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Watch here: https://youtu.be/XB2DE5fN0O4

Adrian Martinez (@adrianmb_cr) director, and Sam Goodman (@SamGRuta) senior communications, of larutadelclima.org join us to discuss climate justice ahead of COP26, including financial considerations for loss and damage as well as mitigation and prevention and the state of the environmental defender-protecting Escazu Agreement.

Also, we discuss Sleepy Joe and broken dems and Seattle carpenters striking, as covered by Jacobin here:

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/washington-carpenters-council-strike-union-leadership-rank-and-file-agc-peter-j-mcguire-group

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The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

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Matt and David speak with David Gerard (@DavidGerard), writer of Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money and Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain to discuss crypto, particularly technologies like blockchain and smart contracts that supposedly validate utopian claims of crypto advocates in a way the currencies themselves don't.

Also, what Biden's Title 42 sellout means and a Economic Update as unemployment benefits are cut to coerce labor.

Day of action:

https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/national-day-of-action-2021

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Writer Dharna Noor (@DharnaNoor) joins us to talk energy. First, climate-denying Entergy is failing New Orleans and then how Texas unions are approaching climate change.

Also, David and Matt SNAP on bitcoin as Bukele's promises fall through, and Israel bombs/tortures in Palestine after a daring prison escape.

Raw audio from this week's Griscom Stream. David breaks down how cynicism can be a huge problem for the Left, and takes questions from the chat. 

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Brian Mier (@BrianMTeleSUR) joins David and Matt to talk about what went down on September 7 in front of Brasil's Supreme Court. We also talk about Joe Manchin's price-fixing daughter and how a right wing judge is working with establishment Dems to try to defeat India Walton in Buffalo.

Bresch price fixing: 

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/07/joe-manchin-epipen-price-heather-bresch/

Bresch coverup at WVY

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/2008/05/04/The-story-of-a-cover-up/stories/200805040203


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The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

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Artist and trade unionist Stella Rooney (@Stellarossssa) joins David and Matt to discuss the UK labour movement, specifically what the victory of Sharon Graham, elected as the first female leader of Unite, the UK’s second largest trade union and a main donor to the Labour party, means.  Link to mask study: https://www.poverty-action.org/study/impact-mask-distribution-and-promotion-mask-uptake-and-covid-19-bangladesh

Also, Texas' horrific SB8 abortion law, anti-mask as faux populism, and a primer on the Battle of Blair mountain.

The Left Reckoning artwork was made by Grant Ertl

The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

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Tonight, David and Matt are joined by Chip Gibbons (@ChipGibbons89), a journalist specializing in civil liberties, whose pieces cited can be read below:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/julian-assange-extradition-civil-liberties-journalism-wikileaks-espionage-act

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/daniel-hale-drone-whistleblower-sentencing-trial

and listen to his Primary Sources podcast here: https://pca.st/ez8va9rl

David and Matt also discuss the fight for water breaks and better conditions and wages by agriculture, Nabisco, and Warrior Met workers.

Here is how you can donate to the UMWA: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/

Also, Biden must act on Line 3, Keystone, and DAPL.

The Left Reckoning artwork was made by Grant Ertl

The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

Raw audio from this week's Griscom stream, premiered live on Youtube & Twitch, talked about idealism, Sam Harris, and how the left can get out of the current crisis. 

Matt and David discuss the Afghanistan withdrawal and the military as an anti-democratic force.

Then, historian and professor Harvey J Kaye (@HarveyJKaye) joins us to rate Biden after 200 days and Mark Levin after an abrasive career.

The Left Reckoning artwork was made by Grant Ertl

The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

Raw audio from this week's Griscom Stream. Talked about why Fox News is worried that workers get unemployment and the anti-democracy movement takes aim at the public.