"It’s possible to build new types of media outlets... we don’t have to just have this sort of fatalism about whether we can change the press. We can change the press, one reader at a time."
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'Are we as a movement going to get serious about organizing around that? We should be focusing on the growing trend of newsletters & helping coordinate foundations & help giving worker-owned power to news outlets — to build model news outlets that can implement good policies.'
"I think so much of the intellectual left gets into these very, kind of top-down conversations about “We have to organize in this industry or that industry.” No. We’ve got to show solidarity with what workers are doing anyway. And I think that’s the approach we’ve got to take."
"And I would say the fight is in communities of colour — particularly, in my opinion, in immigrant communities. We’ve tried to focus heavily on immigrant meatpackers. Over 20,000 meatpackers — largely immigrants — have gotten #COVID19. Scores of them have died."
