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A Union Nurse and Tenant Activist Eyes the New York Assembly

A conversation with Phara Souffrant Forrest.

Maximillian Alvarez March 13, 2020

(Phara for Assembly)

Maximillian Alvarez is editor-in-chief at the Real News Network and host of the podcast Working People, available at InTheseTimes.com. He is also the author of The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.

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