Guest: Jeremy Brecher is Research and Policy Director at the Labor Network for Sustainability. He wrote the article The Biden Climate Plan. Plus The Town Crier, poet Raymond Nat Turner. Photo by Gage Skidmore on Wikipedia
Talkies
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What’s in the news, what’s behind what’s in the news, what’s not in the news that should be in the news—and who’s doing what about it, here and now. Celebration and support from our vibrant, diverse community. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Sasha Abramsky is an author and a journalist. He is a regular contributor to the Nation Magazine. His latest piece in the Nation is We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe. Photo by Steve Knutson on Unsplash
Georgia vote suppression with guests Greg Palast. He is a journalist and an author. His latest book is How Trump Stole 2020 – The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters. Plus California Schools Opening with Ricardo Cano. He covers California education for CalMatters. Photo by Gabriel Olsen
Guest: Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She co-authored with Susan R. Holmberg the piece in the Nation magazine, Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business: It will strengthen labor and help fight … Continued
Guest: Steven Greenhouse is a labor and workplace journalist and writer. He was a New York Times reporter for 31 years. He is the author of the book Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Plus, “Not Getting Any Younger” with Marga Gomez and her new virtual show on themarsh.org/marshstream this coming weekend.
Guest: Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Democracy in Chains. Today we discuss her essay about how the far right controls the political narrative. Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash
Margaret Randall: poet, feminist, revolutionary
Guest: Margaret Randall, plus a short reading from a new comic/whodunit novel about a retirement village in England.
Cali matters! Sylvia Plath!
California unemployment benefits in massive fraud, 95% of Cali counties under curfew, small businesses in trouble—and who will take Kamala’s place in the Senate? PLUS: Lorri Holt is Sylvia Plath.Hosted by Kris Welch.
Populism, Nationalism, Socialism
John Judis joins us to talk about his recently-completed trilogy on U.S. political life and history. The final, new, publication is “The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different about the Left Now”. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Is Trump pulling off a coup? Jeet Heer opines. PLUS: the 22nd annual SF International Hiphop Dance Fest is this weekend—virtually. PLUS: the Town Crier, Raymond Nat Turner. Hosted by Kris Welch.