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Worker Organizers & Labor Educators Are Under Attack

Season 2 Episode 209

Labor organizing is critical to any anti-fascist movement, but labor unions and worker education are feeling the impact of Republican attacks and cuts. How are workers and educators responding? In this report, from a conference at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU), Laura speaks with scholars and organizers from around the country to hear how they’re pushing back against fascism.

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