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“These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying jobs in the regions where these [nuclear] plants are located.”

Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council 

Jim Key is the President of the United Steel Workers (USW) Atomic Energy Workers Council (AEWC) and former Vice President At Large of USW Local 8-550, which represents the highly skilled, well trained workers at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Paducah Federal Enclave Site Reservation in Kentucky.

The United Steelworkers Atomic Energy Workers Council consists of presidents and vice presidents from all United Steel Workers local unions that have contracts with DOE across the nation.

Learn more at: https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/atomic.

During this conversation we discuss:

• The United Steelworkers Atomic Energy Workers Council;

About The Political Economy Project 

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EMLab brand 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.

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“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”

Michael Gene Sullivan is an actor, writer, director, blogger, and teacher committed to developing theater of social and economic justice, of political self-determination, and, of course, musical comedy. Michael is also a Collective Member and Resident Director of the Tony and OBIE award-winning, always revolutionary, and never, ever silent San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has written, acted in, and/or directed over thirty plays.

​Playwright's Foundation, and was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Djerassi Arts Center, and in 2022 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

​About the San Francisco Mime Troupe

The mission of the San Francisco Mime Troupe is to create and produce theater that presents a working-class analysis of the events that shape our society, that exposes social and economic injustice, that demands revolutionary change on behalf of working people, and to present this analysis before the broadest possible audience with artistry and humor.

The collective of the San Francisco Mime Troupe exists not only to create this activist art but also to embody our ideals of combating the fragmentation of the working class: we are a democratically run, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-cultural, gender-balanced theater of social justice that by its very existence sustains a vision of community governance of, by, and for the people.

Learn More about the San Francisco Mime Troupe

• Website - www.sfmt.org

Learn more about Michael’s work at:

• Website - www.michaelgenesullivan.com 

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EMLab 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, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

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“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!”

Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the movie Glory, when the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment gather for prayer on the eve of the tragic Battle of Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863 during the U.S. Civil War.  

Transcript

Tomorrow we have to meet the judgment day.

Heavenly father, we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy.

We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!

Amongst those that are fighting against our oppression.

We want 'em to know heavenly father that we died for freedom.

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Artist Works is an EMLab brand that explores the labor, concepts, and inspiration behind the artists illuminating and shaping our world. 

EMLab 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, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

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“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.”

Princy Mthombeni 

Princy Mthombeni is an award winning communications specialist, nuclear energy advocate, entrepreneur, philanthropist and thought leader. 

As a former Board Member of Women in Nuclear South Africa, an African Young Generation in Nuclear Communication Head, Editor-In-Chief of Nuclear Energy Workers Newsletter and a Stand Up For Nuclear South Africa Coordinator, she focuses on addressing the socio-economic issues of the African continent through promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

Princy also founded a Nuclear Energy Youtube Series named “Africa4Nuclear,” which Princy hosts covering the socio-economic benefits and technical aspects of nuclear science and technology for education and information.

Follower Princy’s work 

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/princymthombeni

Follow Africa 4 Nuclear

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/africa4n 

Watch Princy at COP26 on Decouple Media - Is African Poverty a Climate Solution? Western Hypocrisy Exposed on the Floor of COP26 - ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbvxwSy3O8 

About The Political Economy Project 

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EMLab brand 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.

Follow our work on Substack at: https://politicaleconomyproject.substack.com/. 

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“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.”

Energy is Everything. It sustains all life.

Without securing reliable and affordable energy, a nation will perish.

A political economy oriented to promote universal prosperity and defend the general welfare for a more perfect union, must orient policy goals to produce surplus food, water and energy.

Dear friends, the question of our values is at hand. Show me your budget and how you allocate resources, and we’ll see what your values are in practice.

In the face of a global shortage of energy, China’s leadership understands this, as reflected in their policies increasing energy generation, transmission, and distribution.

Nuclear energy is a key pillar for China’s national security.

China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years. China is currently building 19 reactors, with 43 reactors in the permitting stage, and an additional 166 reactors in planning.

The combined capacity of these 228 reactors will produce over 245 gigawatts, which is more than the entire electricity generation capacity of Germany and is close to the 289 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity the rest of the world is planning to build.

Although nuclear power is the future of Chinese energy, coal remains the most important energy source for China today.

In 2020, China built over three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined – the equivalent of more than one large coal plant per week.

So what are we doing in the United States to secure reliable and affordable clean energy?

Over the past two generations, the US has canceled over 163 nuclear power plants.

The United States nuclear electricity generation capacity peaked in 2012 around 102 gigawatts when there were 104 operating nuclear reactors.

This once leading nuclear energy nation has prematurely shut down 12 nuclear power generators in the past decade alone, before their licenses expired, including the early shutdown of Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant in May 2022 that had a license to operate until 2031.

Ironically, on the same day as this 811-megawatt nuclear plant was shut down, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation issued a report saying the United States electric grid doesn’t have enough generation capacity and that blackouts are almost certain to occur across the country this summer.

Why are our policies increasing scarcity and austerity for our people? Where are the leaders to be found?

Our current trajectory guarantees failure for us while condemning future generations to energy insecurity and immiseration. Our collective security, prosperity, and peace is more threatened than ever before.

It is time to produce more energy, America.

Sources

• Another nuclear plant closes: Get ready for electricity shortages

B-roll

• CGTN (link) 

About The Political Economy Project 

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EMLab brand 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.

Follow our work on Substack at: www.politicaleconomyproject.substack.com. 

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"We will shape and mold this country or it will not be shaped and molded at all any more."

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace, dear Nina. 

Transcript: 

An artist's duty as far as I'm concerned is to reflect the times. 

I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians. 

As far as I'm concerned it's their choice. 

But I choose to reflect the times and situations in which I find myself. 

That to me is my duty. 

And at this crucial time in our lives when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved. 

Young people, black and white, know this. 

We will shape and mold this country or it will not be shaped and molded at all any more. 

So I don't think you have a choice.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

About EMLab’s Artist Works

Artist Works is an EMLab brand that explores the labor, concepts, and inspiration behind the artists illuminating and shaping our world. 

EMLab 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, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

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“They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?”

Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment

You can watch the full interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSY79RqsAeY 

The Power Hungry podcast spotlights energy, power, innovation, and politics. Author and journalist Robert Bryce talks with top thinkers, writers, and influencers — as well as regular citizens. Subscribe at https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/ and follow Robert’s work https://twitter.com/pwrhungry.

Isaac Orr is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, where he writes about environmental issues, mining, and electricity. In his second appearance on the podcast (his first was on August 10, 2021), Orr talks about the importance of the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA ruling, why utilities are keeping their coal plants open this summer, how renewables are undermining the integrity of the electric grid, and the looming shortfalls of generation capacity in the Midwest. You can follow Issac’s work at: https://twitter.com/TheFrackingGuy.

Transcript

Energy 101 definition of energy is energy is the ability to do work.

And when you make energy more difficult to get or make it more expensive, you're making it more difficult to do work or more expensive to do work, whether that's heating your house, plowing a field, growing your food.

So when we enact all these energy policies that intentionally make energy more scarce or more expensive, it ripples through every aspect of the economy.

In some ways you can write it off as rational ignorance.

They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?

It's the milk comes from the store philosophy, right?

I think it boils down to some sort of afluenza.

I really like the concept of thinking about energy, food, production, mining in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

You've got your basic needs, which is food, water, then you want security and safety and then you've got your self actualization triangle at the top.

We've had the bottom rungs of our needs satisfied for so long that we can only focus on the self-actualization tip of the triangle.

And we've been undermining the base of the pyramid, in order to attain these tertiary goals.

And that's exactly what's happening with the grid.

For energy, you need a secure supply. Russia showed us that that needs to be the base of the pyramid.

Then you need reliability, then you need affordability.

And then at the very tip, you can have carbon free.

You need to find a way to satisfy security, reliability, affordability, and being carbon free. That's gotta be the fourth and final consideration on your energy hierarchy of needs, because if you try to invert that pyramid like Germany did, we're seeing that it has really disastrous consequences. 

“In spite of all of the horrible things that are happening in the world today, I think that on the labor front, both in the United States and Mexico, these are really exciting times.”

Robin Alexander, Retired UE Director of International Affairs

This new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the Mexican Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT), a story that is a testimony to the power of rank-and-file solidarity.

Download the book at: https://www.internationalsolidarityinaction.org/

About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is an Empathy Media Lab production and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. All links: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

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“I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.”

Addie L. Wyatt (March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement, and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Learn more about Addie here.

This speech was given at Harvard’s Divinity School on November 2, 2002. Watch the full speech here. 

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Learn more about Sojourner here. 

Excerpt of Speech Text:

Look at my arms.

I have plowed.

I have planted and I have gathered into barn and no man could head me.

And ain't I a woman?

I could work as much and eat as much as any man, when I get it.

And bear the lash as well, and ain't I a woman?

I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.

And when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me.

And ain't I a woman?

I want to dedicate that famous, powerful poem from that great woman preacher Sojourner Truth.

God knows she has inspired my little life and have given me much courage in the time of distress, in the time, often, of great pain.

When I expect so much to happen, but I have to say to myself, ain't I a woman?

About Belief Street Faith and Labor

Belief Street Faith and Labor is an EMLab brand 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.

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For too long, my country, the wealthiest nation, failed to carry out its full responsibilities to its sister republics.

Those who possess wealth and power must accept their own responsibilities.

They must lead the fight for those basic reforms, which alone can preserve the fabric of their societies.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

President John F. Kennedy at the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress - March 13, 1962

Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros

Full speech: https://EmpathyMediaLab.podbean.com/e/jfk-alliance-for-progress-first-anniversary-speech-march-13-1962/