This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Sydney Ghazarian and first timer Ashik Siddique, both climate organizers with the Democratic Socialists of America’sEcosocialist Working Groupand coordinators for DSA’sGreen New Deal and PRO Actcampaigns. Syd is the Los Angeles-based founder of the Ecosocialist Working Group and previously came onthe show to tackle everything from racism in the environmentalist movement to what we can learn from indigenous-led pipeline blockades, as well as her article inIn These Timesoutlining an agenda for escalating climate organizing through labor tactics. Ashik serves on the steering committee of the Ecosocialist Working Group and is a research analyst with theNational Priorities Project, an initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
After Ashik shares a bit about his personal path to organizing and the left, the gang jumps into the history of US labor law and breaks down how the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, whichpassed the Houseof Representatives in 2020 and again on March 9, 2021, would fundamentally alter it, from legalizing secondary strikes to extending labor protections to undocumented immigrants. Syd and Ashik discuss the emerging coalition between unions and the socialist left, as well as theconcrete waysthe PRO Act would have impacted the unionization efforts of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama.
Visitproact.dsausa.orgto sign up for phone banking in states whose senators do not yet support the bill.
Follow Ashik on Twitter@ahSHEEKand Syd@SydneyAzari. You can also follow the DSA Ecosocialist Working Group@DSAecosocialismand find out more about how to get involved in this campaign as well as their future effortshere.
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