Equal Time Radio

Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Director Liz Medina about building class struggle and social justice unionism. Sarah Birgé about Mobilizing to Defend Reproductive Rights. Dan LaBotz about whether the U.S. is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War?

Tanya Vyhovsky proposes a Working Class Legislative Agenda for Vermonters. DSA member Carl Grey Martin talks about Stoping the Enbridge Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline. Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Vice-President Dwight Brown about Their Successful Convention and the Right to Self-Defense against Fascist and Racist Attacks.

Jeremy Brecher on Making “Build Back Better” Better: Aligning Climate, Jobs, and Justice; Nancy Braus about the climate crisis, and the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline; and Vanessa Gray about Vermont’s Climate Action Plan and the Just Transition Community Conversations.

Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen talks about building union power, working class unity, and a Union led Green New Deal.

Union Organizing at Amazon with Peter Olney, former organizing director for the West Coast Longshoreman Union (ILWU).

Wafic Faour and David Finkel about Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine & U.S. Complicity; plus Ashley Smith on Biden’s Program for Rehabilitating U.S. Capitalism.

Andrew Tripp, an experienced lead union organizer, discusses reasons behind the union loss at Bessemer Amazon in the context of the anti-worker, anti-human rights regime of U.S. labor law. David Van Deusen and Liz Medina discuss May Day in Montpelier, the PRO Act, card check, and the working class history of May Day.

Traven interviews Meagan Day about the updated edition to her book "Bigger than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism", co-authored by Micah Uetricht. Meagan is a staff writer for Jacobin Magazine.

Brian Pine about the lack of Affordable Housing in Vermont. Dan Fingas about building grassroots power in Vermont to win a jobs guarantee, universal healthcare, affordable housing, racial justice, and bold climate action; and Mike Goldfield, author of The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s about the potential significance of Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing.

Dan LaBotz about Why Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing Could Be So Important for All Working People. Bruce Levine, author of Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, about the role of Vermonter Thaddeus Stevens in the dynamic trajectory of the second American revolution—an opportunity to remake the country as a true multiracial democracy. How the Civil War evolved, and why its aftermath was both so promising and so disappointing.