Primer: Thinking Outside the Big Box
Lessons from attempts to organize Walmart with Alex Han
January 5, 2022
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Episode 15 · January 5, 2022
Primer: Thinking Outside the Big Box
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<p>This week, we speak with Alex Han, executive editor of Organizing Upgrade about a recent conversation he moderated between an Amazon activist named Howard and Wade Rathke, chief organizer of ACORN in the U.S. from 1970 – 2008. The discussion focuses on the successes and failures of organizing during the era in which Walmart was the ascendant force in commerce, a role Amazon plays today.</p>
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</p><p>Organizing Upgrade published the conversation as a three part series you can read <a href="https://www.organizingupgrade.com/what-can-organizers-at-amazon-learn-from-walmart/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.</p><p></p>
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