00:00I firmly believe that we are facing fascism in this country.
00:02Historically, the only thing that's ever beaten that is a broad-based working-class coalition.
00:07We need to rebuild the old alliances of labor unions, community organizations, immigrant
00:12rights groups, civil rights groups, and political organizations to build power the old-fashioned
00:18way.
00:18Where organized money currently holds all the power, the only way we fight back is
00:24by organizing people.
00:25The great thing about the labor movement is that it never forgot how to do that.
00:30We are living in an America that, in many ways, we shouldn't be.
00:36We should not be living in a society where direct care workers are working 40-plus hours
00:43a week and still relying on SNAP or Medicaid, programs that Susan Collins has been happy
00:50to vote against or try to cut.
00:52We should not be living in an America where MSCA members who work as immigration social
01:00workers, case managers, support staff, where they are now bearing the brunt of a broken immigration
01:08system, while politicians like Susan Collins dump all the money into agencies like ICE so
01:15they can continue running around and terrorizing people instead of having a functional immigration
01:20system.
01:22We are living in a society which is the outcome of policy.
01:28We are living with the outcomes of decisions that are made by establishment politicians who,
01:34for decades, have been doing everything to serve those who donate the most money to them,
01:40have done everything to protect their own personal political power, and have done almost nothing
01:46to expand the services and to build a society that is actually going to provide for the average
01:51working person in this state and in this country.
01:54And I am very much looking forward to what we get to do next, together.
02:00The start of this is going to be building power.
02:02At the end of the day, I firmly believe that we are facing fascism in this country.
02:08Historically, the only thing that has ever beaten that is a broad-based working class coalition.
02:12We need to rebuild the old alliances of labor unions, community organizations, immigrant
02:18rights groups, civil rights groups, and political organizations to build power the old-fashioned
02:24way, from the ground up.
02:26Because in a society where money, where organized money currently holds all the power, the only
02:34way we fight back is by organizing people.
02:36The great thing about the labor movement is that it never forgot how to do that.
02:43It never forgot that real power comes from the ability of working folks to organize together
02:50and advocate for themselves.
02:52Historically, that is the only way we ever get to move the ball forward towards justice and equality.
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