A Civil Right to Organize

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)"Our democracy is corrupted," says CWA President Larry Cohen in the latest issue of Poverty & Race. "Money is not speech. Corporations are not people. Our path to change must rely on massive movement-building, uniting economic justice and democracy." Cohen is responding to “A Civil Right to Organize,” the cover article in the publication’s Jan/Feb issue, a précis of Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right, the new book by Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit. “This attack on the fundamental right of workers to freely join unions not only threatens economic opportunity but also the strength of our democracy,” adds AFT President Randi Weingarten, “taking out the only true way—at either the bargaining table or the ballot box—that working families can have a say in their own destiny.” Click here for a free download or for a hard copy of the 24-page issue, mail a SASE (large size and 85 cents postage) to Chester Hartman, PRRAC, 1200 18th St. NW, #200, Wash., DC 20036.