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Spark Your Imagination with Erica Smiley
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What is the future we can't yet imagine? How can we center equity and dignity in our organizing? Erica Smiley is a long-time labor organizer with a vision for addressing some of today’s most urgent challenges in the ongoing struggle for multi-racial democracy. During this episode, she and George talk about what we can learn from the past in order to build what we need for the future. Smiley pushes us to use radical imagining and not to be limited by the conditions we are in.
- Smiley has a new book out with co-author Sarita Gupta called “The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century”. Purchase it here or get it from your local library!
- You can find out more about Smiley’s work here.
- Find Smiley’s recent writing on labor rights, vulnerability and the labeling of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic here.
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When? This feed was archived on September 28, 2025 12:07 (). Last successful fetch was on December 09, 2024 18:26 ()
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What is the future we can't yet imagine? How can we center equity and dignity in our organizing? Erica Smiley is a long-time labor organizer with a vision for addressing some of today’s most urgent challenges in the ongoing struggle for multi-racial democracy. During this episode, she and George talk about what we can learn from the past in order to build what we need for the future. Smiley pushes us to use radical imagining and not to be limited by the conditions we are in.
- Smiley has a new book out with co-author Sarita Gupta called “The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century”. Purchase it here or get it from your local library!
- You can find out more about Smiley’s work here.
- Find Smiley’s recent writing on labor rights, vulnerability and the labeling of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic here.
Subscribe to our Substack here.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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