Mark Medina
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You give it up for another generation. Then when workers, when people like myself growing up and looking at images of the United Farm Workers, there are similar, I presume there are similar people in the United States growing up who look that way up to the United Auto Workers, who look that way up to the Teachers Union.
You give it up for another generation. Then when workers, when people like myself growing up and looking at images of the United Farm Workers, there are similar, I presume there are similar people in the United States growing up who look that way up to the United Auto Workers, who look that way up to the Teachers Union.
You give it up for another generation. Then when workers, when people like myself growing up and looking at images of the United Farm Workers, there are similar, I presume there are similar people in the United States growing up who look that way up to the United Auto Workers, who look that way up to the Teachers Union.
What happens to those children, to those kids, those young people who want to be the next leadership, the next era of the labor movement? They will not look at us as having the moral high ground. We give that up. We give our role in history, our moral role in history, to fight for the working class when we do things like this.
What happens to those children, to those kids, those young people who want to be the next leadership, the next era of the labor movement? They will not look at us as having the moral high ground. We give that up. We give our role in history, our moral role in history, to fight for the working class when we do things like this.
What happens to those children, to those kids, those young people who want to be the next leadership, the next era of the labor movement? They will not look at us as having the moral high ground. We give that up. We give our role in history, our moral role in history, to fight for the working class when we do things like this.
No, it does not. I take no pleasure in saying this. You know, I take no pleasure in saying this, but it's an unfortunate reality. And hopefully the turnaround can come from anywhere. It can come from some unexpected places. And I hope that there is one.
No, it does not. I take no pleasure in saying this. You know, I take no pleasure in saying this, but it's an unfortunate reality. And hopefully the turnaround can come from anywhere. It can come from some unexpected places. And I hope that there is one.
No, it does not. I take no pleasure in saying this. You know, I take no pleasure in saying this, but it's an unfortunate reality. And hopefully the turnaround can come from anywhere. It can come from some unexpected places. And I hope that there is one.
And things like solidarity for Lelo, I hope it'd be a small link in the chain that moves the pendulum right back into the direction of an ethical and moral superiority that comes with fighting for working class folks.
And things like solidarity for Lelo, I hope it'd be a small link in the chain that moves the pendulum right back into the direction of an ethical and moral superiority that comes with fighting for working class folks.
And things like solidarity for Lelo, I hope it'd be a small link in the chain that moves the pendulum right back into the direction of an ethical and moral superiority that comes with fighting for working class folks.
Sure, sounds good. So, like I mentioned earlier, in the immediate aftermath of Lilo's kidnapping by ICE, workers in the region began organizing. And unions came together in support of LELO and helped rally in front of the detention center in Tacoma. Now, what we're trying to do is trying to spread the word further.
Sure, sounds good. So, like I mentioned earlier, in the immediate aftermath of Lilo's kidnapping by ICE, workers in the region began organizing. And unions came together in support of LELO and helped rally in front of the detention center in Tacoma. Now, what we're trying to do is trying to spread the word further.
Sure, sounds good. So, like I mentioned earlier, in the immediate aftermath of Lilo's kidnapping by ICE, workers in the region began organizing. And unions came together in support of LELO and helped rally in front of the detention center in Tacoma. Now, what we're trying to do is trying to spread the word further.
There are other communities, particularly here on the West Coast, that can stand in solidarity, that should stand in solidarity. And when we heard this go down, activists within the CIU asked themselves, we can't stand idly by while a leader in our movement is kidnapped by the state. We need to take action. And so we did.
There are other communities, particularly here on the West Coast, that can stand in solidarity, that should stand in solidarity. And when we heard this go down, activists within the CIU asked themselves, we can't stand idly by while a leader in our movement is kidnapped by the state. We need to take action. And so we did.
There are other communities, particularly here on the West Coast, that can stand in solidarity, that should stand in solidarity. And when we heard this go down, activists within the CIU asked themselves, we can't stand idly by while a leader in our movement is kidnapped by the state. We need to take action. And so we did.