Life for working people. So tell us one story that you have written about concerning low wage workers, the struggle of fastfood workers and what those stories show about the uniqueness of these struggles today. Okay. Well, okay, so i am from the minnesota Labor Association and project of work day minnesota and it was sort of my idea, or whatever. Right . But anyway. We have been covering a lot of oh, working minnesota is the first online labor newspaper in the united states. We think. Founded in 2001. We have been covering labor news in minnesota since then. So just to give people an idea. So we have been covering the organizing of low wage workers and minimum wage fight in minnesota. I will tell you one story. It just happened. Monday, i had the privilege and i do video, i con treb out about half of the video to our squiemt. I had the privilege anyway, monday, and it is, to go to a trailer park in the suburb of minneapolis and interview Alicia Flores who is a building cleaner for the
Analyze our political situation and hopefully leave here with a better outlook for tomorrow. Sfwroo to have such a well of experience in this struggle is not the elders of our movement. Of our party. When i was asked to give a speech honoring our elders, i was fearful of being someone who would come up with some things of the past and give a tone of the passing archaic, unmoving, and gone. Basically i was afraid i would get up hire and give something of a eulogy. Thing is, this had is not a funeral. And the elders who are with us today in this room and with us in spirit and their local place of residency are still very much alive and fighting and wonderful resource of knowledge of things we are that things the party we need to know and be reminded of in order to be the best we can be and looking forward towards the future. Political activist jane baldwin once said children have never been very good at listening to their elders. They have never failed to imitate them. I think this holds
Of a eulogy. Thing is, this had is not a funeral. And the elders who are with us today in this room and with us in spirit and their local place of residency are still very much alive and fighting and wonderful resource of knowledge of things we are that things the party we need to know and be reminded of in order to be the best we can be and looking forward towards the future. Political activist jane baldwin once said children have never been very good at listening to their elders. They have never failed to imitate them. I think this holds true with the case of the party. Sometimes life is busy. The struggles of the day to day can get us down, and we get wrapped up in our own affairs that we can get tunnel vision. We think we can think this is the first time being done, a problem is arising or a battle is being fought. Thing is, the battle and struggle for the end of capitalist exploitations and for a society based on he equality has been a battle the communist party has been waging fo
Politics . When we talk to republicans about this issue, they say the same thing but instead of the koch brothers, its the big scary unions or pick your boogie man. If you look at the numbers, you see that both sides support the same policies we need to fix this problem. This is not a left or right wing issue, but an american issue. Until we treat it like one, we are not going to win. When you are dealing with a problem this huge, you cant nibble around the edges. There all these things we have to fix. Lets take one at a time. Lets pass the public funding here. We found if you put them all together in a piece of legislation, its more powerful together than it is alone. This is all stuff by the way that you can do without amending the constitution to overturn citizens united. Its not to say you shouldnt. Thats to say these two work in tandem because like the majestic voll tron, we are toech more powerful wh powerful when we unite as one. So we have something called the american anticorr