We continue Our Policy Watch Report on the Connecticut budget crisis and will feature an analysis of the impact of corporate welfare. We will also talk about the ACLU sabotaging police reform, and the Seattle Seahawks’ decision not to sign Colin Kapernick.

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Guest contributor John Hollis, a retired state employee and former union steward, is the guest for a Policy Watch analysis of the deal. We will also talk with John about Malloy’s neoliberal attack on the public sector, the largest employer of Black people and women.

Our Political Roundup segment will include an update on the fatal police shooting of Jayson Negron in Bridgeport. We will also discuss right-wing extremist Joe Visconti launching a campaign for governor in CT, President Donald Trump’s war budget. We also discuss free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick being blackballed by National Football League teams, because of his national anthem protest

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Podcast guests include social worker Janet Frazao-Conaci and retired state employee John Hollis join us for a Policy Watch analysis of the Connecticut state budget crisis. While Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton turned a $6 billion budget deficit into a $1 billion surplus by taxing the rich, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy and the Democratic Party controlled General… Read More

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Trumps foreign policy Hartford stadium issue and Colin Kaepernick talk

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Join us as we pay tribute to Martin Luther King, who was assassinated April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. We’ll talk about the Dr. King that the corporate media has erased: a revolutionary who organized against racial economic disparity and the Vietnam War , launching his Poor People’s Campaign. Connecticut State Representative Josh Elliott will join us to discuss Dr. King and Gov. Dan Malloy’s state budget proposal, which slashes funding for human services while cutting taxes for the rich. We will also play excerpts of Dr. King talking about economic justice.

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St. Louis activist Toni Taylor is the guest for this podcast of Community Party Radio. We discuss the new Mike Brown video, the community response in Ferguson, and the importance of focusing on the reason why former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was acquitted: a rigged grand jury process.

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Discussion about Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy’s state budget proposal, which attacks the working class, the poor and human services providers. Malloy’s budget includes closing Blue Hills Substance Abuse Services in Hartford’s North End, an area plagued by opioid addiction. We will also replay our 2016 interview with Hartford Civilian Police Review Board member Rick Torres. Mayor Luke Bronin introduced a resolution to replace Torres and three other Board members, in retaliation for asking inconvenient questions regarding the Emilio Diaz brutality case. Torres and the Board asked for the names of the 19 Hartford Police officers who refused to cooperate with the investigation of former HPD Sgt. Sean Spell, who was caught on video kicking Diaz in the head following a June 4 car chase. Enhanced video shows that four other HPD officers stomped Diaz, but Spell is the only officer who has been criminally charged.

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We interview US Army veteran Earnest Walker a north Texas area community activist, businessman and organizer. He was thrust into international news when he was refused service at a Chili's restaurant in Cedar Hill, TX. After the incident Walker started the FEED A MILLION VETERANS organization to feed veterans around the US.

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Podcast topics include: Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy’s neoliberal budget, which will be released February 8, Malloy and Mayor Luke Bronin trying to bring the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League to Hartford, the Community Party’s Safe Work Environment Act workers rights legislation, and new video evidence in the brutality case of former Hartford Police Sgt. Sean Spell. Missouri activist Toni Taylor talks about her proposed legislation, which would address police behavior toward individuals who surrender to them. We’ll also discuss the Trump presidency, including the backdoor Muslim ban

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