Excerpt |"He is also a leader of the U.S.’s largest Marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America. A veteran of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers, Medina was mentored by legendary organizer Fred Ross. The Alinskyite Ross trained UFW organizers Marshall Ganz, Miguel Contreras and Medina in voter outreach strategies to reach “occasional” voting Latinos and these three took what they learned to California politics. Ganz and Medina then brought this voter outreach model to the Obama campaign, while Medina would serve on Barack Obama’s 2008 Latino Advisory Council. Medina joined SEIU in 1986, where he helped revive a local union in San Diego — building its membership from 1,700 to over 10,000 in five years. He was a key strategist in the Los Angeles strike by SEIU Local 1877′s building service workers, who in April 2000 won the largest wage increase in the 15-year history of SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign."
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 03:31:55 +0000
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