But John Sweeney's AFL-CIO has looked beyond its own apparat , opened up its horizons, and started to imagine how big and powerful the working class might be. The unions have opened up an Organizing Institute, and a new generation of brilliant organizers has come up. Labor has started winning big strikes, not only in New York and Los Angeles, where you might expect it, but in Las Vegas and North Carolina. We should listen for jaytalk here. There is no way to reach multitudes of people except through media of mass communication.
Many people think our mass media inevitably turn all ideas into banal slogans.
New media played crucial roles creating and developing the critical culture of the sixties. As communications technologies metastasize, it will be even harder not to be flooded out tomorrow. All this material shows impressive brains and sensitivity and critical awareness. If only we knew how to break open those rooms, we could build Greenwich Villages in cyberspace. In these new experimental neighborhoods, the critical culture of tomorrow could be born.