What's Been Done and What's Been Won

Bob Ostertag
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Bob Ostertag is a lifelong musician, writer and filmmaker. Maureen Taylor is a lifelong soldier for the poor in Detroit, Michigan. Together, they bring you discussions of politics, environment, and culture, drawing on the social networks of an internationally touring musician and writer, with the perspective and wisdom that can only come from a life lived among those with the least.

  1. 04/25/2021

    Police Violence: A Long-Term Perspective

    A special edition devoted to recent police violence. Maureen Taylor brings to the table the experience of 30 years in social work in Detroit.

  2. 04/13/2021

    Truth Commission in Washington DC

    Maureen Taylor and Bob Ostertag welcome special guests Rick and Michele Tingling-Clemmons from Washington DC.

  3. 03/29/2021

    Introducing Season Two

    Maureen Taylor and Bob Ostertag catch up on events since the close of Season 1, and discuss the special guests coming in Season 2.

  4. 12/24/2020

    Maureen's Lawsuit Against the Billionaire President Catches Fire

    Groups from around the country add their names and voices to Maureen's lawsuit against the billionaire president.  Meanwhile, yet more victories are won in the fight to make utilities affordable for the poor.

    Maureen's Lawsuit Against the Billionaire President Catches Fire

  5. 12/13/2020

    Not Water Assistance, Water AFFORDABILITY

    Maureen reports on the decision by both the Detroit city government and the Michigan state government to have NO WATER SHUTOFFS for the duration of the pandemic. A major victory for low income people, She then explains the difference between "assistance" and "affordability" – affordability meaning that low income people are are billed for the basic necessities of life on the basis of income, and the coming attempt to take the affordability model national.

    Not Water Assistance, Water AFFORDABILITY

  6. 12/05/2020

    Maureen Taylor Sues Donald Trump

    Maureen Taylor and two more black women in Detroit sue Donal Trump for violating the Voting Rights Act, through his repeated insistence that the only votes that should not be counted in Michigan are the votes from the overwhelmingly black precincts.

  7. 11/12/2020

    Meet Myrna Melgar

    In this special edition which focuses for the first time on Bob Ostertag's home city of San Francisco, we meet Myrna Melgar, the first Latina EVER elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors without first being appointed to the seat. Myrna's family fled  El Salvador where her family had been torn apart by civil war, the same war on which Bob spent much of the 1980s working as an activist and journalist.

  8. 10/31/2020

    Final preparations and thoughts before voting

    Maureen and Bob are joined by EB Jordan, speaking from her car as she drives around Detroit after dark trying to find an open store that has PPE that she can buy and offer to those waiting in line to vote on Election Day.  And this is after she spent the last few days organizing felons one at a time: explaining that they have the right to vote, and then helping them do so. If you need some insightful, fierce, optimistic final thoughts on the election from someone out in the street fully engaged in the struggle, look no farther.

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Bob Ostertag is a lifelong musician, writer and filmmaker. Maureen Taylor is a lifelong soldier for the poor in Detroit, Michigan. Together, they bring you discussions of politics, environment, and culture, drawing on the social networks of an internationally touring musician and writer, with the perspective and wisdom that can only come from a life lived among those with the least.

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