Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:51 — 14.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Dr Matt Hoffman of Alina Health in Minnesota and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:21 — 18.4MB)Subscribe: RSSOn April 10th, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers opened a virtual strike authorization vote. The strike vote was tallied on Monday afternoon with 97.8 percent voting in favor. 1,031 total votes were cast with 1,008 voting in favor of striking and 23 voting against it. That means …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:58 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. But be cheered, along with Michael Mark Cohen’s website, Cartooning Capitalism: Art Young and the Cartoons of American Radicalism, there are now two …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 76.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | More This week, we speak with a group of grassroots labor organizers formerly employed at No Evil Foods, a socialist-themed vegan foods company. They describe their efforts to organize a union at the company’s Asheville manufacturing plant, and No Evil’s subsequent efforts to bust the union – …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePart One of “The Automation Ruse” aired on February 9th and featured author Jason E. Smith whose new book, Smart Machines and Service Work, is subtitled “Automation in an Age of Stagnation,” and it’s that crisis of stagnation that propels us into today’s conversation with Aaron Benanav, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:05 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ll open with “Powerhouse” performed here by Don Byron off of Bug Music from 1996. Composed by Raymond Scott in 1937, “Powerhouse” was featured in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons and perhaps best known for its use in the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon “Baby Bottleneck” which stars …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:39 — 80.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a “repackaging” of a program from August 2015 about service sector workers and the future of unions with a focus on the question can there be a labor movement with any strength in the service sector? Perhaps that movement needs to find new forms …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 46.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDockworkers have power: workers in the world’s ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Our guest Peter Cole brings such experiences to light in a comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWith Covington Catholic High School students offering a fresh examples of the embodied ideologies of Capitalism like racism, patriarchy and ecological destruction – we turn to theories of working class solidarity. If we want a social system that is not alienating—with meaningful labor, with equality in all …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:15 — 43.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show seeks to strike through the mask of the normative history of so-called progress as it’s been written and taught to children. A tale told in which the struggles of the workers of the USA are nearly disappeared. The working class not only toils for the …
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