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Mark Medina

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

or need help with education and training, or just want to make connections and inroads with workers elsewhere, contact the Coalition of Independent Unions and see how we can build these bonds together, because I think that we will problem-solve how to defeat this regime one way or another, but I think that we, particularly in the independent union space, provide a unique possibility for how this can happen, because since we are not tied to larger established contracts, we're not tied to

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You know, jurisdictional disputes were not tied to a lot of the legacies of some of the larger unions. God bless them. We can create and fashion a labor movement that doesn't have to live by those rules.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You know, jurisdictional disputes were not tied to a lot of the legacies of some of the larger unions. God bless them. We can create and fashion a labor movement that doesn't have to live by those rules.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You know, jurisdictional disputes were not tied to a lot of the legacies of some of the larger unions. God bless them. We can create and fashion a labor movement that doesn't have to live by those rules.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You know, if you imagine the idea of what it would look like to refound the CIO in the 1930s, if you could imagine the worst aspects of the labor movement and excising them and what is the best aspect of the labor movement that you would want to see, we can create that together today.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You know, if you imagine the idea of what it would look like to refound the CIO in the 1930s, if you could imagine the worst aspects of the labor movement and excising them and what is the best aspect of the labor movement that you would want to see, we can create that together today.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You know, if you imagine the idea of what it would look like to refound the CIO in the 1930s, if you could imagine the worst aspects of the labor movement and excising them and what is the best aspect of the labor movement that you would want to see, we can create that together today.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And today, it takes the form of standing up in solidarity with LELO and Farm Workers Union of Northern Washington, not because we get anything from it, not because it's easy, but precisely because it is difficult and precisely because it is a moral compulsion on us to take action today for it. We don't have to wait for anyone to tell us what to do.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And today, it takes the form of standing up in solidarity with LELO and Farm Workers Union of Northern Washington, not because we get anything from it, not because it's easy, but precisely because it is difficult and precisely because it is a moral compulsion on us to take action today for it. We don't have to wait for anyone to tell us what to do.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And today, it takes the form of standing up in solidarity with LELO and Farm Workers Union of Northern Washington, not because we get anything from it, not because it's easy, but precisely because it is difficult and precisely because it is a moral compulsion on us to take action today for it. We don't have to wait for anyone to tell us what to do.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

As part of an independent labor movement, we get to decide our future and our fate, and we get to decide our struggles.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

As part of an independent labor movement, we get to decide our future and our fate, and we get to decide our struggles.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

As part of an independent labor movement, we get to decide our future and our fate, and we get to decide our struggles.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Absolutely. Fascism wants you to believe in a nihilistic perspective of the world. They want you to believe in which it is hopeless to fight back. They want you to believe just doom scroll forever and don't take any action and focus on yourselves and navel gaze indefinitely. No, no, no.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Absolutely. Fascism wants you to believe in a nihilistic perspective of the world. They want you to believe in which it is hopeless to fight back. They want you to believe just doom scroll forever and don't take any action and focus on yourselves and navel gaze indefinitely. No, no, no.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Absolutely. Fascism wants you to believe in a nihilistic perspective of the world. They want you to believe in which it is hopeless to fight back. They want you to believe just doom scroll forever and don't take any action and focus on yourselves and navel gaze indefinitely. No, no, no.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

The way that you find out the kind of person that you are and the way that you build the kind of future that you want for yourselves, for your families, for your communities, for the people that you don't even know and never will meet, but you want a good life for them. The way that you do that is you take action. Now you start organizing, you do what you can, you build what you can.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

The way that you find out the kind of person that you are and the way that you build the kind of future that you want for yourselves, for your families, for your communities, for the people that you don't even know and never will meet, but you want a good life for them. The way that you do that is you take action. Now you start organizing, you do what you can, you build what you can.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

The way that you find out the kind of person that you are and the way that you build the kind of future that you want for yourselves, for your families, for your communities, for the people that you don't even know and never will meet, but you want a good life for them. The way that you do that is you take action. Now you start organizing, you do what you can, you build what you can.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And me and other people who talk like this, who are as optimistic and as hopeful and as fight-ready, we don't believe this out of nowhere. We believe this because we truly do see that the better world is possible if we fight.