“I Am of It”: Bernie Sanders on Eugene V. Debs

On this week’s Labor History Today: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders accepts the 60th annual Eugene V. Debs Award from the Eugene V. Debs Foundation in Terre Haute, Indiana — and pays tribute to the labor legend not as a figure of the past, but as an inspiration for the struggles of today. From the Pullman Strike to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, from Debs’ call for human kinship — “while there is a soul in prison, I am not free” — to Sanders’ warning about today’s billionaire class, this episode connects the struggles of the past to the movements of the present.
Plus, music by The Local Honeys, who performed at the Debs dinner, and Labor History in 2:00 remembers Debs.

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