In Part 2 Ben Speight talks about the practices of “combing our forces” in the fight for worker justice. These current times require ever more coalition building and organized resistance to the status quo. Ben uses examples from his own decades of union organizing to show that “the people united will never be divided!”
Theme music by Aviva and the Flying Penguins and Lance Eric Haugan.
Outro music on both Parts 1 and 2 by Paul Myhre, “Prayer for New Zealand” (2019) on reverbnation.com
Resources:
- Arnold, Rick, Bev Burke, et al. Educating for a Change. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1991.
- Brown, Adrienne Maree. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. AK Press, 2017.Brown, Michael Jacoby. Building Powerful Community Organizations. Arlington, MA: Long Haul Press, 2006.
- Burke, Bev. Education for Changing Unions. Toronto: Between the lines, 2002.
- Crass, Chris. Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy. PM Press, 2013.
- Dixon, Chris. Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
- Epstein, Barbara Epstein. Political Protest & Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
- Interfaith Worker Justice: http://www.iwj.org/
- Lopez, Tina and Barb Thomas. Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006.
- Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
- Strength in Union article: https://teamster.org/magazine/2019/spring/strength-union
