We just got done covering the primary in South Carolina. Our work had an enormous impact with our video of Bernie talking to a teacher working 4 jobs got over 200K views.
Watch: Bernie says a teacher shouldn't have to work 2 jobs then a teacher interrupts him & says she works 4 jobs.
Now, we are in Charlotte, where we plan to focus on how immigrants are organizing for Bernie.
.@AriannaGenis of @ConMijente on how the Sanders campaign is helping to build the organizing capacity for immigrants rights organizations like hers that will have long-term effects well beyond the campaign.
During the GM strike, Zach and I filed 28 stories and 31 videos during 40 days of coverage from 5 different states. This time around, we hope to do the same and if we can raise enough money, we may stay on the road longer to keep covering the primary.
A protege of Bill Greider, Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter who covered Lula & the drug war in Brasil and spent years covering union organizing in the South for The Guardian. In 2016, he used his NLRB settlement from being fired illegally for union organizing at Politico to start the crowd-funded Payday Report. The son of retired United Electrical Workers (UE) Director of Organization Gene Elk, he was once described as an "abrasive gadfly" by the New York Times for his role in exposing sexual misconduct in the labor movement. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Email: [email protected]
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