![]() ![]() And I took her to the emergency room in Hoboken, actually, because it was closer. And I remember one snowy night in Jersey City, she had a temperature of 105. Ways that the trans fight in North Carolina right now might be tied into some of the fights that you were having 40-50 years ago.Īnd, in our life, before any of those were available to us, Leslie got very sick. Do you see levels of intersection that maybe most of us are missing. We’re going to come back to your history but looking back on your career with all of the types of organizing and consciousness-raising that you’ve done. And just kind of the long history of labor organizing as a part of civil rights organizing, and even gay rights organizing, a lot of that comes down to labor discrimination and issues like that. ![]() But it’s certainly something that’s been on top of mind here in the state for several weeks now. Labor organization, by the time this airs, we may know the results of the Amazon vote here in Alabama. Hammontree: It’s interesting to hear you talk about your entry point into a long career of activism being, effectively, a labor movement. I feel like me and Jesse Helms, we were like toe-to-toe for a heck of a lot of years, John. Eventually organizing around the Equal Rights Amendment in North Carolina, which kept going down to defeat at the hands of by then Senator Jesse Helms. ![]()
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