On Monday's episode, hosted by Desiree Hellegers:
Laurie Mercier interviews Paul Ortiz, professor of labor history at Cornell University and author of An African American and Latinx History of the US. They talk about Latinx activism since the Trump election and how anti-ICE protests and immigrant and labor rights demonstrations reflect a longer history of Latinx organizing and internationalism.
Desiree Hellegers brings audio from a 2017 interview with climate justice activist and labor organizer Tim Norgren. Norgren talks about walking off an LNG job site to join protesters outside, and how he came to climate justice organizing through Occupy Wall Street. The interview is part of The Thin Green Line is People’s History Project, an archive that houses thousands of documents, including public testimony, environmental impact statements, news reports, policy analysis, and oral histories.
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