Interview with Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue's labor reporter

Kim Kelly is Teen Vogue's labor columnist and has written a series of excellent pieces on labor politics for the #resistance glossy.

Kelly has had a distinguished career as a journalist and a labor organizer (she led the union drive at Vice) and has incredibly smart things to say about labor politics in the current moment.

KIM KELLY: Thats a big question, and I dont think theres an easy answer. I think the Green New Deal is a good start, but thats assuming that we can even make it work. I think its very easy to understand why people in these industries are scared. If youre going to work every day, trying to feed your family, trying to just get through life, and then it seems like everyone is screaming at you about how youre killing the planet, your job is a problem, it needs to be legislated out of existence, of course youre going to push back to that because its easy to make grand proclamations and talk about big solutions, but its really hard to make your rent. Theres a disconnect there, and I think thats something that really I think the labor movement needs to really be rallying around these workers and actually putting in the effort to create infrastructure that will lead to a just transition.

You cant just send a couple of people with laptops down to teach people in West Virginia how to code. Thats something that you can do, but that cant be all of it.