Jane McAlevey: Prepare to Hit the Streets After Election Day
Labor organizer and strategist Jane McAlevey saw the disaster of the 2000 Florida recount close up. This time, she says, the labor movement will be crucial in the fight to “force the Democratic Party to do something that we don't think that they're going to do on their own.”
Labor organizer and strategist Jane McAlevey.
For The Vast Majority podcast, Jacobin’s Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht spoke to labor organizer and strategist Jane McAlevey about the Democratic Party’s lack of a power analysis in the contested 2000 election, and how this time the only way to secure a Trump defeat in the event of election-stealing is to stop playing by the rules and exercise power in the streets.
This abridged conversation grows out of two pieces of McAlevey’s writing: the introduction to her Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), which we published in Jacobin, and “Getting Out of Tight Corners,” an article McAlevey published earlier this month at the New York Review of Books.
Micah Uetricht
Recently in Jacobin we ran an excerpt from your first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), about the 2000 election and what you saw in South Florida. What happened there, and where did the Democrats go wrong?
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