Today on the show, Thursday host Allen Ruff talks to Justin Akers Chacón about his new book, The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border. Justin Akers Chacón is an activist, labor unionist, and educator living in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. He is a professor of Chicana/o History at San Diego […]
Labor Day Show: Celebrating Colectivo’s Union Victory
Workers at Colectivo Coffee recently voted in favor of forming a union. This would make Colectivo the largest unionized café in the United States and provide a model for other restaurant-industry employees hoping to organize after a long year-and-a-half of precarious and sometimes dangerous working conditions under COVID. To discuss this win and what comes […]
Wisconsin Film Fest Double Feature: Unions and Socialism
The Wisconsin Film Festival is virtual again this year and running through Thursday, May 20. For today’s show, we bring you a “double feature”! Monday host Patty Peltekos speaks with two of the filmmakers from this year’s film fest. First, we hear from Gretta Wing Miller, director of How to Form a Union, a documentary […]
Union Busting Goes High Tech
100 years ago, if you were an industrialist who wanted to keep unions out of your plant, you hired the Pinkerton detective agency to infiltrate the unions and, if necessary, bust some heads. Today, corporations employ more subtle, but perhaps more effective strategies to prevent their workers from organizing. Law firms such as Ogletree Deakins […]
Should Police Be Unionized?
As calls to defund the police reverberate across America, today Thursday host Allen Ruff takes a look at the renewed controversy around police unions with labor and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher Jr. They talk about the nature of policing in a capitalist society, police accountability, the role of law enforcement in a democracy, and […]
Rethinking Democracy with Astra Taylor
During a year of non-stop election coverage, we hear the word democracy thrown around a lot. But what does this term really mean—and what can it do in the world of politics and beyond? Today on the show, Patty and co-host Thayer Reed discuss these timely and timeless questions with filmmaker, writer, and activist Astra […]
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