Tenacious Podcast
Tenacious: Conversations with Red State Progressives is hosted by Mimi Garcia. She talks with progressive activists and leaders throughout the US doing some of the toughest organizing and mobilizing work in the country.
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Feb. 10, 2025: When we fight, we win.
In the second episode of the podcast Mimi discusses recent attacks on workers' rights by the Trump administration and the importance of organizing labor movements with guest Seth Hutchinson of the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
About Seth Hutchinson
Seth Hutchinson is a regional lead organizer with the Communications Workers of America, District 6, which covers the states of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. Seth got his start organizing in college working in his college cafeteria and later began organizing with the CWA local union, the Texas State Employees Union. Seth has been an organizer for more that 15 years.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
Contact a union organizer via the AFL-CIO: https://aflcio.org/formaunion/contact
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, by Jane F. McAlevey, Find it here.
February 3, 2025: Hi Y’all!
Welcome to this first episode of the Tenacious podcast, conversations with Red State progressives. In this episode Mimi talks about how and why she started the podcast and what’s ahead. She also talks about hope as a practice or discipline and that it’s hard work to stay engaged in progressive movement work when it feels like everything is against you.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
We do this ‘til we free us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, by Mariame Kaba (Author), Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword). Find it on Bookshop
Hope Is a Discipline: Mariame Kaba on Dismantling the Carceral State, podcast episode from Intercepted, March 17, 2021.