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  1. Monthly Labor Report: Jesse Jackson---A Leader in the Fight For Labor and Working Class Solidarity

    FEB 25

    Monthly Labor Report: Jesse Jackson---A Leader in the Fight For Labor and Working Class Solidarity

    The Labor Report welcomes with Gene Bruskin, veteran labor organizer, anti-war activist, and play write, known for leading one of the most significant private sector union victories of the 21st century, namely the successful effort to unionize 5,000 workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in North Carolina -- a victory which is documented in the film Union Time. Gene Bruskin shares the story of his long association and collaboration with Rev. Jackson focusing on Jesse's groundbreaking initiatives to forge alliances with the multi-racial working class and organized labor.Hosts: Richard Hill and Michael Zweig

    27 min
  2. After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain

    FEB 19

    After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain

    Interview with Ben Linden, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Europe and Central Asia, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Ben Linden, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Europe and Central Asia, who assesses the current state of the war and prospects for a lasting peace.

    7 min
  3. Students Stage National Anti-Ice Walkout, Launch ‘Spring Surge to Melt ICE’

    FEB 19

    Students Stage National Anti-Ice Walkout, Launch ‘Spring Surge to Melt ICE’

    Interview with Lily Mercado, a Connecticut activist with Dare to Struggle Connecticut conducted by Scott Harris. Lily Mercado talks about anti-ICE student protests that took place across the U.S. on Friday, Feb. 13 — and the organizing going on now among national student groups for the ‘Spring Surge to Melt Ice’ campaign.

    14 min
  4. States Push for New Taxes on Rich to Replace Trump-GOP Budget Cuts to Vital Social Safety Net Programs

    FEB 19

    States Push for New Taxes on Rich to Replace Trump-GOP Budget Cuts to Vital Social Safety Net Programs

    Interview with Kamolika Das, local policy director with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, conducted by Scott Harris. Kamolika Das talks about a current nationwide effort to raise revenue in states to replace billions of dollars in vital local and state funding for social safety net programs that were lost in last year’s Trump-GOP budget mega-bill that dramatically cut social programs while giving away huge tax cuts for profitable corporations and the rich.

    18 min
  5. Trump Regime’s Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Resistance

    FEB 19

    Trump Regime’s Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Resistance

    Interview with Andrea Pitzer, journalist and author of the book, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, conducted by Scott Harris. Andrea Pitzer examines Donald Trump’s current violent mass deportation campaign and the haunting similarities to Germany’s rounding up, brutalizing and imprisoning immigrants, Jews and other minority groups in concentration camps in the 1930s.

    18 min
  6. In Second Term, Trump Acts to Eliminate America’s Multiracial Democracy

    FEB 19

    In Second Term, Trump Acts to Eliminate America’s Multiracial Democracy

    Interview with Amanda Hollowell, chief of campaigns with Color of Change, conducted by Scott Harris. Amanda Hollowell talks about her group’s 20 years of critical work advocating for racial justice. She assesses the Trump administration’s aggressive attack on America’s long struggle to achieve a multi-racial democracy and implementation of discriminatory federal policies, underscored by President Trump’s personal racism and bigotry that he regularly publicly displays in his speeches and on social media.

    27 min
  7. Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase Begins

    FEB 12

    Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase Begins

    Interview with Josh Ruebner, policy director with the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer in Georgetown University’s Program on Justice and Peace. Here he talks about the continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza and implementation of the deeply flawed second phase of the ceasefire plan.

    7 min
  8. FBI Spies on, Then Raids Washington Post Journalist’s Home in Major Attack on Press Freedom

    FEB 12

    FBI Spies on, Then Raids Washington Post Journalist’s Home in Major Attack on Press Freedom

    Interview with Kevin Gosztola, publisher of the Dissenter Newsletter and author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, conducted by Scott Harris. Kevin Gosztola talks about his recent Dissenter article, “FBI Spied on Washington Post Reporter Prior to Raiding Their Home,” the related Trump regime attacks on the First Amendment with the recent arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and the mass layoff of one-third of the Washington Post staff.

    15 min
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