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“You are also competing with the guy that goes on TikTok and eats 10,000 pieces of meat and is a superstar. Right? So Superstardom is no longer exclusive to artists or filmmakers or actors. I really feel for the artists.” Foza Fawehinmi, Presi
“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read it. Those voices are up in the ether, and they will remain there until the earth falls into the sun. So any
“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal. We held these bad boss contests. Where, the first winner was a boss who had asked his secretary to sew up a hole in his pants while he was wearing them. So it was real
“We tend to be so lucky in Zambia and Africa because much of the land that we own, most people just inherit it. You don't buy it. And and yet you're sitting on this inherited land and not making it productive.You can’t send your kids to school,
“Look at economics from the standpoint of the ability to increase the potential relative population density the number of people that you can potentially support in a given square kilometer.“And that's what economics really is about. It's abou
“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out, they're dispersed, very transient workplaces and so they're very low density unions. And also, renewable energ
“There's still people on social media who say, ‘You know, we should just shut up and suck it up. We can get through the winter, even if it's a bit colder.’ But it won't be a bit colder. It might end up being a lot colder and there might be ener
“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear if the economy in which that class struggle is happening isn't growing and isn't producing surplus.”Christ
“You could basically do anything. And so I took that one step further and I was like, okay, let me make a movie on my own or at least get it as far as I can get it, without a huge production crew. And so, that's been a labor of love.” Patrick
“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about the dues part of it because you'll get to see the contract and do the math. If the dues are worth it, sign
“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on people or make people degrade themselves and help them to do that. But power in history is what we're aiming
“Our world is really all we got. This planet, at least right now, this planet Earth. So I'm like, I'm just trying to have the power within my community, build, breathe and do more with our imagination to create, you know, to be intentional with
"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!"Cecil Roberts is a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). This was recorded in Sharples, West Vi
“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes people…I mean, it obviously educates people and opens their eyes to how important labor is. And also you have peo
"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding their worth."Luke Rockhold is an American professional mixed martial artist (MMA). Rockhold is currently
“One coal operator quite explicitly said that you need a judicious mixture of white mountaineers, black workers from the Jim Crow south, and immigrant workers in order to maintain division. So the effort was very intentional to divide workers a
“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.”"We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is
“We needed something for our nuclear workers because we have so many sectors at the United Steel Workers…So I decided to start this newsletter [Nuclear Times] because our Atomic Energy Workers Council is incredible. Those folks know more about
“These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying job
“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”Michael Gene Sullivan is an actor, writer, director, blogger, and teacher committed to developing theater o
“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!”Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the movie Glory, when the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment gather for prayer on the eve of t
“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.”Princy Mthombeni Princy Mthombeni is an award winning communications specialist, nuclear energy advocate, entrepreneur, philant
“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.”Energy is Everything. It sustains all life.Without securing reliable and affordable energy, a nation will perish.A political economy oriented to pr
"We will shape and mold this country or it will not be shaped and molded at all any more."Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace, dear Nina. T
“They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?”Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American ExperimentYou can watch the full
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