Dig: Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.0 | and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.5 | One that you might like is All Our Trials, Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence by Emma L. Thuma. During the 1970s, grassroots |
| 0:24.4 | activists within and beyond the walls of women's prisons forged a radical politics against |
| 0:30.1 | gender violence and incarceration. Scholar activist Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this |
| 0:36.0 | anti-carceral feminism at the intersections of |
| 0:39.1 | struggles for racial and economic justice, imprisoned and institutionalized people's rights, |
| 0:45.0 | and gender and sexual liberation. Thuma reveals a violent culture of opposition to interpersonal |
| 0:51.2 | and state violence that both transforms our understanding of 1970s social |
| 0:55.8 | movements and illuminates the history of present struggles for transformative justice. |
| 1:02.1 | Find all our trials at haymarketbooks.org, where all paperback books are 20% off every day. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you. paper-back books are 20% off every day. |
| 1:22.3 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. |
| 1:27.0 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:32.6 | The resistance is back, but the Democratic Party is nowhere to be found. |
| 1:40.6 | Bernie Sanders, technically still not a Democrat, is a rare exception, rallying giant crowds of angry Americans to fight the oligarchy. |
| 1:43.5 | The bad news is that the Democratic Party is |
| 1:45.7 | MIA, but that's also the silver lining. The Democratic Party, with all their post-2016 |
| 1:52.8 | Russiagate histrionics, have mostly absented themselves from fighting Trump 2.0. The task of the |
| 2:00.2 | left is now to approach our organizing with a ruthless eye toward effective |
| 2:04.8 | strategy. |
| 2:06.0 | We need power. |
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