a scam. But first we remember Mother Jones. All that and more coming out. This is

This is Democracy Now. Democracy Now.

Democracy Now. The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

Today is Labor Day.

We begin today's holiday special with highlights from a production of Howard's In's Voices of

A People's History of the United States, where Howard's Inn introduced dramatic readings from history.

We'll hear Alfred Woodard read the words of Labor Activist Mother Jones,

and Howard's son Jeffson read the words of an IWW poet and organizer Arturo Giovanniiti.

But first, the late great historian Howard Zen.

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