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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #7: Social Arsonists
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âA good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.â
Those are the words of Fred Ross, the organizer who trained Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and many others whoâve shaped the labor movement. Ross is little-known outside of organizing circles, but journalist and author Gabriel Thompson aims to change that. Heâs writing a new biography of...