#1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement
Air Date: 2–15-2019
Today we take a look at recent teachers union strike in the Los Angeles school district and see it as another event in an emerging pattern of progressive uprisings that have been stirring for the last decade, fighting back against the status quo, the neoliberal instinct to privatize everything for the ultimate benefit of billionaires.
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#1249 Understanding Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS)
Air Date: 2–12-2019
Today we take a look at both the BDS movement and the backlash response to it resulting in firings and legislation in many states (and pending federally) to restrict employment and business opportunities from those who fail to pledge in writing to not support of the boycott of Israel
Read more#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism
Air Date: 2–8-2019
Today we take a look, briefly, at the last 100 years of Venezuelan history to understand how they went from oil riches and inequality to revolution and social progress only to run afoul of American imperialism
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#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism)
Air Date: 2–5-2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic freedom for all that continues to this day.
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#1246 To amend or not to amend and if so, how?
Air Date: 2–1-2019
Today we take a look at the warring factions of progressive and conservatives who are all trying to amend the constitution in various ways. Some progressives want to call for a Convention of States to propose an amendment, as do some conservatives, while others are calling for an amendment but would rather it go through the Congress for reasons that will be explained.
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