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Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:19 AM Sep 2016

The South Is Organizing — and There’s No One to Cover It

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By Mike Elk

... There are 50 million workers in the South and not a single full-time labor reporter ...

If we want to organize the South, workers here need to know about the massive organizing already going on around them. Fortunately, there is a growing Southern press movement ...

Organized labor spends tens of millions of dollars each year on public relations, but often they are merely hiring people to pitch labor stories to reporters who just don’t exist ...

It wasn’t always this way. In the 1930s, the labor movement funded a massive independent press that helped lead to its big organizing gains ...


https://psmag.com/the-south-is-organizing-and-theres-no-one-to-cover-it-b7bbe92a0862#.dtjdpibgd

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The South Is Organizing — and There’s No One to Cover It (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2016 OP
should be a huge story rurallib Sep 2016 #1
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