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Graham Platner: “Historically, organized labor has always really been the…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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I firmly believe that re empowering organized labor is going to be one of the keys to building the power necessary to really take back our democracy from corporate interests, honestly, from the interest of money, from the interests of billionaires. Historically, organized labor has always really been the kind of foundation of any kind of real movement politics that is able to advocate for working people. And so being able to build a close relationship with labor, being able to Go be an advocate for labor in the United States Senate. (02:22–02:33)

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Asserts that organized labor has historically been foundational for movement politics advocating for working people.

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