Equal Time Radio

Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen discusses the need and program for a broad social justice, class struggle labor movement; Janet McLaughlin addresses the Challenges of Childcare During the Pandemic and Before; and Nick Brana talks about Launching a New Mass People’s Party.

Adam Norton about the Vermont State Budget and Revenue Forecast, Jerold Kinney about Building a Stronger, More Democratic State Employees Union, and Omar Fernandez and Nick Brana about Launching the new Movement for a People’s Party.

We hear from Darren Allen about a Roadmap to Safe Reopening of Schools, and Kiah Morris about a Plan to Transform Vermont Policing, and Kate Logan and Daphna Thier about Meeting the Current Childcare Crisis.

We talk with Isaac Kreisman of the Vermont School Workers Action Committee, a group of VT NEA rank and file members, organizing to insist that the government go much further to provide the resources to ensure safe and just school reopenings, and provide for our communities and working families through transformational Common Good demands; and Eric Blanc, DSA member and author of "Billionaires Want to Reopen Schools Amid a Pandemic. They Might Unleash a Teacher Strike Wave."

Janet McLaughlin, of Let's Grow Kids, discusses the challenges of childcare during the pandemic. DSA members Sherry Baron, an epidemiologist and public health researcher, and Dan La Botz, a co-editor of New Politics magazine, reflect on the Pandemic, Depression, and Authoritarianism.