General Strike

Emma hosts Daisy Pitkin, organizer at Workers United, to discuss her recent book On The Line: A Story Of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build A Union. Then Emma is joined by Brianna Wu, executive director of The Rebellion PAC, to discuss the upcoming primary in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District between Nina Turner and Shontel Brown. Daisy begins by […]
Journalist and assistant professor of political science at Brown University, Alex Gourevitch, explains the reasoning by the calls for general strikes against the Trump Administration. The last general strike in America. America’s violent labor history. The Ludlow Massacre. America’s reactionary hostility to labor movements. The war on workers rights and lose of striking rights. Is […]
Welcome to Hump Day! GUEST: CHRIS HAYES We have lots of news for you today.  Sam will be talking about everything from Occupy Wall Street to the good ship The SS Cain. Join us! Links: Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis link to OccupyTulsa – cops use pepper spray on protestors who […]