We Are The Union The Book Not The Band with Eric Blanc

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Labor Studies Professor and author of We Are The Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big joins us to talk about labor organizing! ERIC BLANC EWOC: www.workerorganizing.org Become a salt: bit.ly/saltnow Support federal workers: go.savepublicservices.com My new book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/paper (Listeners can get a 50% discount by putting in the code UNION50) My substack: www.laborpolitics.com MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,
0:16.0	and then wants us to sing God bless America.
0:19.0	No, no, no, not God bless America. God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is called and she is supreme.
0:45.4	Hello, welcome to Poddam America.
0:48.3	I'm Jake.
0:49.2	Marie's in my lap.
0:50.5	Anders J. Lee is here.
0:52.2	Andrew J. Lee here.
0:54.3	Welcome to the show. Hi, guys. We've. Lee is here. Andrew J. Lee here. Welcome to the show.
0:56.8	Hi, guys. We've got a great episode about labor today.
0:59.7	We're going to get back to our roots, back to basics here.
1:02.7	We're going to talk about organizing your freaking workplace.
1:05.9	But first, very important news coming out of the Dogeification of America.
1:12.9	I don't know if you saw this, Anders.
1:15.0	The Doge stuff is happening.
1:17.6	They're waging war against government DEI.
1:23.3	And why do you tell us what happened, Anders?
1:26.1	Yeah, I just saw this article before we started recording in Huffington Post.
1:30.9	They are de-wokifying the military.
1:34.0	They're taking certain terms out of the archives, the military archives.
1:41.2	There's just kind of whitewashing, I guess, the information the military has.
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