So, I’m here at the Netroots Nation convention watching real progress happen. Just the other day I and many other labor folks were lamenting the fact that the liberal blogosphere has zero time for the labor movement these days—apart, of course, from thanking us for bringing them the weekend, declaring that we’re no longer relevant, and then quickly moving on to a sexier progressive topic.
Well, those of us working in the labor movement have known for some time that this attitude is, to put it politely, a crock of crap. Liberals have been, albeit unknowingly, parroting Republican talking points on this issue and not acknowledging the fact that the progressive movement NEEDS labor just as much as labor needs the progressive movement.
So yesterday morning, a bunch of us labor people met and caucused here at Netroots, and we decided to take back Labor Day--and to invite progressive bloggers to join us in doing so. There is (already!!!) a website called www.takebacklaborday.org. And today I sat in on two panels that gave me real hope for the progressive blog/labor partnership that has to happen for Americans to prosper economically again:
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