Speech
Shuler: Oregon Is Building Lasting Power Through Organizing
… remarks as prepared at the Oregon AFL-CIO Organizing Summit in Portland: Hello everyone! I can’t tell you how great it is to be here. To be home. To be with my family here. Thank you all so much for welcoming me. I especially want to thank Tom … this moment we’re in — the new tactics, the creative ways folks are organizing — Tom is the godfather of so much of that work. Making sure our local bodies better meet the needs of working people. Turning the State Fed from just a political … entire team. Graham has taken that baton and absolutely sprinted forward with it. Our entire movement should be looking right here to Oregon for a lesson in how to get creative, how to push the envelope, how to win. And I’ll talk more about …