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| Beneath The Surface
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| Jeremy Gong, Magally Miranda Alcazar
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| DSA, the Dem. Party, Bernie Sanders & Socialist politics
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| DSAers Jeremy Gong and Magally Miranda on the challenges they face in a more favorable national context for Democratic Socialists, thanks to Bernie, AOC, #Red4Ed striking teachers, and the retrograde policies of the Trump administration. Can the left take over the Democratic Party and should that be their aim? Or should the social movement work of DSA, independent of the Dems be their focus, and how do they define socialism, and what should socialists should do given the structures of our politics and economy?
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Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:21 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Robert Brenner
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| The State of the Economy is NOT Strong
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| Robert Brenner on politics and the state of the economy � matters of great confusion if you read the Business pages and hear the politicians, all touting how robust the economy is with record low unemployment, rising wages, the recovery of the stock market. But -- the Fed stopped raising interest rates, wages are stagnant, precarity and insecurity are the norm, homelessness has exploded, student debt is staggering and suffocating -- and teachers are striking to force states to reinvest (stop underinvesting) to save public education. So what is the real story, and if the economists and pundits are getting it wrong � why is that the case? Is it cheerleading for the status quo? We get Robert Brenner�s analysis.
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Sunday, February 10, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Alex Caputo-Pearl; Jeffery Webber
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| UTLA Strike Victory; Venezuela's political & economic crisis
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Alex Caputo Pearl, President of UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles) on what was won in the strike, what funding and charter school expansion challenges they face, and what is the next chapter in this struggle for quality public schools.
Jeffery Webber of Goldsmiths at the University of London goes beneath the surface on the nature of the political and economic crisis in Venezuela. Once the richest country on the continent, sitting on the world's largest oil reserve, Venezuela is in economic free-fall. On January 23rd, Juan Guaid�, leader of the national assembly, declared himself the interim president in a move against President Nicol�s Maduro, just two weeks into his second term. The Trump administration jumped to recognize Guaido as President minutes after his declaration - and now regime change and intervention are on the table.
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Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:00 am | 0:59:46 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Joel Jordan, Mike Parker
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| UTLA Strike Victory; GM plant closures
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Joel Jordan on the LA Teachers strike victory: how they carried out the strike, making the fight for public education one that the larger community overwhelmingly supported, how they wielded the strike weapon, what limitations they faced, and what this means for the labor movement � where we are already seeing ripples from the strike. Joel is a former strategist for UTLA and currently a coordinator for nine of the largest urban teacher unions in California, including UTLA, fighting for increased public education and against school privatization.
Mike Parker, whose December 2018 analysis of the auto industry�s reorganization, and GM�s decision to close 5 North American plants � and the union�s reaction -- was so clearsighted and compelling that we are running it today. Mike worked for 32 years in auto in Detroit, is a rabble rouser, union activist and author of several books about the auto industry�s restructuring, and its effects on unions.
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Sunday, January 27, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:19 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Guests:
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| Jackie Goldberg, Eric Blanc
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| LAUSD District 5 election, charter schools, UTLA strike
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Jackie Goldberg, former teacher, member of the School Board, City Council and State Assembly is now running in the March 5th special election to the LAUSD School Board. If elected, Jackie will be an experienced and effective progressive voice for public education, opposing the charter allies elected with money from the �bankrollers [who] have stacked the deck against district public schools.� We talk to Jackie about the strike, the fight to save public education, and how the forces are aligned from Los Angeles to Sacramento to Washington.
Eric Blanc, author of the just published "Red State Revolt: The Teachers Strike Wave and Working Class Politics." has been covering the strike for Jacobin magazine. He looks at the larger issues in the UTLA strike, the billionaires arrayed against the LA schools, the dilemma this strike poses for establishment Democrats, and why this fightback is historic. Eric maintains that at its core, the strike �is a fight against a hostile takeover of public schools by the superrich.�
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Sunday, January 20, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:25 |
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