Why Is the ACLU Waging Class Warfare? | The Nation

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The assumption that management’s job is to destroy unions is so deeply embedded in our society that even the iconic civil liberties organization is not immune. Tom Morello speaks about the ACLU at the Minetta Lane Theatre on September 18, 2019, in New York City. It is human nature to think of ourselves as good people. Both individuals and the organizations that we build have a powerful thirst to believe that our actions are noble, and to frame the rest of the world in a way that supports this belief. Despite this, the world is full of institutionalized injustices. How does this happen? How do people with such righteous ideas about themselves wind up supporting the drearily repugnant set of practices that plague our social and economic systems? In America, one of the most common paths from Point A to Point B runs through an unassuming door labeled “union-busting.” If you can get an organization to feel animus toward unions, an entire universe of awful politics can unfold before them. Ca

Economy / March 14, 2024 Why Is the ACLU Waging Class Warfare? The assumption that management’s job is to destroy unions is so deeply embedded in our society that even the iconic civil liberties organization is not immune. Hamilton Nolan Share Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Ad Policy Tom Morello speaks about the ACLU at the Minetta Lane Theatre on September 18, 2019, in New York City. (Lindsay Brice / Getty Images) It is human nature to think of ourselves as good people. Both individuals and the organizations that we build have a powerful thirst to believe that our actions

Why Is the ACLU Waging Class Warfare? | The Nation

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