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Eric Willis

Eric Willis is a father who lives in north Minneapolis and is a leader with Freedom Fighters, a committee of Black workers within Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL), which is a non-profit in Minneapolis where workers organize and educate each other to fight for better conditions and a voice in the workplace and the community.

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Juneteenth: The struggle for freedom and workers’ right to thrive | Opinion

By: - June 18, 2021

On a cold day in December 2018, I was helping my son and daughter get ready for school. It was early in the morning and my kids had missed the school bus. They were running late and we were trying to get all their stuff together. Without any warning, a flashbang went off in the […]