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We are honored to be joined by Eliza Schultz, a working class Teamster in Chicago, Illinois. Eliza is on the board of directors for the Teamsters LGBTQ+ Caucus, and she shares with us the struggles of LGBTQ+ ranks and file workers, and what it looks like to fight for LGBTQ+ Liberation from within a labor union.

You can find the Teamsters LGBTQ+ Caucus online at their website and Facebook page.

Also, get involved with Teamsters for a Democratic Union.

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Christina Kittle is a working class leader in the Jacksonville Community Action Committee and organizer in the Black Belt South, fighting for Black Liberation and against the oppression of women and the LGBT+ community. She is one of the Jax 5, a group of protesters that were beaten and arrested by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office on April 7th, 2017 during a peaceful protest against a missile attack on Syria. Kit breaks down the events of this police brutality, the fight for community control of the police, and an analysis on the systematic oppression of women and LGBT+ folks under capitalism.

You can find the video version of this interview on our YouTube channel.

If you live in Jacksonville and have the fire to fight, get involved with the work of the Jacksonville Community Action Committee.  

Read about about the Jax 5 police brutality on Fight Back! News.

Check out National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression to see if there is a chapter in your area and join the fight for community control of the police.

Also, join the fight to win our world by joining the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

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Joe Burns is the Director of Bargaining for the Association of Flight Attendants union, a veteran of the labor movement, and author of 3 books, including his latest: Class Struggle Unionism.  

In this interview, Joe breaks down the current state of the labor movement, including the struggle for power between business unionists, labor liberals, and class struggle unionists. He covers the historical context leading up to now, and describes the methods and strategies that a militant working class can and should use to win labor struggles.  

If you enjoyed this discussion, definitely check out Joe’s Book: Class Struggle Unionism. 

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Richard Blake is a UPS driver in Jacksonville FL, a member Teamsters Local #512, and a longtime class struggle unionist. He visited us in the windy city to discuss the contract fight the rank-and-file is waging against UPS, pushing back against sellout union officials, and building worker power at the local and national level.

If you are a Teamster, get plugged into Teamsters for a Democratic Union to join the militant rank and file in your union.

If you are not a Teamster or a union member, we encourage you to get a union job and join the fight for a better world.

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*** Correction: Richard stated that the Taft Hartley Act was packed in the 50s, but it was passed in 1947.

Today we are joined by Carlos Montes, an iconic leader of the Chicano National Movement. Carlos was the founder, spokesperson and minister of information for the Brown Berets. He was also a key leader of the 1968 Los Angeles High School walkouts, the Chicano Moratorium against the Viet Nam War, the mega-marches from 2006 and continues today as a leader of Centro Community Service Organization in Los Angeles.

Centro CSO held their 52nd Chicano Moratorium just last month; you can read it about it on Fight Back! News.

You can find Carlos online on his personal website, and you can find Centro CSO on all their sites:

We are also honored to have the episode closed out by Angel Naranjo, a high school senior and leader of Chicago’s Little Village Lawndale High School Fight Back! organization. Angel and their fellow students across Chicago walked out of class last year when Chicago Public Schools tried to force students into unsafe schools amidst a pandemic.

You can connect with Chicago’s Little Village Lawndale High School Fight Back! organization on their Instagram, and read more about the walkout they organized on Fight Back! News.

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Happy Labor Day from Fight Back! Radio.

Today we're joined by Greg Kelley, president of SEIU Healthcare Illinois Indiana Missouri & Kansas, a union which represents 90,000 healthcare, child care, nursing home and home healthcare workers across the four states. Greg unpacks the challenges involved with organizing in the healthcare industry, the power of organized labor and what workers can accomplish by withholding theirs, and building up working class communities through community control of the police, political organizing, and other efforts.

Checkout the SEIU local's website, as well as their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also follow Greg Kelley himself on Twitter.

If you're interested in learning more about the the creation of Labor Day and May Day, we recommend listening to our interview with Larry Spivack where we take a deep dive into this history.

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We are joined by Chrisley Carpio, a Tampa-based activist and national leader of Students for a Democratic Society to discuss the fights students are taking up both on and off campus. We dive into some of the history of SDS, as well as their current struggles against the Roe V. Wade decision, racial oppression, and labor exploitation.

Students who want to get politically active can reach out to SDS through their website, Facebook, and Twitter.

Any listeners who are interested in diving deeper into theory, check out the Red Theory series on Fight Back! News. You can listen to audio versions of the articles on the Tankie Talk YouTube channel, as well as follow along the video studies on FRSO's YouTube channel.

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Fight Back! Radio shares a solidarity statement with those attacked by the FBI in St Louis, MO and St Petersburg, FL.

Read more about the raids on Fight Back! News.

We are joined today by Tracy Molm, a Minnesota based activist and member of the Climate Justice Committee, to discuss climate justice from a Marxist Lensist perspective. Tracy shares with us some of the current environmental crisis that we are facing today, and breaks down a strategy to combat climate change that involves making connections, building movements, and getting people into the streets.

Read the NAARPR's statement to stop FBI oppression.

Check out the Climate Justice Committee online to learn more about their work and get involved in their movements.

Sign the petition calling for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers perform the federal Environmental Impact Survey on Line 3 that they were supposed to perform but never did.

Read about the protest organized by the Climate Justice Committee as a response to the Kalamazoo oil spill.

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Listen to the full episode, "Attacks on Labor and How Unions Fight Back with Carl Rosen", wherever you're streaming this podcast.

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