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the real benefits kick in when you hear the whole show, which is greater than the sum of

its parts.

Every day, you'll hear a call to boycott this company or that.

It's an understandable instinct, but instinct is not strategy, and what we need is strategy. So, we'll hear a call to boycott this company or that. It's an understandable instinct, but instinct is not strategy. And what we need

is strategy. So today, we're going to look at the structures of strategies that work, the structure

of how the labor movement got to the sorry state it's in, and some suggested changes to take

us into the future. Now, although the show is

best enjoyed with an attention span, we understand there's a chance you won't make it to the end.

So we like to give you our conclusion up front, leaving the mystery of how we got there.

All right, so we're going to be thoughtful about how we use our energy.

We're going to join organized movements so that our power is amplified.

We're going to have a deep understanding of the structures we're up against and understand and work to build the better structures that we need for labor to fight back.

Now, we begin today with this article from Jacobin, your individual boycotts aren't helping. Emphasis on individual. And it explains that boycotts really only work if people are

doing it together. And posting a meme and hoping enough people jump on board is not the way to do that.

So it says, quote, without strong membership organizations in our daily lives and with social

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