Mariah Parker, a.k.a. Linqua Franqa, is a battle-tested rapper, an experienced local government official, and a dedicated labor organizer — and they don't see any contradiction between any of those roles.
workers’ rights campaign. “In the constant churn of electoral politics, there’s crisis after crisis, and we’re so stuck in defense mode; it’s so claustrophobic within the bureaucracy, it’s easy to lose your way and become untethered from your values and your vision for where all of this needs to be headed,” they tell me. “All that I have aimed to achieve as a politician is still possible with the people in the fights, rather than them relinquishing their power to a supposed representative.
The radically pro-worker, pro-union, impossibly catchy song and its accompanying video gained more attention for Linqua Franqa. It also electrified labor activists who grew up on beloved but dusty classics from Joe Hill and Pete Seeger, but have been hungry for a more modern workers’ rights anthem. With “Wurk,” Linqua Franqa delivers that necessary fire, drawing from labor’s past to illuminate its future.
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