Protesters inside the Grand Cafe, claiming the owner unfairly fired 4 workers for union organizing.

More Organizing, Less Activating

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 21, 2016

Jane McAlevey, labor and environmental organizer, post doctoral fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), argues that progressives need more of the hard work of organizing mass movements to be effective.

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