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Organizing the South: We Look Back to Move Ahead

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Taken together, the history, economy and ruling ideology of the US South make it difficult to build workers' power. But armed with the lessons from the CIO's Operation Dixie, and fueled by the momentum of recent victories, organizers see a way forward.

Fighting AI Hype, w/ Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

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This week on the show, hosts of the podcast "Mystery A.I. Hype Theater 3000," Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics at Washington University) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research of the Distributed AI Research Institute), join Cayden to help make sense of the inescapable hype of all things “Artificial Intelligence”. What’s being over-sold? What are the actual threats? And what exactly are we talking about when we say A.I.? Hype or not, the advancement of technology in the workplace has strong implications for workers which some unions and communities are already organizing to protect themselves against.

Labor Militancy and Beyond, w/ Bob Master

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On the show this week, 45-year labor movement veteran Bob Master joins us to discuss the intersections of the ongoing protests for ceasefire in Gaza and a politicized labor movement. He and Cayden will take a deeper dive into his new piece, Militancy–and Beyond, co-published by Convergence and Jacobin. In the full article, Bob lays out the need for political strategy and education in the labor movement so it can build working-class governing  power from the recent wave of militant strikes.