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EPISODE · Oct 13, 2023 · 32 MIN

Why The Work Class? Pt 4 Sara Nelson "Solidarity is a Force Stronger than Gravity"

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Sara Nelson took office as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO on June 1, 2014, and she is currently serving her second four-year term.Sara became a United Airlines Flight Attendant in 1996 and has been a union activist since nearly the beginning of her career, including serving as strike chair and leading communications for nearly 10 years at AFA’s United chapter. In the summer of 2019, she addressed DSA’s largest ever Convention, which occurred during a surprising wave of strikes by teachers, hotel workers, and others. Much of the convention revolved around the power of the working class when we organize -- which is what Nelson spoke about.Nelson draws on diverse stories throughout the U.S.’s history to show how organizing at work not only improves people’s lives, individually and as a group but that rather than being just another form of activism, labor organizing is our most powerful weapon. NPEC Curriculum - Sara Nelson’s “Solidarity is a Force Stronger than Gravity" YouTube video of Sara Nelson’s “Solidarity is a Force Stronger than Gravity" Send us Fan MailBecome a member of Democratic Socialists of America.Sign up to receive NPEC's newsletter, Red Letter. 

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Sara Nelson took office as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO on June 1, 2014, and she is currently serving her second four-year term. Sara became a United Airlines Flight Attendant in 1996 and has been a union activist since nearly the beginning of her career, including serving as strike chair and leading communications for nearly 10 years at AFA’s United chapter. In the summer of 2019, she addressed DSA’s largest ever Convention, which o...

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