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It’s Gotta Be Done

by Liz Holmbeck — Minnesota

Last July we were out organizing the great folks in the Duluth, specifically in the Piedmont Heights area. It had just started to get dark, I knocked on this door and waited, from behind the door I hear a small voice ask, “who is there?” She opened the door, and I introduced myself and told her what we were up to in Duluth. She invited me in, and told me how she wished I wasn’t out in the dark. As we chatted, she told me about her life a bit. How when she was my age she worked for a telephone company and picketed back in the forties. As I was leaving she grabbed my hand and told me she was so happy to see us young kids out here doing this work. I left her door, but not before telling her thanks for her hard work all of her life, and that we will continue building the movement. It’s gotta be done.