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yallerdawg

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1. One big union!

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2015, 09:09 PM

May 2015

“We’re in a time that needs as radical social change and economic change as we needed in 1915 or 1920,” Hermida said. “It’s really easy to be scared away from trying, because it seems so impossible to do anything. It seems so impossible to get $15 an hour at times. It seems so impossible to get equal rights for undocumented workers. But then you read these stories of things that really happened. They weren’t elected officials, they were just people who were passionate, and they got things accomplished.”

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