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We Rise Fighting: Strikes, Struggle, and Strategy

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Tia asks if taking over the capital would create Latino male supremacy or eliminate all oppression altogether.
Hosts Tia and Brian analyze current mass protests against ICE and other social movements, questioning where this energy is going and arguing that protests need to evolve into organized efforts to eliminate oppression altogether. They draw lessons from labor history and strikes to propose that workers should seize control of institutions and create a society without capitalists or oppressors.

As heard by us

A labor-history piece on turning street energy into organized power.

This Labor History Today segment follows a We Rise Fighting Labor episode with Tia and Brian as they move from mass protests in LA to immigrant-rights rallies and anti-ICE and No Kings demonstrations.

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Street protest meets labor strategy, not slogan.

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