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Richard Trumka: We Need to Focus on our Friends
July 9, 2011Even before the budget debate -- and the breathtakingly bad June jobs numbers -- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was warning fair-weather Democrats not to count on organized labor's blank check.Bernie Sanders, Adam Hochschild, and Opposing War
May 10, 2011"The USA has got to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to everyone as a right, not a privilege," says Senator Bernie Sanders, who this week is introducing a new bill in Congress that would provide a single-payer health care system, administered at the state level, that would treat health care as a human right. Sanders' home state of Vermont is on its way to being the first state in the country with a single-payer plan, but he notes that all Americans should have that same right.The F Word: Have We Forgotten How to End Wars?
May 10, 2011Will the death of Osama bin Laden bring change in US policy? Last week on this show, one by one, our guests said no. Hopes are one thing; likely reality is something else.Richard Trumka: Fight, Mobilize, Educate Workers
May 4, 2011In Massachusetts, a Democratic state legislature voted to take away public workers' right to collectively bargain over health care, in what Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, calls "A miniature version of what we saw in Wisconsin." He notes that just like Scott Walker, these politicians are scapegoating employees who didn't cause the economic crisis.Richard Trumka, Phyllis Bennis, and US Uncut
May 3, 2011In Massachusetts, a Democratic state legislature voted to take away public workers' right to collectively bargain over health care, in what Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, calls "A miniature version of what we saw in Wisconsin." He notes that just like Scott Walker, these politicians are scapegoating employees who didn't cause the economic crisis.Thomas Frank, Gioconda Belli, and Oil Gouging
April 26, 2011"This is what's interesting in Wisconsin: I think that the Right may have picked a fight they can't win rhetorically," says Thomas Frank, who visited Wisconsin during the heat of the union battles this winter. He notes that Wisconsin was historically one of the most liberal states in the country, and the labor-liberal base there is fired up and ready to fight back.The F Word: Oil Prices: Gouge Us Baby One More Time
April 26, 2011Gas prices have been edging up since February, reaching $4 a gallon this Easter, and Republicans are gearing up to make a stink about it. To blame Democrats, that is, for setting things up this way.F Word: Remembering Geraldine Ferraro
March 29, 2011Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to receive her party’s nomination to run for Vice President is dead at 75. Her battle with blood cancer lasted a long nasty 12 years. Our battle with character assassination, a fight she also took on, is still with us.The F Word: Learning What Unions Have to Teach
March 23, 2011In a lot of the talk about attacks on labor, the focus has been on electoral politics and cash. Defunding unions will defund the Democratic party and progressive candidates who might fight for working folks.Phyllis Bennis, James Carroll, and a Stay in Wisconsin
March 21, 2011"The only restriction says there shall be no foreign occupation force, but as we know from Iraq and Afghanistan, you can have an awful lot of troops on the ground fighting and not call it an occupation," says Phyllis Bennis, explaining the United Nations resolution that led a coalition of troops to start bombing Libya this weekend.
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