Paul and Congress

Globalization as we once knew it is dead.

We are going to keep pushing forward, no matter what.

When you go to war, some people will die.

Next year, it's going to be a Waymo in a tux.

This moment calls for honesty, it calls for reflection, and it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on.

I gotta have lived through some stuff. I gotta make my mistakes. I gotta win enough to get the wisdom part and then I gotta lose enough to speak honestly.

To me, it all goes together so well, ’cause it’s all so me. I never had a conversation with myself about ‘Oh, this fits,’ or, ‘This doesn’t fit.’ It was just, ‘I like this feeling, I like this feeling, I like this feeling,’ create a loose structure for what it could be, get together with musicians who are sensitive and caring, and go for it.

I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work. The formation of a union was the only vehicle to accomplish and secure those rights and I wasn’t going to let Cesar or anyone else get in the way.