Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. So this is just a quick little

micro episode fundamentally to help a friend in need. Before I get to that though,

I do want to mention because I haven't had the opportunity to do a full episode

on this and I plan my episodes weeks if not a month out. So who knows when I'll

get around to actually covering this more systematically but we are in the

middle of a pretty unprecedented strike wave here in the United States. The

Kellogg's workers for example recently went on strike here in Omaha and that

strike caught on to plants around the country. You have the John Deere strike.

You have a McDonald's workers striking I think in Wisconsin under the fight for

15 flag and many more. There is this shift in the wake of the pandemic and the

economic chaos and the supply chain issues toward leveraging power more in the

direction of labor and labor overall seems to be rising to the challenge. These

strikes are a really beautiful thing to see and I just wanted to send my

solidarity and love to everybody out there. If you're on the left, if you're

involved in an organization going out to the picket line, showing support,

anything like that is helpful boosting the message donating to some of these

strike funds helps. They're all over online. My friend Mel is doing great work

on this as well. She's on Twitter. She's been a guest in the show many times and

she often is talking about the Kellogg strikes and plugging some of those

strike funds etc. So definitely help out in whatever way you can't even if

that's just getting the message out and we want to see more of this. We've lived

in you know 40 years of just brutal right wing neoliberal corporate domination

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