. >> hello npa!>> and then we were joined with the national people's action and they represent small family farmers and public housing residents and all kinds of working people. >> there was a long history in the field of community organizing of different organizations actually not collaborating. actually kind of running down their own path, building their own power, but not building a movement. the director of the national domestic workers alliance, and an ally and a friend of npa. i think there was just a recognition that we were up against such big forces. that we actually don't have any choice but to collaborate. the same root causes are impacting everybody. so if you're fighting to save your home from foreclosure, or you're seeing corporate agriculture come into your state and ruin family farms, you see corporate power. and so people are making the connections. and i think organizing, and organizations likes ours and the domestic workers, help people make these connections. >> it's not that my s