HITJ has an in depth conversation with accomplished social justice and labor organizers, activists, communicators, and educators Camilo Viveiros Jr. , from the University of Massachusetts Labor Education Center, and Humberto Da Silva, a union organizer, civilian journalist, commentator and author based in Toronto. We speak about the difference between labor organization theory and practice, their experiences organizing immigrant workers, and how their upbringing in working class Portuguese immigrant communities shaped their outlook and approach.
In their opening segment, Miguel and Gil talk about their own first protests; protest culture in Portugal vs North America; the importance of joy and festa in Portuguese social activism.
Miguel and Camilo recorded at the WJFD Radio station, the oldest Portuguese radio station in New England and an important community institution. Gil and Humberto recorded from Toronto.
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