Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Legendary Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey: One of Her Last Interviews on Strategies for Workers to Win" video.

  1. 33:20 - "...I've always considered myself a soldier¹, y'know one soldier's gonna go down in a fight, and there's a ton of new soldiers being produced every day..." - Jane McAlevey [Oct. 12th, 1964 - July 7th, 2024] Labor champion and author of books like Rules to Win By
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  2. ¹ A soldier in the fight for worker and labor rights, protections, and justice -- and also for all those things for all people. "...Jane taught us that winning is not inevitable, and neither is losing. Jane was obsessed with winning, and teaching others to win. She understood that losing is actually worse than keeping the status quo, that there is no moral value in being on the right side if you lose, that there is no romance in defeat. She taught us that if we do the work necessary to win, we will learn to win more. She took the successful methods that a long tradition of organizers has used for decades, and figured out how to systematically teach them to thousands of people around the world (another thing that Jane taught us: scale)." - Katie Miles Senior trainer at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and organizer for over 15 years.
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