Episode 60: Why Go Mainstream When You Can Breakthrough?

Paseo Podcast: Sharing Puerto Rican Stories

We welcome Monica Cruz. She's a labor reporter with BreakThrough News and host of the weekly podcast, On the Picket Line. She's a 3rd generation Afro-Boricua raised in New Jersey and an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. We discuss the PRO Act, a major labor legislation that could transform the lives of working class people and labor organizing, and what that means for Puerto Ricans, the wider BIPOC community and the working class as a whole.

We also talk about why it’s so hard to make a good Mofongo, where mainstream media is lacking in their reporting on labor and her labor reporting for BreakThrough news, especially what she experienced during the Amazon Warehouse unionization efforts in Alabama.

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★ About Our Guest(s) ★

BreakThrough News Website ★ https://www.breakthroughnews.org

Monica Cruz's Twitter ★ https://twitter.com/palantemami

★ Partners + Additional Credits ★

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Puerto Rican Cultural Center Website ★ https://prcc-chgo.org

CIMA ★ https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/independent-media-alliance-about-cima/Content?oid=82156315

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Production Assistant, Richie Requena Twitter ★ https://twitter.com/RichieRequena

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