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| John Logan, Veena Dubal
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| Organizing Amazon in Alabama; Anti worker Prop 22
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John Logan, labor historian at SFSU, on the organizing initiative of Amazon workers in Alabama, taking on a notoriously anti-union company in the midst of a pandemic. The implications for this struggle are nothing less than historic, and titanic: taking on Amazon is akin to what it was to take on General Motors in the 1930s, with the same implication for capital-labor relations in contemporary capitalism. We also get John Logan’s views of President Biden’s promising labor-friendly measures and appointments.
Veena Dubal, Law Professor at UC Hastings on the exploitative condition of precarious platform workers, particularly in the ride-share companies. She says the passage of Prop 22 in California has emboldened these companies to go national, and is a grim precedent that poses extreme danger to workers everywhere. Veena strikes a note of hope for the new administration so far, but affirms that organizing will be the key.
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Sunday, January 24, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| John Nichols, Eric Alterman
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| Trump, GOP & Impeachment; Fundamentals of media ecosystem
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John Nichols on President Trump’s second impeachment for inciting a seditious mob to attack the US Capitol as part of a failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. John’s article, "Trump’s Congressional Co-Conspirators Are Just as Guilty as the President" makes the case that it is not just Trump, but also his Congressional backers who have to be held accountable. They continue to embrace Trump’s lies, and for the most part, refuse to sanction him. Nichols argues against the developing consensus that the Republican Party is fracturing, and insists that despite a handful of defections, the Republican Party is still Trump’s Party. We get his views.
Eric Alterman has covered the media in "The Nation" for nearly 25 years and his latest column focuses on the main ideas he has been trying to get across overall. He writes that the titanic changes that have taken place in the media ecosystem make it easy to get lost in the frenzy -- and miss what is really essential: the underlying structures of power that are generally not seen, and which ensure that the system is the opposite of democratic. Eric calls these the “structural failings that underlie our politics” and says we have to Look Beyond the Media Frenzy and Focus on the Fundamentals -- the title of his last column – and we get him to explain.
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Sunday, January 17, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, Robert Brenner
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| Blocking Biden's worst cabinet picks; Whither the GOP & Dems
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CODEPINK's Marcy Winograd & Medea Benjamin on blocking Biden’s most objectionable national security and foreign policy nominees, like China hawk Michele Flournoy for Secretary of Defense, and torture defender Mike Morrel for CIA. They are now concentrating on Avril Haines, tainted by Drones and torture. We also get their assessment of the present moment and their mobilizing and organizing campaign plans.
UCLA Economic Historian Robert Brenner takes a deeper look at the Republican Party after Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6. While many posit a fracturing of the Republican Party post Trump, Brenner says that Trump and the Trumpistas define the Party, notwithstanding a small number of defections. So whither the Republicans and MAGA? And what does this mean for the Democratic Party after its stunning success in the election – and especially in Georgia? The Democratic Party now has a huge opening to take advantage of the multiple crises we face in this moment, but will they? We get Brenner’s take.
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Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Matt Karp, Rob Wallace, Graham Christensen, Meleiza Figueroa
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| Highlights from 2020
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Year end review of 2020 as we head into 2021. Just twelve months ago we were looking back on a year of mass protests that rocked the globe, seemingly only gathering force when the Pandemic descended. 2020 is the year of the Pandemic that is charging and changing everything in its path, accelerating and deepening economic and climate crises already in motion. And 2020 was also an election year, an election that pivoted on the pandemic, the economy, the climate, as much as the chaos of the Trump administration. We bring some memorable episodes from 2020: Highlights from contributing editor of Jacobin, Matt Karp, with his analysis of the 2020 election in geographic, demographic and political terms. The Democrats may have won back the Blue Wall, but Trump also secured a record vote, and the Democrats did badly in down ticket races. We get Matt’s insights on the Democratic Party’s election strategy and results – as well as what they portend for the Left of the Party. We talked to evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace in July 2020 about the underlying structural conditions that help explain the outbreak of infectious diseases, including the novel coronavirus behind this pandemic. He looks at the systemic roots of the globalized dystopia of capitalism in decline, touching on everything, from industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, global commodity chains and travel networks, to bring us the big picture. Graham Christensen, a fifth generation family farmer in Northeastern Nebraska joins the conversation along with geographer and eco-researcher/activist – and our producer/director -- Meleiza Figueroa. They are working on ways communities are creating mutual aid efforts -- in the absence of government response – in the renewed lockdowns. Graham also talks about how to retool rural communities to survive, and all three are involved with Pandemic for the People. It’s worthwhile listening.
Wishing you all a much better 2021.
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Sunday, December 27, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:11 |
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| Irv Weissman
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| Coronavirus Vaccine science & politics
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| Irv Weissman, Director of Stanford University’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine joins to give us a clear and comprehensive explanation of the new COVID vaccines. The FDA has just given emergency authorization for the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine, which like Moderna is an mRNA vaccine. This authorization comes in the wake of a punishing wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths as COVID rampages across the globe, with the highest rates of infection and death in the US. California is once again on lockdown. Consider this a primer on vaccines in general but COVID in particular – and we get answers to questions about how the new COVID vaccines work, what makes them revolutionary – and what obstacles -- structural, political and scientific – need to be understood – and possibly pushed out of the way?
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https://www.ludwigcancerresearch.org/success-story/idea-man-qa-with-irv-weissman/
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| Irv Weissman
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| Coronavirus vaccine science & politics
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| Irv Weissman, Director of Stanford University’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine joins to give us a clear and comprehensive explanation of the new COVID vaccines. The FDA has given emergency authorization for the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine, which like Moderna's is an mRNA vaccine. This authorization comes in the wake of a punishing wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths as COVID rampages across the globe, with the highest rates of infection and death in the US. California is once again on lockdown. Consider this a primer on vaccines in general but COVID in particular – and we get answers to questions about how the new COVID vaccines work, what makes them revolutionary – and what obstacles -- structural, political and scientific – need to be understood – and possibly pushed out of the way?
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Sunday, December 13, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:07 |
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Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Alan Minsky, Meleiza Figueroa, Matt Karp
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| Maradona tribute; 2020 election analysis
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Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and geographer, environmental and social justice activist Meleiza Figueroa pay tribute to Diego Maradona, the brilliant futbolista who always spoke truth to power. Alan and Meleiza are producers of the quadrennial People's Game -- as well as this program -- and today bring their insights and appreciation of Maradona, the soccer legend who died earlier this week at just 60 years of age.
Matt Karp, Princeton historian and Jacobin contributing editor, gives us his take of the 2020 election, paying particular attention to the Democratic Party's election strategy and results, and asking what it means from here
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Sunday, November 29, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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