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Gird your political loins, 2024 has arrived. It's time to cut her off at the pass, to pre-empt, to make good on resolutions ... preferably ceasefire resolutions. Labor activist and writer Bill Fletcher joins Francesca to talk union solidarity with Palestine, how Biden might be coaxed to step aside, and why the antiwar lane on the left is so wide open. And comedian Will Weldon talks about sad centrists on Twitter and Senator John Fetterman's heel turn. Finally, some "Trumpdates" that include his stench, Vanilla Ice and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Featuring: Will Weldon, comedian Bill Fletcher Jr., labor activist & author **** THE BITCHUATION ROOM IS BACK AT SF SKETCHFEST on Sunday January 28th at 7pm with Miles Gray of The Daily Zeitgeist, Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report and Nato Green. Get tickets here: https://sched.co/1VUtt The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH* Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Ins Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com

Gird your political loins, 2024 has arrived. It's time to cut her off at the pass, to pre-empt, to make good on resolutions ... preferably ceasefire resolutions. Labor activist and writer Bill Fletcher joins Francesca to talk union solidarity with Palestine, how Biden might be coaxed to step aside, and why the antiwar lane on the left is so wide open. And comedian Will Weldon talks about sad centrists on Twitter and Senator John Fetterman's heel turn. Finally, some "Trumpdates" that include his stench, Vanilla Ice and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Featuring: Will Weldon, comedian Bill Fletcher Jr., labor activist & author **** THE BITCHUATION ROOM IS BACK AT SF SKETCHFEST on Sunday January 28th at 7pm with Miles Gray of The Daily Zeitgeist, Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report and Nato Green. Get tickets here: https://sched.co/1VUtt The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH* Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Ins Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com

Part 2 of our conversation with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletcher and labor historian Jeff Schuhrke about union calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the 2024 election and more.

Part 2 of our conversation with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletcher and labor historian Jeff Schuhrke about union calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the 2024 election and more.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine: We begin with an interview about the upcoming celebration for asylum. Then, Mark Dunlea chats with Tom Morrissey of Lights Out Norlite. Later on, Willie Terry hosts a Round Table discussion entitled “The Struggle Continues.” After that, Moses Nagel sits down with Barbara Smith and Bill Fletcher ahead of their event “How to Talk About Ukraine.” Finally, Andrea Cunliffe interviews David Graham of the Albany County District Attorneys' Office.

This time Eric welcomes to CounterPunch author, activist and organizer Bill Fletcher, Jr. to discuss his recent writing, his past as a labor organizer, his outspoken position on Ukraine and imperialism, and much more. Bill and Eric discuss Bill's youth and first exposure to radical politics, his entry into organized labor, his role in helping organize Minor League Baseball, and more. The second half of the conversation explores international affairs, the responsibility of the Left in clarifying political questions, the red-brown phenomenon on the Left, and why so many leftists are so wrong on critical international issues, etc. The final part of the discussion centers on Bill's new fiction book and how he infused the story and characters with the radical politics he's professed all his life. Don't miss this belated, but exciting, conversation only on CounterPunch! More The post Bill Fletcher Jr. appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

Editor's note: Unfortunately, the original audio recording of this event contained a significant amount of echo picking up from the multiple microphones. We have done our best to diminish the echo interference while still maintaining listenable audio quality. Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a world-renowned racial justice, labor, and international activist, scholar, and author; he has served in leadership positions with many prominent labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union; he is the former president of TransAfrica Forum and the author of numerous books, including “They're Bankrupting Us!” And 20 Other Myths about Unions. He is also the author of two works of fiction: The Man Who Fell from the Sky and a new novel, The Man Who Changed Colors. At a book-launch event hosted by Red Emma's cooperative bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sat down with Fletcher, Jr. to talk about his new novel, what fiction gives us that other realms of writing and thinking don't, why the right is so much better than the left at harnessing the political power of storytelling—and what we can do to change that. Post-Production: Jules TaylorClick here to read the transcript for this episode: Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Is the antiwar left missing the forest for the trees when it comes to Russia's war on Ukraine? Bill Fletcher, organizer and writer, argues that the left has a responsibility to stand with an oppressed country fighting for its sovereignty. Plus, comedian River Butcher on Ohio's attack on transgender kids in sports, George Santos is finally indicted on 13 felony counts and finally, Ron DeSantis is requiring college and university schools to only teach "the basics": guns, manifest destiny, and missionary position. Well, we assume.Featuring:River Butcher, watch him liveBill Fletcher Jr. https://twitter.com/BillFletcherJr Watch his panel for The Real News on Ukraine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the antiwar left missing the forest for the trees when it comes to Russia's war on Ukraine? Bill Fletcher, organizer and writer, argues that the left has a responsibility to stand with an oppressed country fighting for its sovereignty. Plus, comedian River Butcher on Ohio's attack on transgender kids in sports, George Santos is finally indicted on 13 felony counts and finally, Ron DeSantis is requiring college and university schools to only teach "the basics": guns, manifest destiny, and missionary position. Well, we assume.Featuring:River Butcher, watch him liveBill Fletcher Jr. https://twitter.com/BillFletcherJr Watch his panel for The Real News on Ukraine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join a panel of activists and experts to discuss the roots, nature, and politics of the war and Ukraine's resistance. This February marks one year since Russia's imperialist invasion of Ukraine. On the anniversary, people around the world are organizing events in solidarity with Ukraine's heroic struggle for self-determination. On Saturday, February 25, 2023, please join our panel of scholars and activists for a discussion of the roots, nature, and politics of the war and the resistance. Featured Speakers: Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich and author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketization to Armed Conflict. Vladyslav Starodubstev, historian of Central and Eastern European region, and member of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh. Kirill Medvedev, poet, political writer, and member of the Russian Socialist Movement. Kavita Krishnan, Indian feminist, author of Fearless Freedom, former leader of the Communist Party of India (ML). Bill Fletcher, former President of TransAfrica Forum, former senior staff person at the AFL-CIO, and Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. Including solidarity statements from among others Barbara Smith, Eric Draitser, Haley Pessin, Ramah Kudaimi, Dave Zirin, Frieda Afary, Jose La Luz, Rob Barrill, and Cindy Domingo. This event is sponsored by The Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/WeIfVB7IykQ Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

We all want to love and accept ourselves. But how can we do that when we don't know who we are? What else gets in the way of us loving ourselves? Listen in as Diane explore the truth of who we are, what comes after the fog and much more in this empowering episode.Here's more about Diane from her website:Diane Bay has had a lifelong, unquenchable creative drive. It wasn't until she entered her fifties that she discovered where it may have come from: her artistic birth mother and birth father.The natural world has always felt like home to Diane. As a child she spent hours in the climbing tree in her suburban Chicago back yard, often daydreaming of her birth mother. Little did she know that, at the same time, her birth mom was becoming a famous actress in Hollywood. Karen Black was an icon of the American New Wave cinema of the seventies, starring in prominent films including Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and The Great Gatsby.But just as Diane longed for her natural maternal connection, Karen's heart ached for the child she gave away. But after Karen signed the closed adoption papers and a nurse carried away her daughter, all the information about the child was sealed away, and her searches turned up empty.Diane tried to find her birth mother also, but sealed adoption records made this impossible until 2011, when Illinois finally opened these records. In July of 2012 Diane received her original birth certificate and saw her birth mother's name for the first time. A quick Google search provided the facts she'd sought for decades, and a face she was familiar with from the silver screen. Right away Diane sent a Facebook message to Karen's fan page.Sadly, at the time Illinois passed the law that unsealed these records, Karen heard the terrible news that she had a rare form of cancer. Her time was running out.But then on August 8, 2012, she read Diane's message and responded with acceptance and joy. And just like that, decades of heartache for both of them vanished, and a reunion was in place. They met in September, in Karen's Hollywood home, with hugs and tears, feeling like family right away. Karen introduced her to her birth father, Robert Benedetti, still a good friend. He has also spent his life in the acting world as a TV producer, theatre director and much more.At the time of their meetings, Diane was producing excellent, nostalgic works with graphite pencils. Karen was immediately impressed, and encouraged her daughter to pursue oil painting. During the weeks Diane spent caring for Karen, she soaked up her birth mothers joie de vivre, her rich and enthusiastic love of life's moments even in the face of her own mortality. Diane's goal is to imbue her artwork with this energetic spirit.On August 8, 2013, Karen passed away. She and Diane had exactly one calendar year together.Diane Bay now lives with her husband on a forested lot near Kentucky Lake. She paints the rural nostalgic countryside of the Mid South. Diane has taken workshops from the Southeast region's fine plein air artists such as Bill Fletcher and Kathie Odom, and online tutorials by national artists such as Scott Christensen and Kathleen Dunphy. She is a member of PAPA Gallery in Paducah, KY and The Chestnut Group in Leiper's Fork, TN, and associate member of Oil Painters of America.For information on Diane's  book, please visit FindingKarenBlack.com. See her artwork here: DianeBay.comhttps://www.facebook.com/findingkarenblackhttps://www.instagram.com/dianebaydesign/

Broadcast on February 9, 2022 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith Back when he was an arc welder, longtime labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr fell 20 feet on the job; his second novel, The Man Who Changed Colors, imagines the story of another worker who didn't survive the fall, exploring the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans, Portuguese fascist gangs, and abusive shipyard working conditions on Cape Cod. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @BillFletcherJr @hardballpress

In this episode of Black Work Talk, Steven Pitts speaks with Bill Fletcher, long-time racial justice and labor activist.This is the last episode of this iteration of Black Work Talk, and we discuss many of the themes running through the two seasons of the podcast, including:Black worker organizing within a union context. The limitations of the just fights for greater representation. Neoliberalism and the challenges facing Black mayors. The complexities of fighting rightwing authoritarianism. The impact of the growing Black immigrant population in the United States on Black politics.We closed with some thoughts and suggestions for folks struggling for justice today who came of age–politically–during the last 15 years.

Debates over the proper approach to the Russo-Ukrainian War have dominated much of the year. Yet discussions within the western left have not always featured the perspectives of Ukrainians and Russians themselves. The Real News Network board member Bill Fletcher, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian academics.Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer and researcher in political economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute and the Economics and International Business Department, the University of Greenwich (UK). She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2018) and many other publications, including in Capital and Class and New Political Economy. She is vice-chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (European Sociological Association), co-coordinator of the World Economy working group, IIPPE, and an editor for Capital and Class.Alona Liasheva is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies (URBEUR) at University of Milan-Bicocca focusing on housing in Eastern Europe. She is a co-editor of Commons: Journal for Social Criticism.Ilya Budraitskis writes regularly on politics, art, film and philosophy for e-flux journal, openDemocracy, LeftEast, Colta.ru and other outlets, and teaches at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow. The Russian edition of his essay collection Dissidents among Dissidents was awarded the prestigious Andrei Bely prize in 2017.Studio: Dwayne GladdenHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Lead Pastor, Joseph Rahm, interviews Bill Fletcher to conclude the Sermon on the Mount teaching series.

Bill Fletcher debunks the bogus “replacement theory” that motivated the May 14 racist attack in Buffalo.   Today's labor quote: Bill Fletcher. Today's labor history: 100,000 strike in Philadelphia.    @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BillFletcherJr @UFCW400 Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Bill Fletcher debunks the bogus “replacement theory” that motivated the May 14 racist attack in Buffalo.   Today's labor quote: Bill Fletcher. Today's labor history: 100,000 strike in Philadelphia.    @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BillFletcherJr @UFCW400 Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Get ready for a mouth watering episode of Cooking Something Good as we dive head first into National BBQ day. Dave chats it up with Andrea because it is a Monday after all, he also gets down to BBQ business with Bill Fletcher the owner and pit-master of Fletcher's BBQ in Longmedow, MA. Check The Socials!Fletcher's BBQ:Website: https://www.fletchersbbqshop.com CSG:Website: www.csgbn.com/cookingsomethinggoodFacebook: www.facebook.com/cookingsomethinggoodSome items found for sale at csgbn.com may no longer be available

Bill Fletcher,  senior director of consumer programs for Holland America Line, talks with Alan Fine of Insider Travel Report about why Holland America has an edge in Alaska, starting with its partnerships with the BBC, Food & Wine Magazine, and its 75 years of experience, dating back to before Alaska was a state. This longevity allows Holland America to get preferential treatment when it comes to giving its guests access to Denali Park and Glacier Bay. For more information, visit www.goHAL.com.  If interested, the original video of this podcast -- with supplemental pictures and video -- can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel  or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube. 

The fourth session of "#UkraineCrisis: Building a Just and Peaceful World," a biweekly series of online convos hosted by JWE Pres. Helena Cobban and Board Member Richard Falk, joined this week by guests Bill Fletcher, Jr., Erik Sperling and Marcus Stanley. For full bios and more info, please visit bit.ly/Ukr-UpdatesSupport the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

As they stand up, slow down, form unions, leave an abusive relationship or just stir up good trouble, the characters in this multi-generation novel entertain and enlighten, make us laugh and rage, and encourage us to love deeply, that we may continue the fight for justice. Praise for Standing Up: Tales of Struggle by Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller: A love story, a tale of parenting, friendship, and solidarity — and a wonderful depiction of stepping into power. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus I felt as if Norma Rae or Studs Turkel had written a novel. Steven Greenhouse, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor Wonderful story of class, class struggle and regular people, about change and also joy. Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of The Man Who Fell Out of the Sky and Solidarity Divided These powerful tales of struggle will enrich our real and daily lives. Gloria Steinem, activist and author An essential novel for any union organizer or labor movement enthusiast. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler Great storytelling about standing up to injustice, filled with hope, powered by love and interdependence. Ai-jen Poo, director of National Domestic Workers Association Buy your copy: http://hardballpress.com/fiction--poetry.html  About the Authors  Ellen Bravo is a lifelong activist, she is the former director of 9to5 (the group that inspired the movie,) and co-founder of Family Values @ Work, a network of state coalitions working for family-friendly policies. Ellen is the award-winning writer of three non-fiction books, including Taking on the Big Boys, or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation. Her first novel, Again and Again, won praise for being a “riveting page-turner that tackles some of the most important issues of our day — campus sexual violence, male privilege, and beltway politics.” Among her commendations is a Ford Foundation Visionary award.  For more information, visit https://ellenbravo.com/.  Larry Miller has lived in a number of cities as a union and community activist. Over the years he has been a member of 8 different union locals, including AFSCME, Machinists, Steelworkers, Teamsters, Transportation Workers Union and the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association. After being laid off in his late 30s, Larry got a college degree and then taught high school for Milwaukee Public Schools for 17 years. He loved learning from his students and delighted to see many of them fight for social justice. He also became an editor at Rethinking Schools. Standing Up: Tales of Struggle is published by Hard Ball Press Tim Sheard is the Executive Editor of Hard Ball Press Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. After writing 7 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, he launched Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories. Timothy believes that when workers write and tell their stories, they build rank and file solidarity and union power, as well strengthening the fight for social justice solidarity. Their stories help to combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the One Percent. Hard Ball Press is the premier publisher of working class life. You can watch EML's interview with Tim Sheard here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/pandemic-nurse-s-diary-a-tribute-to-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19  About Empathy Media Lab The Harmony of Interest Book Talk series explores ideas that positively shape our world.  Empathy Media Lab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.  All Links: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

In this fourth episode of Black Work Talk's Season Two, co-hosts Steven Pitts and Bill Fletcher talk with Will Jones. Will is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. His particular emphasis is understanding the relationship between race and class in the United States during the 20th Century. His 2013 book, “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,” examined the role of Black labor leaders in the 1963 March on Washington and was the basis for our conversation. Beyond understanding how Black unionists were a key to the mobilization of 250,000 marchers to DC, Will discussed how this success was a function of the power of their union and their relationship with a variety of organizations in the Black community. We talked about the relevance of this insight for organizing and mobilizing today and winning durable victories. Here is a link to the publisher webpage about Will's book: https://wwnorton.com/books/the-march-on-washington/ (https://wwnorton.com/books/the-march-on-washington/) Here is an article by Will that captures some of his main points detailed in the book: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-forgotten-radical-history-of-the-march-on-washington (Will Jones "The Forgotten Radical History of the March on Washington (Dissent Magazine))

In this third episode of Black Work Talk's Season Two, co-hosts Steven Pitts and Bill Fletcher talk with Bert Bayou. Bert is DC Chapter Director of African Communities Together (ACT) and Vice President of UNITE HERE Local 23. ACT is an organization of African immigrants with chapters in Washington DC and New York. ACT provides services and organizes for power. Local 23 represents airport workers in 10 cities across the United States.  We talked about Bert's work in both organizations and it appeared that in DC, there was a great deal of overlap between the two organizations. African immigrants (mainly Ethiopian immigrants) are a large portion of the workforce at National and Dulles Airports and prior to significant worker engagement, organizers went to great length to understand the conditions of the workers in their communities. This community-orientation was important as voter engagement work was done in the 2020 Presidential Election and runoff race in Georgia. Bert also spoke of the devastating impact of the pandemic on members on the job and in their communities. https://africans.us/ (African Communities Together)  https://www.unitehere23.org/ (UNITE HERE Local 23)

Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away on December 26 at the age of 90. For much of the 1970s and 80s, Tutu was one of the foremost critics of apartheid, the South African government's official policy of racial segregation. After apartheid ended in the early '90s, Tutu was named chair of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This part of Tutu's legacy is generally known. However his activism encompassed a great deal more. Bill Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum and a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies.

On this week's show, longtime labor activist, author and commentator Bill Fletcher, Jr. talks about January 6 and the ongoing threat to democracy by right-wing terrorism on the Black Work Talk podcast…Sharon Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, takes a global view on the challenges ahead for unions on RadioLabour… Bill Samuel, director of government affairs at the AFL-CIO, on the racist roots of the Senate filibuster on the Your Rights At Work radio show…AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond has been out walking picket lines across the country and he reported on those strikes on the America's WorkForce Radio podcast…on the Educating from the Heart podcast, Representative Geraldine Thompson discussed her new legislation that will enforce laws requiring Florida schools to include Black history in their curriculum instead of just once a year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day… A former child worker and labor activist from Bangladesh, Kalpona Akter is the founder and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity. You'll hear more from her on The Labor Link podcast…on the latest episode of The Gig Podcast, we learn what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery…Judy Ancel is the host of the Heartland Labor Forum, one of the longest-running labor radio shows in the country. She talked with Empathy Media Labs about her origins as a rank-and-file union member, organizer, and troublemaker and her work as a labor educator and radio producer Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BlackWorkTalk @radiolabour @DCLabor @AWFUnionPodcast @FloridaEA @empathymedialab @Heartland_Labor @podcastgig Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

In this second episode of Black Work Talk's Season Two, co-hosts Steven Pitts and Bill Fletcher talk with April Verrett. April is president of SEIU 2015, a union of 400,000 long-term caregivers in California. April talked about the importance of Democracy Schools the union operated to engage members in basic political governance activities at the local level.  These schools were an important campaign that activates members regardless of their political identifications.  One key outcome of these schools was building bridges across partisan divides.  April also spoke of the importance of combining a sharp analysis of corporate power with an understanding of how race impacts everything.  For more information on SEIU 2015, see: https://www.seiu2015.org/ (SEIU 2015) April mentioned SEIU Racial Justice Center; here is the link to this information: https://www.seiu.org/racial-justice (SEIU's Racial Justice Center)

Ted Rall, award-winning political cartoonist, columnist, co-host of the DMZ America podcast, and author whose latest book is "The Stringer," joins us to talk about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, where five of the accused filed a 20-page motion this weekend asking for the indictment to be dismissed on the grounds that they were entrapped, and how this has been a common practice by the authorities that was constantly used in the Global War on Terror. We also talk about the case of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, who faces 24 counts of first-degree murder, along with manslaughter charges against his parents, and the ongoing chaos in the airline industry as the Omicron variant sweeps the country. Bill Fletcher, Jr., longtime trade unionist, writer and a past president of TransAfrica Forum, talks to us about the legacy of Desmond Tutu, who passed away this weekend. We talk about his important work fighting against apartheid, the impression he made on those he met and how he inspired others to fight for justice. We also talk about how his work has informed activism in Palestine, where there are parallels with the South African experience, and in the United States in the fight against segregation, classism, and sexism.Tina Desiree Berg, host of the podcast District 34 and reporter for Status Coup, joins us to talk about Joe Biden embracing “Let's Go Brandon” in a White House phone call over the weekend, the divisions among conservatives after Trump looked to take credit for the development of the COVID-19 vaccines under the project name Operation Warp Speed and coming out pro-booster, which has anti-vaxxers seeing red. We also talk about the controversy over the efficacy of boosters and whether we should reassess our approach to controlling the pandemic to mitigation or outright eradication of the virus, which seems more difficult every day, as well as plans by Israel to to double its settlements in the Golan Heights.

In this first episode of Black Work Talk's Season Two, co-hosts Steven Pitts and Bill Fletcher talk with Rob Baril.  Rob is the president of SEIU 1199NE, a union of health care workers in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Rob talked about how members of SEIU 1199NE have been fighting state officials in Connecticut for better working conditions during the pandemic.  He indicated this fight not only won concrete victories but also strengthened the union for future battles. In addition, the various union campaigns allowed the union to build additional power and wield this power around a several issues facing members in the community include policing issues. For more information on SEIU 1199NE, see http://www.seiu1199ne.org/ (SEIU 1199NE) Rob mentioned the Bargaining of the Common Good framework; here is the link to the network's website https://www.bargainingforthecommongood.org/ (Bargaining for the Common Good) Bill mentioned the St Louis Teamsters' Community Steward Program in the 60s.  Bob Bussel of the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon has written a fascinating book on the experiences of the Teamster local that developed this program (and others).  Here is an interview with Bob about his book: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/qa-with-fighting-for-total-person-unionism-author-bob-bussel/ (Interview with Bob Bussel, author of Fighting for Total Person Unionism)

In preparation for the Season Two of Black Work Talk, podcast host Steven Pitts got together with the four co-hosts of the new season: Bill Fletcher; Lauren Jacobs; Sheri Davis; and Toussaint Losier. In this trailer, they discussed the challenges facing the Left in 2022. Season Two launches Wednesday, November 17.

Join us for a special Halloween episode of #KHMToday! First we talk with Bryan Overmann who is LIVE from the beautiful Beaches Turks and Caicos. Get some creative last-minute costume ideas in our KHM @ Home segment. Special guest Bill Fletcher, Senior Director of Destination Marketing  for Holland America, talks about what makes the Holland America experience different.Team work makes the dream work! Hear directly from a group of travel advisors how they are working together to sell group travel. Learn about three must-see spooky Halloween destinations with Matt's Compass.Become an agent with KHM Travel Group today! Check out our website to learn more: www.KHMTravel.com  Send your comments/questions/suggestions to education@khmtravel.com  

Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Sarah Donaldson and her pioneering work in pediatric radiation oncology.   TRANSCRIPT SPEAKER 1: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Welcome to JCO'S Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insights into the world of cancer care. You can find all of these shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. Today my guest on this podcast is Dr. Sarah Donaldson. Dr. Donaldson has really been instrumental in much of the development of both, in my opinion, modern radiation oncology and especially related to pediatric radiation oncology. Dr. Donaldson was raised in Portland, Oregon. She received an initial undergraduate and nursing degree at the University of Oregon in Eugene and ultimately in Portland. After a few years working as a nurse with Dr. William Fletcher, who I hope we'll get a chance to talk about later, she elected to go to medical school and spend her first two years at Dartmouth and then finished with an MD from Harvard. She was planning to do a surgery residency at the Brigham Women's in Boston but then elected to do an internal medicine internship at the University of Washington and ultimately then a residency in radiation oncology at Stanford. After a residency and a few side trips along the way, she joined the faculty at Stanford and has remained there since. Dr. Donaldson has authored nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers, probably more than that by now. That was when I last looked at her CV a couple of weeks ago, and it seems like she brings them out every week. She has served as president of the American Board of Radiology, the Radiology Society of North America, and the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology, ASCO's sister organization, of course-- ASTRO. And she also served on the board of ASCO, the board of directors, from 1994 to 1997 and, in my opinion, perhaps as importantly, on the board of directors of the ASCO Foundation for over a decade. She has way too many honors for me to lay out here, but a few that caught my eye. Named after a distinguished scientist in the past, the Marie Curie award for the American Association of Women Radiologists, the Janeway Award from the American Radiation Society, and the Henry Kaplan Award for Teaching from Stanford. And she was the inaugural recipient of the Women Who Conquer Cancer Award from our own Foundation, the Conquer Cancer Foundation. Dr. Donaldson, welcome to our program. SARAH DONALDSON: Thanks so much, Dan. It's a privilege to be talking with you today. DANIEL HAYES: I hope I got all that right. It's pretty tough to cram the distinguished career you've had into about a minute. [LAUGHS] Anyway, I'm going to start out. So I've interviewed a lot of the luminaries and the people who really started our fields or even the subfield within our field, and you yourself had quite a journey. I know you started out as a nurse. Can you just give us some background about going to nursing school and then who and what influenced your decision to become a physician? SARAH DONALDSON: Yes, I did. I can, Dan, and it's an interesting story. Because when I grew up, girls that wanted to go on to college-- and it wasn't all girls didn't go to college, but I did. The three areas that one could do in that era were become a teacher or maybe a librarian or a nurse. And so I elected to become a nurse, and I went to nursing school. And I loved nursing school. I had a terrific time in nursing school, and along the line, I met the house officers and such and ultimately got to know a surgical oncologist. That was before surgical oncology was a field, but a young man from the Boston City Hospital training program, which was a very good surgical training program at the time, who was recruited to the University of Oregon to start a cancer program. His name was Bill Fletcher-- William S. Fletcher. And when I graduated from nursing school, Bill Fletcher was looking for a right arm assistant. He was looking for somebody to help him develop a cancer program. And he offered me a job, and the job was to work with him in the operating room, either scrubbing or circulating, to run his tumor board-- and that meant just scheduling it and taking notes and such-- and working with him in his tumor clinic. And in the tumor clinic, he was at that time beginning clinical trials, and Oregon was part of something that was called the Western Cancer Chemotherapy Group, which ultimately merged with SWOG. But at that time, his helper-- me-- filled out the forms, and we sent them to patients that were entered onto the study and got consents and measured lesions and that sort of thing. And I worked hand in hand with him. In addition to working with him in those clinical parameters, he gave me a little laboratory project, and so I worked with him in the lab and learned a little bit about small animal oncologic research, et cetera. And after a couple of years working with him, he suggested that I would be a better employee if I took some additional courses, and he suggested that maybe I should take physics because at that time he was doing isolation perfusion. I was running his pump oxygenator. He asked me what I would do if there was a pump failure. I didn't know. And he said, well, I think it would be good if you took physics. Well, the prerequisite to physics was organic. I hadn't had organic, and he was also working with radioisotopes in the lab. And he said, you could really be more helpful to me if you could work in the lab. That meant I had to take organic, and the prerequisite to organic was inorganic. To make a long story short, I took these series of classes in night school while I was working for Dr. Fletcher in the daytime. And then one night, I was working on my hamster project, and he said, I think you should go to medical school. I said, I can't go to medical school. And the long and the short of it was Dr. Fletcher thought I should go to medical school, and he made that possible for me. It's a very, very interesting story, but what it means is that I was mentored by somebody who was a visionary, and he could see a lot more than I could see. And he got me excited about medical school and everything that I knew about medical school is what he had taught me, so I of course wanted to be a cancer surgeon. And then after I went to medical school and I went to the same medical school he did, I just followed his advice. Every time I needed some guidance along the way, I asked Dr. Fletcher what I should do, and he told me what I should do, and I applied. And that's what I did. And so when I came time to choosing a specialty, I decided I would train in surgery, and I applied at the Brigham and was accepted into their surgical program. It was run by Francis Moore at the time. And that was a big deal because they hadn't had women in their surgical field, and I was very excited about all of that but feeling totally inadequate because I didn't think I knew enough medicine. And so I went to Dr. Moore and said, I think I'd be a better house officer if I knew some medicine. He says, OK, well, go take a medical internship, and we'll hold you a spot. So I went to the University of Washington and took general medicine, which was a very vibrant program, a really exciting program, and I just came alive in my internship. I loved everything about it. And then I decided I wanted to be an internist. So at this point, I was offered a position in Washington, and I had already accepted Dr. Moore in Boston. And I didn't know what to do, and I asked Dr. Fletcher what I should do. And he said, Sarah, the world of-- he called it radiotherapy at the time, but what we would call radiation oncology-- needs more surgically oriented physicians. I think you should go down and talk to my friends at Stanford. So I came down to Stanford. I met Henry Kaplan and Malcolm Bagshaw and the leaderships in the department, and including Saul Rosenberg, who was one of the people who interviewed me, and I left that day visiting at Stanford making a commitment that I would come to Stanford as a radiation oncologist. So I wanted to do everything, and I met some very inspiring people along the way, perhaps like you have in your own career. And it's for that reason that I am now excited about mentoring because it's a little bit of payback because somebody opened the door for me and made it possible for me to have a most gratifying professional career, and I would like to do that for as many people as I could. DANIEL HAYES: I love that story. And there were two things about it that came out. One is I normally don't like people who namedrop, but when you can namedrop the names you just dropped-- Bill Fletcher, who I consider really one of the early surgical oncologists, Henry Kaplan, Saul Rosenberg, Franny Moore. I was in Boston of 15 years, and he was a legend. He was not the chair anymore by any means. In fact, he passed away. But it was legendary. You should be doing these interviews instead of me. [LAUGHS] You've been there. SARAH DONALDSON: Well, it's all about where you are at the time you are and meeting the right people. I think so much of my gratifying career is just because I happened to be at the right place at the right time and met the right people. DANIEL HAYES: Well, the other thing I want to say is I always believed I don't trust people I interview who say they know exactly what they want to do. And the reason I say it that way is I have a young woman who's been a technician in my lab that just got into med school, and she sat with me and said, now, when I go there, should I tell them I know exactly what I want to do? Because she's interested in the oncology. Or should I go through my rotations and see what I like? And I said, I forbid you from going there knowing what you want to do. Go to your rotation. See what you like. You're going to run into somebody who just inspires you beyond words who-- I don't know-- maybe selling shoes. But whatever it is, become like her, and you'll be extraordinarily successful. So if there are young people listening to this, I think that your story, Dr. Donaldson, is a classic for that, the way you kicked around. And actually, you didn't tell us, but I'm going to have you tell us about your trip to Paris and that experience too and how that influenced you. SARAH DONALDSON: Oh, that was another wonderful opportunity. When I finished my training, it was 1972, and that's when America was in the Vietnam War. All of my classmates were being recruited to a mandatory draft and were having to go to Vietnam, and I felt like I too should be just like all of my best friends and I too should join the military and go to Vietnam. But that wasn't possible. Women couldn't do that. So I looked for things that I could do where I could do something useful, and I thought about joining the ship Hope and all sorts of fanciful things, but basically I was lost, and I didn't know what I wanted to do. And at that time, there wasn't a carve-out of pediatric oncology as a specialty. It hadn't been defined, but there were people that were doing pediatrics. And as a resident, I had had a little rotation at the M.D. Anderson, and when I was in medical school, I had spent a fair amount of time at the Boston Children's, so I kind of knew a little bit about those institutions. But the thing was at Stanford, I knew that I wanted to be at Stanford. But Stanford didn't have a cancer program either. And so again, I went to Henry Kaplan and Malcolm Bagshaw-- at that point, Kaplan was head of the department, and Malcolm was his associate director. But they changed positions about a year after that. So I trained under both of them, really, but I went to Dr. Kaplan and said, I'm interested in pediatrics. And I said that because we didn't have a program at Stanford and that was like a carve out that nobody had addressed yet. And he said, oh, well, if you want to study pediatric cancer, you have to go to the Institute Gustavo Roussy and train under Odile Schweisguth. And I said, no, I don't speak French. I can't do that. I'd like to go to London because I like the theater. And he said, no, no, no, no, no, that's not the way it is. If you want to be a pediatric doctor, you have to go learn pediatrics and learn to think like a pediatrician, and that means you have to go and train under Odile Schweisguth. She was at the Grand Dame of pediatric oncology. She took care of all the children in Western Europe. And so I went to Institute Gustavo Roussy to be a fellow in pediatric oncology, although I did spend some time on the radiotherapy unit as well. But that's where I learned pediatric cancer because I learned from Odile. And in French, there's a formal and an informal, and I never understood the formal because when you talk to kids, you talk in the familiar form. So I was just talking to and not [SPEAKING FRENCH]. I would just say, [SPEAKING FRENCH] and such. [INAUDIBLE] French. And that's how I learned French. More importantly, I learned the biology of cancer from Odile. It was largely observational. And I learned a lot of late effects of children who were cancer survivors. So when I came back to Stanford, at that time Mal Bagshaw was chair, and he said, well, why don't you work on starting a cancer program? We'd like to have a cancer program. So I worked with the pediatric cancer doctor at Stanford. His name was Dan Wilber, and he had just come from the M.D. Anderson. And the two of us started a cancer program at Stanford. And so I've been kind of doing that ever since, of doing pediatric cancer. So I would say my skill set came along just because the right people told me where to go at the right time. DANIEL HAYES: Were the pediatricians welcoming, or did they resent the fact that you'd never been a pediatrician? SARAH DONALDSON: Malcolm Bagshaw gave me the clue to that by saying the only way the pediatricians will accept you is by having them accept you is one of their own. So you have to learn to think like a pediatrician, and then they will accept you onto their team as one of theirs because pediatric doctors are very possessive about their patients, and pediatric cancer doctors are possessive about their patients. So it worked for me. But it worked because I had had this special training under Odile Schweisguth, who was a general pediatrician, and so I was accepted because I was at that point thinking like Odile thought because that's what she taught me how to do. So I always felt like I was accepted by the pediatric cancer doctors who then became the pediatric oncologists because that field didn't really open up for a couple of years later. DANIEL HAYES: For our listeners, Dr. Donaldson and I have not met before, and I certainly have never worked with her. But she's talking, she's glossed over that when you work with the French, you really have to speak French. When you work with the pediatricians, you really have to speak pediatrician. And you've managed to do both of those. I don't know anybody who's been that successful. I should take a sabbatical and come work with you. [LAUGHS] SARAH DONALDSON: Well, I'll tell you, Dan, there was one wonderful thing that happened because shortly after I was working at Stanford doing pediatrics, our dean wanted to recruit some more people and buff up our pediatric cancer unit. And he recruited Michael Link, who had just come out of his training at the Dana Farber. And so Michael and I started working together his first day as an assistant professor at Stanford, and pediatric oncology is a team sport. Pediatric radiation oncology is a team sport. And I had a wonderful teammate, Michael Link, with whom I worked very well, and we became very fast friends. And we did pediatric lymphoma and sarcoma, bone sarcoma, and soft tissue sarcoma, and all sorts of stuff. And I had a wonderful, wonderful colleague working with Michael Link. So one of the keys to my most gratifying part of my career at Stanford has been working with Michael Link and his associates. DANIEL HAYES: As an aside, by the way, Michael and I overlapped just a little bit at Harvard, but then he proceeded me as president of ASCO by two years, and we got to be pretty close friends during that period of time. And I echo your fondness for him. He's just an amazing human being, as far as I was concerned. And he's one of the-- he may be-- I'm trying to think, has there other pediatricians that have been president of ASCO? I'm not-- SARAH DONALDSON: No, he was the first. Yeah, he's the only one to date. DANIEL HAYES: Yeah. And he left a big stamp on the society in terms of-- we always had some pediatrics involved-- you, especially-- during the years, but as president, he was able to leave a big footprint of what we do. So he was terrific. I'd also like you to talk a little bit about the early days of the co-operative groups. You threw out that you were in the Western Group that became part of SWOG, and what were the hurdles and obstacles to getting all these folks to work together? And what do you see the pros and cons of the cooperative groups in the country? SARAH DONALDSON: I know the cooperative groups mainly through the lens of the pediatric cooperative groups. I mean, I can tell you about the adult ones, but I really know the pediatric ones. And at the beginning, there was one, and then there were two. And we worked competitively, and then ultimately the pediatric doctors learned early on that the children they took care of had rare tumors, and no one physician had a whole lot of experience with any cancer. For example, this tells the story well. When Hal Maurer was chairman of Pediatrics at Virginia, he had a child with rhabdomyosarcoma. And he called his friend Ruth Hein, who was at Michigan, and said, Ruth, I've got this child with rhabdomyosarcoma. Have you ever treated a child like this? And Ruth said, oh, I had one patient, but I think you should call Teresa because Teresa, I think, had a patient. And so Teresa Vietti was at Washington University, and so Hal Maurer and Teresa Vietti and Ruth Hein and a few other really, really pioneers started to throw their lot together and decided that the way they could answer a question about these rare tumors is by deciding what was the question of the day and working collaboratively. And then Hal Maurer became the first chair of what was then called the Innergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study, which has now been merged into the other pediatric groups. But that same process that worked for rhabdomyosarcoma was then employed for Wilms tumor, and then subsequently down the line, brain tumors and all the other solid tumors. And of course, St. Jude was doing this with their leukemia studies and Dan Finkel, and then Joe Simone did it with leukemia. They got everybody to join in on their team, decide together around the table by consensus what is the question that we want to have an answer for, and then just treat all the patients in a consecutive fashion, analyze those, and then take that step and go on and build to the next step. That's how the pediatricians have done it because their cancers are so rare that one person doesn't have very much experience. They have to throw their lot together and work collaboratively. So they don't work competitively. They work collaboratively. DANIEL HAYES: This is very similar to the stories I of course heard from Drs. Frei and Holland that they came ultimately to CALGB to be after a couple of mis-starts. But it's one of the things I worry about COVID. It's not the same Zooming with somebody or talking on the phone as it is sitting around dinner and just saying, maybe we could do this and make it work. So I'm hoping young people are listening to this and saying, OK, maybe we can start something new that a bunch of us work together and get things done. That's a really great story. You were early on and ended up taking both diagnostic and therapeutic radiology boards, correct? When they were combined? SARAH DONALDSON: No, no I didn't. Radiology was combined at that time, but Stanford was one of the few institutions that had a carve-out for radiation oncology without diagnostic training, and I wasn't in the first class. I was in the fourth or fifth class, so my formal training was only in what was called radiation therapy, now called radiation oncology. So it was one department, and I worked collaboratively with a diagnostic radiologist because I knew nothing about image interpretation-- nothing at all. So I'd see an X-ray. I didn't know how to interpret it, and I'd have to go and ask for some help. But they were like our best friends. But the diagnostic people could take the picture, but the therapists had access to the patients. So that made all the difference in the world because we really had access to the material, the clinical material or the blood or the bone marrow or the biopsy specimens or whatever it was, and allowed us to do studies. But to clarify, no, I was not. I do not have formal training in diagnostic radiology, although I have worked with them so closely now that I feel like they're all my brothers because you cannot do radiation oncology without collaborating closely with the imagers. DANIEL HAYES: And my first interview was with Sam Helman. This has been three or four years ago. And he was still lamenting the split because he thought it was to learn both-- and for the reasons you just said. If you don't know where it is to shoot your bean, you can't shoot your bean. That's not exactly what he said but something like that. On our side, they team hematology and oncology. Like you, I never got trained in hematology. I only trained in solid tumor oncology, which has not hurt me in any way. In fact, in many respects, I focus my efforts on things I seem to know about and let somebody else worry about blood clotting. Of all the things you're well known for-- and again, it was hard for me to get it all into a minute or two, but probably teaching and mentoring. And in this conversation, I see why. Tell me how you think that's evolved in your field, especially in radiation oncology, teaching and mentoring, and the importance of the things you've done-- and perhaps some of the people you have trained yourself and you're proud of. SARAH DONALDSON: Well, when I think of all the things that I love about my professional career, I love taking care of patients. And I've had very joyous experiences of watching pediatric cancer patients grow up and watching them in their process and treating them when they're toddlers and then getting invitations to graduations and wedding invitations and baby announcements and following through that. That's very, very gratifying. But the single most important and most gratifying part of what I do is the volumetric feedback and gratification from training residents because one patient is one patient, but one trainee then goes into academic medicine and that person has 30 or 300 or 3,000 trainees. And you see your impact is just explosive. And Stanford has had a training program in radiation oncology from the very, very beginning. It was one of the first programs that did train in radiation oncology, so a lot of talented people have come through Stanford. They need to have what Bill Fletcher did for me, which was open doors and help them with networking and giving them an opportunity and giving them some guidance and being their new best friend. When your trainees trust you like that, then you can really, really have a relationship, and you can really help them. And so I am very, very, very proud of our trainees that are now all over the place as cancer center directors or directors of departments or divisions that are doing what they're doing. You just meet the best of the best. That is the most gratifying part of-- maybe it's because that's what I'm doing now, but it's the most gratifying part of medicine that I've experienced. DANIEL HAYES: This is the third time I've said this on this call-- I hope there are young people listening, and I hope they're looking for a mentor and they can find someone as generous and trusting and helpful as you have been. SARAH DONALDSON: Dan, let me just say one little thing. DANIEL HAYES: Yeah. SARAH DONALDSON: It was extremely helpful to me-- and wonderful recognition for ASCO-- to provide the opportunity that I received the Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentoring Award. Because when I won that award, I was the inaugural-- but when I won that, all of a sudden people thought that I knew something about mentoring. I'm not certain I did know anything about mentoring, but I was asked to talk about it and asked to give advice, et cetera. And it gave me a carve out that was quite novel at the time, and now, of course, it's a mandated requirement in every training program, et cetera, but it wasn't then. And for me, it was just to return what Bill Fletcher did for me. The only way I can say is that it's a pay out, and it's so gratifying. It just makes you happy to get out of bed every morning and interact with the people you do interact with. DANIEL HAYES: He was pretty young when he began to mentor you. And I think having seen and been mentored and mentored other people, I always worry about a young person trying to mentor because you've got your own career to worry about, and it's hard not to be selfish when you're building a career in academics. He must have been a remarkable-- is he still active? Is he still around? He must have been a remarkable guy. SARAH DONALDSON: He was a remarkable guy, and no, he passed away. But that was true. And that is true because junior faculty are busy making their own professional career, and they don't have time. They're busy on their own path, and it's a hard path to go on. So most junior faculty don't really have very much time to do formal mentoring. But in Bill Fletcher's case, we worked hand in hand as sort of partners. And so I think, in some ways, I was helpful to him because I could do literature searches for him. I could write the first draft of his paper. I could write the first draft of his grant. I filled out the forms. I did a lot of things that were labor saving for him, but for me, what was he doing for me? He was teaching me to suture. He was teaching me how to resect normal [INAUDIBLE]. He was teaching me lymph node drainage from cancers. He was teaching me about drug metabolism, methotrexate, and phenylalanine mustard. And 5-FU was an experimental agent. So was vincristine-- those kinds of things. So I learned a lot from him just in the ordinary practice of taking care of the patients. DANIEL HAYES: By the way, two stories I read about you-- one is how you met Henry Kaplan, and the second is the first paper you wrote with him. Can you give us those two? And then I think we've got to sign off. SARAH DONALDSON: Well, let me tell you about the first paper I wrote with him because the other one is too funny. Everybody will laugh at me. The first paper I wrote with Henry Kaplan, I worked really, really hard on it. It had to do with bacterial infections in patients with Hodgkin's disease because we were doing splenectomies on everybody, and they were getting pneumococcal bacteremias and meningitis. And I was running the ward at that time. I was taking care of a lot of patients that were sick. So I was writing up this experience. And I wrote what I thought was the perfect paper because, see, Kaplan had a high bar, and you didn't want to disappoint him. So I wrote the paper that I thought was perfection. I had gone through a lot of drafts. And I gave it to him, and he returned it to me the next day. He read it that night. But I only looked at the first page because the first page looked like a blood bath. Everything he wrote, he wrote with a red pen. And there was red writing all over the first page. I couldn't see any white paper. It was all red comments. DANIEL HAYES: [LAUGHS] SARAH DONALDSON: And I went through-- I don't know-- 24 different drafts of that paper finally being published. And so one of the things I try to do with residents now is to teach them, you have to have a hypothesis. You have to make certain you have a database. You have to have a long term follow up. You have to understand statistics, and you have to write a paper knowing what you're doing. You don't just start writing. You do a section and a section and you build it with evidence. So I enjoy doing editing, and I think I can help some trainees focus their thinking in terms of writing a grant proposal or a manuscript that's worthwhile publishing. My introduction to Henry Kaplan-- there are many, many funny stories about them, but to end them all, I will have to say that he was very, very, very good to me. He provided a lot of opportunities and was a huge role model. He taught by scarification. We were all scared to death of him, but he was absolutely a wonderful, wonderful huggable person, if you felt like you could hug him. We didn't do that very often. We might have hugged Saul Rosenberg, but we didn't hug Henry Kaplan. But they were both helpful to me, especially in understanding lymphomas. DANIEL HAYES: For those of you listening who don't know who Henry Kaplan was, I think it's fair to say he was one of the first people to prove you could cure Hodgkin's disease with radiation. Do you agree? Is that a fair statement? SARAH DONALDSON: Yes, that's where his name came. But of course, what Kaplan did was he recruited Saul Rosenberg, and the two of those worked hand in hand, and they brought to Stanford what we call the Lymphoma Staging Conference, which was a combined modality conference where we talked together over each patient. And together, they wrote clinical trials that were institution-based clinical trials. So what Kaplan did was he did a lot of technical work with the linear accelerator, but that was just a tool. My way of thinking is his most important contribution was the importance of combined modality therapy and understanding what your colleagues can contribute and what you can contribute in doing it as a team. DANIEL HAYES: And I will encourage anyone who's listening to this to go back to the website and listen to my interview with Dr. Rosenberg who laid that out in spades. And the first few patients he treated, he had a chair outside his exam room. He would examine the patient, take them out, put them in the chair, start the IV himself, go mix the chemotherapy, hang it up, and then see the next patient in the room while the first patient was getting chemotherapy. It's a little different now. [LAUGHS] Anyway, thank you so much. By the way, I have a copy of Dr. Kaplan's book on Hodgkin's disease, which was the Bible when we were training. You can't see it because it's on my bookshelf behind my camera, but I still open it up quite a while, even for a breast cancer guy. It was a classic. I also want to say, it's very clear to me you're a nurse at heart. You've been a fabulous physician and researcher and mentor, but your love for people shines through, so congratulations. I think that's terrific. SARAH DONALDSON: Thank you so much. DANIEL HAYES: Thanks for taking your time to speak with me today. I'm sure people are going to be thrilled to listen to this, and thanks for all you've done to feel. It's just really remarkable-- and what you've done for ASCO and the Foundation, which is a big, big, payback. Thanks for everything. SARAH DONALDSON: Thank you. DANIEL HAYES: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology Podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology Podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. 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In this eighteenth episode of Black Work Talk, we end Season One as we began it with Bill Fletcher, long-time racial justice and labor activist.  We reviewed the events over the past 8 months: the insurrection; the determined GOP efforts to promote the Big Lie about the election and insist the adherence to the Big Lie would be a litmus test for GOP elected officials; and the effort of the Biden Administration to govern in this context of the recovery from COVID and the recession; the heightened awareness to fight structural racism; and the inside/outside strategy of the GOP to undermine democracy. You can read more of Bill's views about this moment at: https://www.organizingupgrade.com/the-white-republic-response-by-bill-fletcher-jr/ (https://www.organizingupgrade.com/the-white-republic-response-by-bill-fletcher-jr/)

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from June 19, 2021. We're talking about the meaning of Juneteenth with longtime labor and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher Jr. Also covering the debate around Critical Race Theory and *why there is no* technological fix for policing. Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag  

In the final half of this two-part panel, hosted by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and moderated by Mark and Nkechi Taifa, panelists dig deeper into the topics President Biden covered in his first formal address to Congress. LaTosha Brown opens with remarks on voter suppression and then participants provide additional analysis and reflection on topics including unemployment, international relations, reparations, and police violence. The panel closes with moving remarks by Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi. Moderated by: Mark Thompson and Nkechi Taifa, Esq., President, The Taifa Group, Author, Black Power Lawyer Panelists: Dr. E. Faye Williams, National President/CEO, National Congress of Black Women; LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder, Black Voter Matters; Bill Fletcher, Author, Labor and Social Justice Activist; Tamika Mallory, Co- Founder, Until Freedom; Dr. Greg Carr, Chairman, Africana Studies Department, Howard University; Pastor Michael McBride, Co-Founder, Black Church PAC; A’Dorian Murray-Thomas, School Board Member; Kyleesha Wingfield-Hill, Policy Advisor Office of the Mayor, Newark, NJ; Jamecia Gray, Manager, M4BL Electoral Justice Project; Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Author, Political Economist, Commentator Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com

In this annual panel (and two-part MIP series), hosted by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and moderated by Mark and Nkechi Taifa, these Black leaders reflect on President Biden’s first 100 days in office and assess what, if anything, has been accomplished that will advance the goals of the Black community-at-large. These leaders also consider what Black voters can and should do to hold the Biden administration accountable. Moderated by: Mark Thompson and Nkechi Taifa, Esq., President, The Taifa Group, Author, Black Power Lawyer Panelists: Dr. E. Faye Williams, National President/CEO, National Congress of Black Women; LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder, Black Voter Matters; Bill Fletcher, Author, Labor and Social Justice Activist; Tamika Mallory, Co- Founder, Until Freedom; Dr. Greg Carr, Chairman, Africana Studies Department, Howard University; Pastor Michael McBride, Co-Founder, Black Church PAC; A’Dorian Murray-Thomas, School Board Member; Kyleesha Wingfield-Hill, Policy Advisor Office of the Mayor, Newark, NJ; Jamecia Gray, Manager, M4BL Electoral Justice Project; Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Author, Political Economist, Commentator

In the spirit of next week's Saint Patrick's Day holiday we are exploring a little piece of Ireland located in the unexpecting beachside town of Ormond Beach, FL. Tucked in amongst a Winn-Dixie Grocery Store and a Taco Bell drive-thru sits Fletcher's Irish Pub. But don't let it's low-key presence fool you... This authentic Irish Pub is serving up homemade Irish favorites and traditional pub-fare. Join me as I sit down with restaurant owner, Bill Fletcher to discover exactly what it is that has turned this Irish Pub into a favorite hangout for the entire family. And trust me, coming from a guy who appreciates good food, friendly service, and a great atmosphere Fletcher's needs to be on your list of places to try! *THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR: Tori Lake Design! Learn more at the link provided at the end of today's Show Notes! *FLETCHER'S IRISH PUB Location: 393 W Granada Blvd. Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Website: http://fletchersirishpub.com/ FB: https://facebook.com/FletchersIrishPub/ *To get in touch with the podcast, contact the host, Kevin Lowe: Email: Kevin@TheLoweDownPodcast.com Tori Lake Design Specializing in the creation of a strong and cohesive presence for your brand through Design! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kevinlowe (Support the show) (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kevinlowe) Mentioned in this episode: null null

Bill Fletcher reports that almost all the serious deforestation going on today is in tropical rainforests, resulting in the lost habitat of species and increasing access to viruses from forest animals. The worst examples are in Asia, where palm oil plantations are replacing forests, and Brazil, where the main cause is cattle ranching.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer, activist, and trade unionist. He is the executive editor of The Global African Worker, a co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of 'Solitary Divided,' and the author of 'They’re Bankrupting Us–Twenty Other Myths about Unions.' Bill is one of the leading voices on the American Left and has been working with social movements and unions for the past four decades. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA​ Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele​ Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/​ Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?​... #PARCMedia​ is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer, activist, and trade unionist. He is the executive editor of The Global African Worker, a co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of 'Solitary Divided,' and the author of 'They’re Bankrupting Us–Twenty Other Myths about Unions.' Bill is one of the leading voices on the American Left and has been working with social movements and unions for the past four decades. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/ Follow Us on Instagram:

In the first segment of this week's Marc Steiner Show, we discuss how the left can make its voice heard in the incoming Biden administration with Bill Fletcher, a racial justice, labor, and international activist and author of numerous books, including "They're Bankrupting Us!", and organizer and activist Shana East, a member of the Coordinating Committee for the Illinois Poor People's Campaign and the founder of the grassroots campaign Illinois for Bernie. In the second segment, we talk to Rennie Davis, one of the members of the Chicago 7 and the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, about "The Trial of the Chicago 7," recently released on Netflix. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate.

Joblessness is sky-rocketing, unnecessary suffering on the rise, even as we see plainly that there’s an endless amount of real work to be done: repairing the infrastructure, creating livable housing, improving the parks and public spaces, caring for the children and the elders, cleaning the environment, growing our food, and more. The “jobs economy” enthrones profit as it disconnects work from basic human needs—it’s called capitalism. Our guest today is the preeminent labor organizer, trade unionist, racial and economic justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of “They’re Bank­rupt­ing Us” and Twenty Other Myths about Unions.

In the first segment of this week's Marc Steiner Show, we discuss how the left can make its voice heard in the incoming Biden administration with Bill Fletcher, a racial justice, labor, and international activist and author of numerous books, including "They're Bankrupting Us!", and organizer and activist Shana East, a member of the Coordinating Committee for the Illinois Poor People's Campaign and the founder of the grassroots campaign Illinois for Bernie.In the second segment, we talk to Rennie Davis, one of the members of the Chicago 7 and the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, about "The Trial of the Chicago 7," recently released on Netflix.Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate.

Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant, racial justice, labor and international activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. and AFL-CIO policy director Damon Silvers share their perspectives on the 2020 election from labor's point of view on last week's first-ever livestream broadcasts by the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @DamonSilvers @CLUWNational @BillFletcherJr Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

In this first episode of Black Work Talk, host Steven Pitts welcomes Bill Fletcher, long-time racial justice and labor activist. Bill talks about key takeaways from the 2020 Election and steps needed to build a progressive governing majority. Also, we discuss why it is important to build Black worker power and how to go about doing this.

Broadcast on November 5, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Bill Fletcher, Jr. explains how the 2020 election proves the existence of zombies (and reveals his simple 3-step Zombie Test). Callers weigh in on this and much much more. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @BillFletcherJr

Guest Bill Fletcher sits down with Steven and previews for us the big questions he will address in our first real episode, dropping November 11th, one week after the election. Bill tells us what he thinks Black workers and organizers should be paying attention to as election day approaches. This is an important glimpse into the most important challenges and opportunities facing all of us in this critical moment.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer, activist, and trade unionist. He is the executive editor of The Global African Worker, a co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of 'Solitary Divided,' and the author of 'They’re Bankrupting Us–Twenty Other Myths about Unions.' Bill is one of the leading voices on the American Left and has been working with social movements and unions for the past four decades. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

If Trump wins, he will be convinced that he has a mandate for authoritarianism and further irrationalism; trade unions must become organizations of the class, not just cheerleaders of the Democratic Party. Bill Fletcher joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

On this week's show, we've got a little bit of everything…. Organized labor in the United States has a very checkered history when it comes to issues of race and gender.” Racial justice, labor and international activist Bill Fletcher on The Heartland Labor Forum… “If it's in the air, it's in the air, so we all need to work together to make sure that we're all going home as good as we came in in the morning.” Shaun Trude, Safety and Health Project Coordinator for the Machinists, on how workers can protect themselves and how the union is fighting for even more protections amid COVID-19 on the Activate Live podcast… “In the rest of the industrialized world, you just have a right to your job.” Shaun Richman, author of "Tell The Bosses We're Coming,” on the My Labor Radio podcast… “I do not believe basic income or a guaranteed income is a replacement for the safety net, I believe it's an addition to it.” Labor Express Radio explores whether Universal Basic Income is a solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy or a distraction from real solutions… “The government of South Dakota is anti union, and South Dakota was one of the first Right to Work states.” Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO on the Working People podcast… “Workers shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a business model that works only when they are exploited.” On a special extra edition of The Gig podcast, updates on the legal battles by gig workers around the world… “The train master goes, ‘You're doing kind of a fast there, so what's going on? He goes, ‘I see your sons are running the engine here. Yeah, you might want to slow that down. That's totally a 10-mile-an-hour yard; you're doing already doing 40.” That's from a brand-new Labor Radio-Podcast Network member, the Tales from Two Blue Collar Workers podcast. Plus, Frederick Douglass  on "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" on Union City Radio. Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org. Social media guru: Harold Phillips

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer, activist, and trade unionist. He is the executive editor of The Global African Worker, a co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of 'Solitary Divided,' and the author of 'They’re Bankrupting Us–Twenty Other Myths about Unions.' Bill is one of the leading voices on the American Left and has been working with social movements and unions for the past four decades. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

As the frontline communities and others of good conscience grieve and revolt, the US's democratic trappings yield to its iron fist core. What are must be done to re-energize the long revolution against slavery and capitalism and for democracy and freedom? Long-time radical intellectual and pan-Africanist, Bill Fletcher and the Marxist activist-scholar August Nimtz join Johanna Fernandez and Joe Ramsey for a conversation about strategy for the left.

Activist, author and educator Bill Fletcher, Jr., discusses the fight for social justice and racial equality in America and the role athletes and others can play in the struggle.

On this show: 0:08 – Is organized labor poised to expel police unions? We talk with Bill Fletcher, Jr., long-time writer and social justice activist, with work in the trade union movement, electoral politics and international affairs. 1:08 – John Eligon is a national correspondent for the New York Times covering race. He has been in Minneapolis reporting on the uprising after the police killing of George Floyd. 1:34 – Vallejo police shot and killed another person on Tuesday. Brian Krans, independent journalist, contributor to Open Vallejo, joins us. Editor's note 9/2/2020: The name of the shooting victim is Sean Monterrosa. 1:45 – What does defunding the police look like in Oakland? James Burch is Policy Coordinator with the Anti-Police Terror Project. The post Vallejo police shoot and kill unarmed man; plus, John Eligon on the uprising for George Floyd in Minneapolis appeared first on KPFA.

Hello Capital Region! This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine on the Hudson Mohawk Radio Network. Up first, Jasmine Gripper, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, speaks on enlisting the support of the Gates Foundation to re-open schools in New York Then, the US is playing environmental catch-up on dealing with the dangers of AFFF. We speak with investigative journalist Sharon Lerner from The Intercept. Next, the slippery slope of the Oil Industry, Financial Systems, Green Energy and imagining the future disorder in everyday life with Author James Howard Kunstler. Then onto Episode three of Dear Mom, I’m Queer, with student and HMM queer host Nik Pepmeyer. Rightwing Populisim, Social Darwisim and the state of the labor movement during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond with Bill Fletcher, Executive Editor of Global Africanworker.

The Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent, Willie Terry, attended the LaborNotes Virtual conference on April 18, 2020. At this virtual Labornotes conference, worker leaders and activists discussed organizing strategies and the state of the labor movement during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. In this segment, he recorded brief remarks given by Bill Fletcher, Executive Editor of Globalafricanworker, delivered during a workshop on "Talking With Your Co-Workers About Trump." The workshop was facilitated by LaborNotes representative Bianca Cunningham.

On today's show: Racial justice, labor, and international activist Bill Fletcher, Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy Laura Carlsen, and TRNN political editor Don Rojas. Hosted by Kim Brown.

On today's show: Racial justice, labor, and international activist Bill Fletcher, Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy Laura Carlsen, and TRNN political editor Don Rojas. Hosted by Kim Brown.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. on how the labor movement can cope with the crisis and salvage itself. The post Belabored Podcast #196: How the Pandemic Will Change Labor, with Bill Fletcher, Jr. appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

In this episode, author and activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. and author Chavisa Woods discuss Bernie Sanders' frontrunner status in the Democratic primary, the campaign's efforts to build a diverse coalition in 2020, and whether or not those efforts have worked. Fletcher talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about how Sanders has altered his approach to reaching out to black voters; Woods compares the Sanders and Warren campaigns, reflects on their appeal to women, and analyzes how voters talk politics online. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Guests: Bill Fletcher, Jr. Chavisa Woods Selected readings for the episode: Bill Fletcher, Jr. Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice “They're Bankrupting Us!” And 20 Other Myths about Unions The Man Who Fell from the Sky Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (co-editor) To the Point (The Progressive Magazine, February 3, 2014) Chavisa Woods 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism The Albino Album: A Novel Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country The Memoir I Never Wanted to Write (LitHub, June 26, 2019) Others The Autobiography of Malcolm X Marx Engels Dream Defenders' endorsement of Bernie Sanders Hey, Obama boys: Back off already! (Rebecca Traister in Salon, April 14, 2008) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

Long time activist and critic Bill Fletcher takes on current labor issues.

US President Donald Trump was acquitted on both charges by the Republican-led Senate on Wednesday afternoon. "The final vote was 52-48 on abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress," the Learfield Wire Service reported. "Trump was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House for abuse of power and obstructing Congress in the investigation of the Ukraine scandal. Republicans rejected Democratic demands for witness testimony and documents that have been blocked by the White House. The House accused Trump of illegally withholding vital US military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democrats. Republicans called impeachment a partisan charade and argued that Trump's conduct was not impeachable." Politically, Tuesday was one raucous day. In his State of the Union address, "President Trump framed his third year in office as an unmistakable success and his fourth as more of the same," The New York Times reported Wednesday. Due to a coding glitch, we still don't know who won the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses. What are we to make of all of this?"The US trade deficit fell for the first time in six years in 2019 as the White House's trade war with China curbed the import bill, keeping the economy on a moderate growth path despite a slowdown in consumer spending and weak business investment," Reuters reported Wednesday. "The report from the Commerce Department on Wednesday also showed the Trump administration's 'America First' agenda decreased the flow of goods last year, with exports posting their first decline since 2016. President Donald Trump, who has dubbed himself 'the tariff man,' has pledged to shrink the deficit by shutting out more unfairly traded imports and renegotiating free trade agreements. Trump has argued that substantially cutting the trade deficit would boost annual economic growth to 3% on a sustainable basis. The economy has, however, failed to hit that mark, growing 2.3% in 2019, which was the slowest in three years, after expanding 2.9% in 2018." In Danny Haiphong's new piece for the Black Agenda Report, entitled "Why Attacking the Green Party to Assist the War Party Helps Donald Trump," he states, "We've heard it before. Independent political parties such as the Greens should refrain from organizing in 'swing states' during the general election to ensure that the Democratic Party vote isn't split in favor of the Republican Party. Ever since liberals blamed Ralph Nader for Al Gore's loss to George W. Bush, the Green Party has become a favorite scapegoat for the Democrats to explain away their electoral failures. This time around, the argument is being made by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher and Barbara Ehrenreich. In an open letter published in the LA Progressive, Chomsky and the rest warn Green Party activists and organizers not to play spoiler for the Democratic Party in the 2020 election." What's going on here?GUESTS:John Kiriakou — Co-host of Loud & Clear on Sputnik News Radio. Stephen Lendman — Editor of and contributor to the book "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." Dr. Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Danny Haiphong — Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News - From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."

This week Andrew and Sam Husseini discuss Vote Pact, a voter organizing strategy that offers a small-d democratic third option which both negates the spoiler accusation and is not a form of vote swapping. Read more @ Washington Babylon...

On today’s show, auto worker Dorothy Stevens on her pioneering career at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI.Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Dolly Parton’s hit song, Bill Fletcher on the wildcat strike by the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement, and the Cool Things from the Meany Archives team digs into the AFL’s cornerstone. 

On today’s show, auto worker Dorothy Stevens on her pioneering career at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI. Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Dolly Parton’s hit song, Bill Fletcher on the wildcat strike by the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement, and the Cool Things from the Meany Archives team digs into the AFL’s cornerstone. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock. The Labor History Today team includes Ben Blake, Chloe Danyo, Patrick Dixon, Leon Fink, Sherry Linkon, Joe McCartin, Jessica Pauszek and Alan Wierdak.

This is a preview of an episode available only to Patreon subscribers. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This is part 2 of a 2-part episode hosted by Ken, Mario, T., and special guest co-host Andray Domise. Part 2 and is available to $5/month Patreon subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-231-black-jr-32464337 The guest is Bill Fletcher, Jr., a Black Socialist who is an ex-Black Panther and a current labor activist. We discuss what socialism means to him and what it has to offer Black people today. We also ask him some listener questions, including one about his feelings on the ADOS movement and their push for reparations. Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

As is now the norm for our free episodes, this episode was available only to $5/month subscribers for the first 24 hours, and is now unlocked to the general public. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode hosted by Ken, Mario, T., and special guest co-host Andray Domise. Part 2 is available to $5/month Patreon subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-231-black-jr-32464337 The guest is Bill Fletcher, Jr., a Black Socialist who is an ex-Black Panther and a current labor activist. We discuss what socialism means to him and what it has to offer Black people today. We also ask him some listener questions, including one about his feelings on the ADOS movement and their push for reparations. Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

Our guest is Bill Fletcher, Director of Alaska Sales, Marketing and Planning for Holland America Line.  No one knows Alaska like Bill, who is a native, so let’s start by asking Bill,  “ Why go to Alaska with Holland America Line ?”   The answer, “we are Alaska.”  Holland America Line has been cruising Alaska for over 70 years and it shows when you are first in Alaska, knowing the history of the destination, having the right size ships, immersive Land+Sea Journey’s, with more time in the best places to show you the iconic and authentic Alaska.  With Holland America you will discover the ultimate Premier Denali experience.   Bill Fletcher will take us to his Alaska to help us explore Alaska’ wonders created by the pioneers from Holland America who started the iconic McKinley Explorer Rail experience and ownership of the McKinley Chalet Resort that has the amazing Denali Square.  Welcome to the Alaska Holland America has known and  cherished for more than 70 years.

Episode 43 continues exploration of race/community vision with Bill Fletcher discussing aims and means, movements lessons and experiences.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/revolutionZ)

Kentucky Governor’s mansion turns blue! Looks like Trump’s “Read the Transcripts” rally in Lexington on the eve of election day didn’t work out so well for the Republican incumbent. Before corporate Democrats join calls to “move to the center,” they would be wise to remember that the teacher strikes gave Democrats the Governor’s mansion, not some dishwater appeal to bipartisanship.  Virginia goes Democrat from House to the Governor’s office.  Gordon Sondland, Trump’s EU Ambassador, flips on his boss. The transcripts are scathing. And, Sondland wasn’t the only person that saw transcripts of their depositions released to the public. A giant “uh-oh” was heard coming from the general direction of the White House.  Ayanna Presley endorses Elizabeth Warren for president. Is this a “split” in the Squad or evidence that progressives are beginning to deepen their roots in the Democratic Party?  Nancy Pelosi goes to Bloomsberg News to say she’s not a fan of Medicare for All. That’s should be like a bat signal to all progressives that even if we win big in 2020, we’ll be in for a fight with the Democratic Party leadership. Another billionaire prepares to enter the presidential race as a Democratic hopeful. Yes, Michael Bloomberg will demonstrate to the world - just like Tom Steyer - how much money you can burn through to stroke your ego. Oh, yeah, and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, is jumping in the race to get his old Senate seat in Alabama. Looks like the biggest threat to his seat will be...Trump. Trump said jokingly he’d move to Alabama to run against Sessions himself. Bill Fletcher, Jr. takes to the pages of In These Times to once again make the case for social justice unionism. In the wake of militant labor victories, business unionism still dominates the leadership of many small and large unions Oh, yeah, and public impeachment hearings begin next Wednesday and House Democrats are looking to a vote on impeachment before Christmas!  Philadelphia votes a candidate from the Working Families Party to City Council. It’s the first time a candidate not from one of the major parties wins a seat on the council. Congrats to Kendra Brooks.  Over half of Pennsylvania’s population now live in counties that are controlled by Democrats.  Democrats swept every open seat in Delaware and Chester counties and then took control of Bucks, Lehigh and Monroe counties.  Will these victories lead to a PA Dem Trifecta in 2020? Scranton gets its first-ever woman mayor! Paige Cognetti, who ran as a Berniecrat independent, won the special election for mayor last night. Her campaign slogan, “Paige Against the Machine,” will now bring progressive politics to NEPA.  She cut her teeth writing a scathing report of corruption in Scranton’s school district for PA Auditor General Eugene Depasquale.  APSCUF leadership begins its PR push to persuade members to vote in favor of the new contract next week. Many questions remain as to what APSCUF leadership’s embrace of the new PASSHE Chancellor and “interest-based bargaining” will mean for the organizational gains achieved as part of the union’s 2016 strike.  Raging Chicken still awaiting the results of our Right to Know request about legionella bacteria found in multiple buildings across Kutztown University’s campus. Elon Musk makes the case that Space X’s new Starship could cost as little as $2 million per launch...way below the cost of even small rockets. Boeing trying to stay relevant in the race to get back to the moon. The Aerospace goliath presented NASA with a plan for a simplified “Human Lander System” (HLS) that will make use of the much delayed, still to be operational “Space Launch System.”  The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Army Lt. General Robert Ashley, painted a dark picture of near-future real space wars as Russia and China are rapidly developing weapons to be deployed in space. He made the remarks as part of his keynote speech at CyberSat 2019. Are we actually going to get a space hotel in the near future? The Gateway Foundation is making moves.  Free Will releases: Available on draft and in cans this Saturday at both Perkasie and Peddler's Village locations. We’ll also have all of this week’s releases at the Wrightstown Farmers Market Saturday morning. Plum Cinnamon Mash - Sour Ale brewed with plum purée, cinnamon, vanilla, and milk sugar. 7.5% ABV.  Sweet Cherry Apricot Mash - Sour Ale brewed with sweet cherry purée, apricot purée, vanilla, and milk sugar. 7.5% ABV A special Wednesday release, this past week for this year’s Special Cookie. Special Cookie is Free Will’s annual Imperial Spiced Brown Ale brewed with cardamom, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and vanilla. 12.5% ABV⁣. And if you’re lucky, you just might get your hands on a bottle of  Rum Barrel Aged Special Cookie from 2018.

We reproduce highlights from interviews in our second season of Laborwave. More episodes from Laborwave will be released in the late summer of 2019. Highlights include clips from our interviews with: Marianne Garneau on the Women's Strike. Garneau explains why it is necessary to have specific targets tied to specific demands within a larger strategic plan in order to be effective in any struggle for working class improvements, and how all of these features are absent from the IWS, so far. Shane Burley on Lessons from the Burgerville Workers Union. In addition to lesson from BVWU's victories we discussed the need to rethink labor organizing under late capitalism, where workers no longer self-identify with particular forms of industry and precarious labor is the norm. BVWU's successes in some ways points to the need to re-embrace as Shane says, "19th century unionism" in the 21st century. Hillary Lazar on Border Politics and Antifascism. Our interview focused on Hillary Lazar's essay, Connecting Our Struggles: Border Politics, Antifascism, and Lessons from the Trials of Ferrero, Sallito, and Graham published in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (n.30). The piece focuses on the lost history of anarchist editors and supporters of the periodical Man! who were swept up in an anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist political reaction during the early part of the 20th century in the United States. The piece uses this case study to explore connections and continuations of anti-immigrant policies of today and how such policies bolster the repression of political dissent. adrienne maree brown on Pleasure Activism. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. AK Thompson on Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt. Our clip focuses on his essay discussing leftist critiques of Avatar and how they failed to also use the limitations of the movie and its popularity as opportunities for radical organizing. Bill Fletcher, Jr. on Social Justice Unionism.Fletcher Jr discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States. Workers are becoming increasingly atomized in the US, and the state continues to rollback any investments into the reproductive labor that stitches society together. The moment, as Fletcher Jr states, that organized labor can seize for victory is almost over. We might not get another moment. What role do teachers strikes, worker-owned businesses, and housing cooperatives play in seizing this current moment? How do the rank and file push labor leadership to understand that we cannot continue doing "business as usual" despite not being knocked out by Janus right away?

RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours 38 MinutesHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: Episode 48 (11/27 - 12/03) Stan Stasiak def Pedro Morales to win WWWF Championship. DT addresses the ignorant treatment over the years by the internet towards 'The Man' and his title victory. Antonio Inoki def Bob Backlund to win WWF Championship; a title reign not recognized by WWE. Von Erichs def Freebirds and Ric Flair to win WCCW Six-Man Championship. Looking back at Starrcade 85: The Gathering Looking back at Starrcade 86: Night Of The Skywalkers Audio: Highlights of Road Warriors vs Midnight Express Scaffold Math including a rare LOD promo and comments by Jim Cornette on his injuries suffered. Audio: Shane Douglas wrestles on WWF Superstars (1990). SNME 8 airs on NBC. Looking back at Survivor Series 1991: The Gravest Challenge. Looking back at WWF Tuesday In Texas. Audio: Highlights of Undertaker def Hulk Hogan to win WWF Championship for first time - just to lose it back to the Hulkster a few days later - just to have the title then vacated until Royal Rumble. Audio: Ric Flair first WWF PPV match ends in a sudden clusterfu**. Audio: Memorable Ric Flair promo from Survivor Series. Audio: Rare clip only seen in NY: Vince McMahon video editorial on Phil Mushnick and NY Post over their coverage of the 1994 steroid trial. Looking back at ECW November To Remember 1997. Audio: Stephanie McMahon makes her first ever appearance on Monday Night Raw. TV Guide debuts 'Signature Covers'. Four custom TV guide covers featuring Austin, Goldberg, Hogan, and Undertaker. Audio: Test / Stephanie Raw Wedding nixed as Triple H marries a drugged unconscious Stephanie McMahon. Audio: Stephanie McMahon Smackdown promo on unwillingly 'marrying' Triple H. Audio: Scott Hall and Kevin Nash throw the WCW TV Title in the trash. WCW Nitro cage match main event featuring Sid/Goldberg vs Hall/Nash vs Bret Hart/Chris Benoit w/ Roddy Piper as guest referee. Looking back at UK exclusive WWF Rebellion PPV (2000). ECW holds their next to last ever PPV, Massacre On 34th Street. Memories of rare NY indy match involving Eddie Guerrero (vs Low Ki). World Wrestling All-Stars invades Belfast, Ireland. Memories of the last ever wrestling event at 'Madhouse of Extreme', the Elks Lodge (Queens NY). USA Pro Wrestling 'End Of An Era': The one and only event Don Tony and The Masked Maniac teamed up for. So how did it do? Looking back at Survivor Series 2005. Audio: TNA Vince Russo, Jeremy Borash and Voodoo Kin Mafia crash a WWE House Show. Looking back at one of the worst WWE PPV's of all time: WWE December To Dismember (2006). Audio: A tearful Paul Heyman cuts his last promo before resigning and leaving WWE (2006). Audio: Samoa Joe shoots on Scott Hall no showing TNA Turning Point PPV. Audio: Kevin Nash, and Samoa Joe speak on the 'shoot', backstage incident, and more. WWE signs 2008 Playboy Model Of The Year, Jillian Beyor. Audio: The Miz vs Jerry Lawler in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for WWE Championship. Sheamus wins 2010 King Of The Ring Tournament. Kaitlyn wins NXT Season Three. WWE releases MVP. Mick Foley (while employed by TNA) heavily criticizes TNA in memorable 2010 interview. John Morrison wrestles last WWE match before being released. Audio: Memorable Pipers Pit featuring Roddy Piper interviewing John Cena. Never forget: WWE debuts then immediately yanks new Sin Cara shirt due to a hilarious graphics faux pa (Now known as the Sin Cara Boner Shirt). WWE releases Thomas Latimer (aka Bram) after being charged with assaulting a Police Officer. Audio: The interview that led to numerous lawsuits. CM Punk interviewed on Art Of Wrestling Podcast (EP 226). Audio: Vince McMahon appears on Stone Cold Podcast (WWE Network) and apologizes to CM Punk.  New Day make their WWE debut. Audio: Sheamus forms the League Of Nations. WWE surveys WWE fans disgruntled over Raw product. Have they addressed anything since this 2015 Survey? Audio: Broken Matt surprise video appearance from ROH Final Battle (2016). WWE premieres 205 Live on WWE Network. RIP Hype Bros: Mojo Rawley turns on Zack Ryder. And so much more! 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This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we'll hear local Kansas City Missouri Middle School students discuss the history of child labor and what it means for students today. Then, […] The post Middle School Kids Talk Labor History and Bill Fletcher has a novel: The Man That Fell from the Sky appeared first on KKFI.

Image: Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, panel 45, 1941. Marx wrote in the Poverty of Philosophy, in Chapter II Part 1 The Method, Fourth Observation that: “Direct slavery is just as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry..." Moving this argument beyond Marx, Africana scholars/activists, thinkers, cultural workers such as, but not limited to, C. L. R. James; W. E. B. Du Bois, Cedric Robinson, Eric Williams, Amiri Baraka deepens the overture by Marx. According to J. Phillip Thompson in his article titled, Capitalism, Democracy, and Du Bois's Two Proletariats, it is suggested that W. E. B. Du Bois arguments in Marxism and the Negro Problem and Black Reconstruction supports the notion that capitalism created two proletariats. Writing in Marxism and the Negro Problem, Du Bois argues that: [the] black proletariat is not part of the white proletariat. . . while Negro labor in America suffers because of the fundamental inequities of the whole capitalist system, the lowest and most fatal degree of its suffering comes not from the capitalists but from fellow white laborers..." Moreover, capitalism (beginning with slavery) offered the white worker, a second/distinct proletariat role; more specifically a policing role in relation to the first proletariat. Du Bois writes in Black Reconstruction that: “The system of slavery demanded a special police force and such a force was made possible and unusually effective by the presence of the poor whites…” Adding more perspective, Eric Williams writing in Slavery and Capitalism, argued that capitalism was an economic modality that replaced the practice of chattel slavery once European elites accumulated the vast surplus capital to firmly fuel the industrial revolution. Adding more perspective, Eric Williams writing in Slavery and Capitalism, argued that capitalism was an economic modality that replaced the practice of chattel slavery once European elites accumulated the vast surplus capital to firmly fuel the industrial revolution. Contemplating the conditions within which African descendant folk where living during the 1960s, Sydney Wilhelm in, Who Needs the Negro? argues that the conditions which produced the rebellions were caught in the complex relationship of internal colonial conditions that were directly related to the nature of work, the historic role and dependency of black labor, and the shift in the needs of a more technologically advanced global economy. In the tradition of those mentioned above, today we ask: Is it important (or time) be critical of labor?...What is the use of labor in this moment, as we live in a world of algorithms and move toward an artificial intelligent future? What does "Labor" mean in a settler colonial society...? It is within this context that Africa World Now Project's own, Mwiza Munthali caught up with Bill Fletcher. Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, is a syndicated columnist and long-time labor activist. He has served as President of TransAfrica Forum and was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He is the author and co-author of a number of books which include: The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Relations, 1934-1941; They are Bankrupting US!; Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice; Claim No Easy Victories: The legacy of Amilcar Cabral. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people.

Two weeks ago more than 2,500 grassroots labor activists, “worker center” leaders, union members, union officers, and community activists gathered in Chicago for the semi-annual Labor Notes Conference. This week […] The post Highlights from Labor Notes and Bill Fletcher on How to Beat Right to Work appeared first on KKFI.

In this episode we discuss what it means for Bernie Sanders to run as a candidate in the Demoractic Party, and what it means to build an independent socialist workers party. We'll debate the challenges of building a independent party and pushing the Democratic to the left. This episode will also feature Ashely Smith of the International Socialsit Review. He has written a few articles on why the left should not support the Bernie run. You can read one of his articles here. This show is a continuation of other discussions we've had about the Bernie campaign. The Difference Between Socialists and Democrats  The Role of Socialists in the Democratic Party  An Examination of Bernie Sander's Presidential Platform  Democratic vs an Independent Socialist Party How Do We Transform to Real Scientific Socialism? Interview with Author and Activists, Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bill Fletcher, political activist and former president of TransAfrica forum, discusses his involvement in politics, and his experience as an activist in the labor movement as well as his role as president of TransAfrica forum in this rousing interview.

JANUARY 8, 2015 THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT As we enter the new year, one fight for the social justice community is the fight for voice, for the TRUTH in Missouri, on Staten Island, New York and right in Washington, DC where ties have been revealed between high-ranking Republicans and ULTRA RIGHT-WING White Supremacists. And of course there is that nonstop machine of lies and myth known as FOX NEWS. TODAY, WE HEAR VOICES that aren’t often heard, of activists on the ground, on various frontlines. GUESTS AND VOICES: Charlene Carruthers and ROSE AFRIYIE OF BLACK YOUTH PROJECT 100, author and activist Bill Fletcher, host of “Arise” on WPFW, will also join us. Headlines and more. https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/OTG-JAN-8-2015.mp3

This week on Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll go in-depth on Bill Fletcher's talk at the Kansas City Public Library about his new book “They're Bankrupting Us!” & 20 Other Myths […] The post “They’re Bankrupting Us!” & 20 Other Myths About Unions appeared first on KKFI.

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Between the Lines at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor; Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director.   Producer: Andrew Stelzer Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Associate Director: Khanh Pham Station Relations:  Daphne Young Web Editor: Jeff GiaQuinto Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker   For More Information: Between the Lines A weekly radio news magazine show http://btlonline.org/   The Black Commentator http://blackcommentator.com/ Mullica Hill, NJ   CUNY Graduate Center http://www.gc.cuny.edu/ New York, NY Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University http://bit.ly/butM2t Cambridge, MA   Left Forum 2010 http://leftforum.org/ New York, NY  Rutgers School of Law–Newark http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/ Newark, NJ Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:  Audio recordings of panel discussions recorded at the Left Forum, March 20, 2010 in NY. http://www.btlonline.org/2010/leftforum032010.html  Music: Mass Appeal by Gangstarr Lovesick by Gangstarr   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions [Labor Day Special Encore] appeared first on KPFA.

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Building Bridges at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor;Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director For More Information:   The Black Commentatorhttp://blackcommentator.com/Mullica Hill, NJ CUNY Graduate Centerhttp://www.gc.cuny.edu/New York, NY   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions appeared first on KPFA.

Mark Brenner, director of Labor Notes, talks about the state of the labor movement. Bill Fletcher, executive editor of The Black Commentator, talks about how the left needs to get serious – to give up symbolic politics for strategies of actually challenging power. And I give my usual comments on the economic news – the suburbanization of poverty, health expenditures in the U.S., and the January employment report. The post Behind the News – February 6, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.

With public support for labor unions at its lowest point in 70 years, Bill Moyers talks with experts Bill Fletcher, co-author of SOLIDARITY DIVIDED: THE CRISIS IN ORGANIZED LABOR AND A NEW PATH TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE and Michael Zweig, director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at SUNY Stony Brook, about the state of organized labor.

Digging deep into the roots and evolution of the American conservative movement, Sam Tanenhaus talks with Bill Moyers about why he believes that conservatism is dead and how it might yet come back to life. Tanenhaus is the editor of both THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and the Week in Review section of the TIMES. And, with public support for labor unions at its lowest point in 70 years, Bill Moyers talks with experts Bill Fletcher, co-author of SOlIDARITY DIVIDED: THE CRISIS IN ORGANIZED lABOR AND A NEW PATH TOWARD SOCIAl JUSTICE and Michael Zweig, director of the Center for the Study of Working Class life at SUNY Stony Brook, about the state of organized labor.

Changes in government and changes in economics mean changes for unions too - Fletcher speaks about his bookSolidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labour and a New Path to Social Justice.

Radical thinkers, military resisters and longtime movement activists reflect on the past 40 years of resistance movements in the US, where we are today, and what to do next. Featuring: Noam Chomsky, RESIST founder, leading radical thinker, Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mandy Carter, founder of Southerners on New Ground (SONG) and founding member of the National Black Justice Coalition; Camilo Mejia, war-resister and anti-waractivist; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist, co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, visiting Professor at Brooklyn College-CUNY. The post Making Contact – January 11, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.