Power at Best of the Left

#1626 Remix - Protest Crackdown: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand and the Response is Predictable

Posted on Episodes by · May 03, 2024 4:59 PM · 1 reaction

Air Date: 5-3-2024

A look back at previous coverage of criminalizing protests, weaponizing civility, and violent responses to peaceful dissent.

#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback)

Posted on Episodes by · July 27, 2023 10:25 PM · 1 reaction

Original Air Date: 2–15-2019

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Today we take a look at the 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.

#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses

Posted on Episodes by · June 21, 2023 1:22 AM · 1 reaction

Air Date: 6–20-2023

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Today, we take a look at the story of how neoliberalism was born, how corporations were organized to help push it into the mainstream, and how the courts were reshaped to permanently tilt the rules in favor of corporate power.

#1452 Worked to Death: Pandemics Expose the Power of Labor

Posted on Episodes by · November 03, 2021 9:32 PM · 1 reaction

Air Date: 11–3-2021

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Today we take a look at the current wave of strikes and labor movements through the lens of pandemic economics and the history of businesses abuse of the worker.

#1263 Worker protections help (almost) everyone (Labor Rights)

Posted on Episodes by · April 09, 2019 8:00 PM

Air Date: 4–9-2019

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Today we take a look at the overwhelming benefits to society of labor, health and safety regulations and how they only people who don't come out ahead are those who have to pay for them

#1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement

Posted on Episodes by · February 15, 2019 8:00 PM · 1 reaction

Air Date: 2–15-2019

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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.

#1208 Collective power through solidarity (Unions)

Posted on Episodes by · September 07, 2018 6:00 AM

Air Date: 9–7-2018

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Today we take a look at several of the ways that average people benefit from collective action including unionization, class action lawsuits and politically attuned investing of pooled pension funds. Plus, making the obvious case for why the Democratic Party needs to get wholeheartedly on board with policies that unwaveringly support working people and empower collectivism.