In this installment of Resistance Needs a Plan, I focus on something bigger than protests, moments, or viral calls to action. I talk about organized labor as an institution, one of the few remaining structures in American life that is still shaped and controlled by regular people instead of politicians and donors.

This piece is about collective power, why showing up locally matters, and how protecting labor is also a way of protecting democracy itself.

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