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What Is To Be Done?

A Conversation about Organizing and Strategies to Win
With
Stanley Aronowitz, studies labor, and social movements, and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He’s authored or edited twenty-five books including: "Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future", "How Class Works", "The Jobless Future", and;"False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness".
and
Professor Manny Ness’ research focuses on working class
protest and revolutionary movements. His numerous books
include "Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market", "The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest". He is editor of the "Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration", and his newest book is "Guest Workers And Resistance To U.S. Corporate Despotism".

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One of The 100 Most Influential People in the World

With
Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance


TIME Magazine named Ai-jen Poo one of The 100 Most
Influential People in the World - a creative organizer
who knows how to create social change from the
bottom up. Ai-jen Poo, has been growing into that role
since she was a student outraged by the stories of
domestic workers, often immigrants or women of
color, who labored long hours for low pay as nannies,
maids, housekeepers, cooks, elder caregivers, and
other household workers – women who had been
treated as unskilled and expendable, yet who were
responsible for raising children, caring for the ill and
elderly and facilitating the daily lives of millions of
families.


Ai-jen Poo's gift for creating worker-led groups and empathetic tactics has made the National Domestic Workers Alliance into an umbrella organization with 35 satellites around the country, with more than 10,000 members. Ai-jen Poo has done this by creating a new paradigm for how we value work and with that how workers can built their power collectively. Ai-jen goes beyond organizing to transforming. .
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Getting Back to Basics – Jobs for All
With
Trudy Goldberg, Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition


While the issue uppermost in the voters’ minds this election year is jobs, jobs and good jobs, you’d hardly know it by following the campaigns or even the protests for the 99%. But the National Jobs for All Coalition is always on target about the tragedy of unemployment, underemployment and deteriorating working conditions and has a program to move forward on this crucial issue. Trudy Goldberg spoke to us leading a contingent of the National Jobs for All Coalition from the NYC Union Square protest on
May Day 2012

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Thousands Gather For May Day, Immigrant Rights Rally In Arizona
with
Isabel Garcia, Director of the Pima County Legal Defenders and Co-chair of the Coalition de Derechos Humanos, Arizona
and
Leilani Clark, Youth Organizer, Coalition de Derechos Humanos

Immigrants rights organizers report on the tens of thousands of immigrant rights demonstrators who rallied on May Day in Arizona to protest the tough new immigration law 1070, and state and federal law enforcement harassment of Arizona’s immigrants, as they demand that stalled legislative reforms in Congress proceed.

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