This Episode we we talk about Project 2025 and it's impact on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for Indiana Residents. 

Welcome to Let's Talk Indiana a Limited Edition Podcast done by three Indiana residents who take all aspects of Project 2025 and peel back the layers to dig deep into what this will do to Indiana. We also talk about Project 2025's cousins the Republican Study Committee Budgets and Agenda 47. 

The three co-hosts are Indiana's Own Dana Black from the Turn Left Podcast and Video series. She joins co-host Mary Noone and her Company Campaign Strategy. The third co-host is Union Labor Advocate Mark Gevaart from the My Labor Radio Podcast in NE Indiana. This well rounded trio bring you details and perspectives you will not hear or find in other media outlets. We want to help you better understand Project 2025 and how it will impact all of us in Indiana. 

This Episode we talk about Project 2025 and it's impact on Education in Indiana. 

Welcome to Let's Talk Indiana a Limited Edition Podcast done by three Indiana residents who take all aspects of Project 2025 and peel back the layers to dig deep into what this will do to Indiana. We also talk about it's cousins, Agenda 47 and the Republican Study Committiee Fiscal Budgets.

The three co-hosts are Indiana's Own Dana Black from the Turn Left Podcast and Video series. She joins co-host Mary Noone and her company Campaign Strategy. The third co-host is Union labor advocate Mark Gevaart from the My Labor Radio Podcast in NE Indiana. This well rounded trio bring you details and perspectives you will not find in other media outlets. We are here to help you understand Project 2025 and how it will impact all of us in Indiana. 

This episode is part two of my discussion with Michael Zweig who is the emeritus professor of economics and founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY StoneyBrook in NY. We spoke with Michael in early February of 2024 about his most recent book Class, Race, And Gender Challenging The Injuries And Divisions of Capitalisim.

That first interview is linked here Michael Zweig My Labor Radio 2 4 2024.

In April of 2024 I met up with Michael Zweig in Chicago IL at the Labor Notes Conference 2024. On Saturday 4/20/24 we had a chance to sit down and talk further about his book and gain additional insight into the work he put into the pages of this amazingly informational book.

As always we provide links to our guests works for purchase from a Union Shop. Specifically Powell's Books in Portland OR.

The members who will process your order are represented by ILWU Local 5 in Portland. 

Michael Zweig's Printed Works are listed and linked here. You can also find his most recent work at his publishers website PM Press.

2023 - Class, Race, & Gender Challenging The Injuries And Divisions of Capitalisim 

2011 - Working Class Majority America's Best Kept Secret (There are 2 editions of this book)

2004 - What's Class Got To Do With It? American Society in The 21st Century

1991 - Religon And Economic Justice

Special THANK YOU to the CWA -The Communications Workers Of America for their support of My Labor Radio. When you need more information about organizing in your workplace, check into what the CWA has to offer and talk directly to an organizer in the CWA.org/Organize

Special THANK YOU to UAW Local 2209 for their support of My Labor Radio. They are an over 4,000 member Union in NE Indiana serving multiple industries and communities in the Tri-State area. 

Thanks for listening you can find us on all the socials by following our Link Tree here. 

Indiana House District 5 is in north west IN. Heidi Beidinger is the candidate who will bring change to the District at the State House. We talked with Dr. Beidinger on Monday July 8th to review her plans for work to be done on behalf of constituents in HD-5. This conversation includes her positions on important topics and we also talk about her 2022 run for this same seat. She has doubled down this election cycle and is in it to win it. Heidi wants to remind voters she is in this race for all the right reasons. We appreciate her tenacity as she stays consisteant to her values and putting the people of HD-5 in the forefront of her campaign. 

Visit Heidi on all the links we have here;

Her website is HeidiForIndiana

On Twitter she is @HeidiForIndiana

On Facebook she is Heidi For Indiana

on Instagram she is @HeidiForIndiana

On TikTok she is @HeidiForIndiana

Thanks for listening. You can find us at our LinkTree My Labor Radio

Special thanks to the CWA The Communications Workers of America for their support of My Labor Radio.

Special thanks to UAW Local2209 for their support of My Labor Radio

This episode we want you to meet Kyle Thele. (His last name is pronounced Tee-Lee) He is running for Indiana House District 83 in NE Indiana. You can hear the interview to learn more. You do need to know that we have an alternative to the hatefull attitude that the so called Christian who occupies the seat now holds. This is a great chance for change and Kyle does not hold back in this interview. Also you'll learn why he wants to run and the fact is clear he wants to hear from you. The Constituant. Visit his website read more and learn why this election year, a time for change is happening at IN House District 83.

Kyle is a Union member of WGAEast  The Writers Guild of America East.org - Kyle is working for VOX Media. 

On Twitter he is @Kyle4IN83 

On Instagram he is @KyleINStateRep

On Facebook he is Kyle Thele For Indiana State Rep

As always you can find out more at KyleForStateRep.com

Special Thank You to the CWA Union. The Communications Workers of America. You have been thinking about organizing a Union in your workplace and the best step forward is by clicking this link here CWA-Union/Organizing to contact an organizer and make that change in your workplace. 

Special thanks to UAW 2209 for their support of My Labor Radio they are an over 4,000 member amalgamated union serving their membership and communities at large in NE Indiana. 

Thanks for listening - You know where to find us...

This episode we learn about EWOC - Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee - To learn more we talk with volunteer and activist Nate Wendt. Nate is the Media Lead for EWOC. We talk about the process, how to contact and start working with them. We also talk about his origins and what the support and wins in organizing is doing for EWOC and so many Unions in America. ,

Learn more about EWOC by visiting this website  WorkerOrganizing.org 

Learn more about UE Union - The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

To get your hands on the Haymarket Books printed booklet Nate spoke of Unite And Win follow the link to learn more about this valuable tool 

Learn more about DSA Labor by visiting that italicized link

The EWOC You Tube channel is linked here

On Instagram they are @OrganizeWorkers

On TikTok they are @OrganizeWorkers

On Twitter they are @OrganizeWorkers

On BlueSkySocial they are @OrganizeWorkers.BSKY.Social

You can find Nate on Twitter @NateWendt

Find out more about Starbucks Workers United SBWU

Special thank you for the support we receive from The Communications Workers of America find them at CWA-Unions.org When you are ready to talk with an Organizer through the CWA just follow this link CWA-Union/Organizing  

Special thank you also goes to UAW2209.org for their support of My Labor Radio. Find out more about this 4,000 member local in NE Indiana. A UAW local supporting their members and serving the Tri-State area and their communities.

Thanks for listening; You can find us at My Labor Radio.org and on the Socials we are;

@mgevaart on Twitter

@My_Labor_Radio on Instagram

@MyLaborRadio on Facebook

@MyLaborRadio on TikTok

This show and more are posted on Libsyn getting us to all platforms. Just search MyLaborRadio 

Meet Les Leopold. We talk about his latest book Wall Streets War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do About It. He was on earlier in the year but it was a short we picked up from his time with the Labor Radio Podcast Network.  This time we spend a solid 45 plus minutes talking about his amazing perspective on this important Working Families issue; Mass Layoffs!  Les also has some great dispatches and writings on his Substack Page You can also find him on some links below and he has several previously published books, we link them here as well.. We talk about Mike Lux and his writing "Factory Towns" which can be found at this link from the website Amarican Family Voices.org   

On SubStack find him as Les Leopold 

On Twitter Les can be found as @Les_Leopold  

The Book is published by Chelsea Green Publishing in The UK   

The links to his book, and others he has published are from  Powell"s Books in OR. It is a Union Shop and the employees handeling your book order are represented by ILUW Local 5 in Portland OR. Listed here are the Les Leopold books they carry for sale.

Wall Streets War On Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed are Destroying The Working Class and What To Do About It.

Runaway Inequality: An Activists Guide to Economic Justice

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor The Life and Times of Tony Mazzochi

How To Make A Million Dollars An Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away With Siphoning Off America's Wealth

The Looting Of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity-And What We Can Do About It.

Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocost Memoir from Inside the Third Reich 

Special thank you to our supporters at CWA-Unions.org The Communications Workers of America. You want information about organizing your workplace? Follow this link to check in with a CWA Organizer. 

Special thank you to UAW Local 2209 for their support of My Labor Radio. You can find out more about the work they do in the community and for their over 4,000 members in NE Indiana. Check out the link at UAWLocal2209.org 

Thanks for listening, you can find us in all the socials listed below or visit MyLaborRadio.org

On Twitter we are @mgevaart

On Instagram we are @My_Labor_Radio

On Facebook we are @MyLaborRadio

On TikTok we are @MyLaborRadio

Meet author, organizer and activist Ken Grossinger His first book Art Works talks about the melding of Art and Movements. This is an easy and quick read and brings together the ideas of joining Arts and Culture. It is all around us and growing as we win with the power of Art joining Movements in this world. Learn more about the Art Works publisher and Fearless Reading by visiting their website The New Press. We talk for about 40 minutes and cover several campaigns and the genesis for writing this book.

Follow the link here to immerse yourself in the Spotify Art Works music. This playlist is a companion to the book.

On Twitter you can find Ken and his book @ArtWorksBook 

The book is detailed at his website ArtWorksBook.com 

As always we have a link to  Powell's Books in OR. You can purchase the book from a Union Shop, represented by ILWU Local 5. The link is here Art Works Book at Powell's Books 

Special thanks to CWA-Union.org for their support of My Labor Radio You have questions about organizing your workplace? contact an organizer at the Communications Workers of America to find out the steps you can take to Be Wise and Organize. 

Special thanks to the membership of UAW Local 2209.org for their support of My Labor Radio

Thanks for listening, You can find us at My Labor Radio.org  - All our shows are in a directory you can easily roll through, @MyLaborRadio 

On Twitter we are @mgevaart

On Facebook we are @MyLaborRadio

On Insta we are @My_Labor_Radio

On TikTok we are @MyLaborRadio

This episode we talk with APFA Government Affairs team member Allie Malis We talk about the importance of passenger support in their quest to get a contract done. Five years without a raise. It is outrageous the fight they are in. It is our fight too. They need our help and support. Learn more by visiting the APFA.org website and follow them on all the socials too.  Allie and I talk for about forty minutes and you will learn more about why they do NOT have a simple operation and can just withold their labor like so many can. They fall under the Railway Labor Act which is an interesting thing to learn about too. It only benefits the company in all cases, ask the Railrod Union members. 

Here is a link to the the Julie Hedrick video on Twitter Allie and I speak about.

Here is a link to the APFA TikTok we made while in Chicago on 4/18/24 prior to Labor Notes.

Here is a link to the AFA-CWA who also represent Flight Attendants.

Thanks to CWA for their support of My Labor Radio - You want to organize a Union in your workplace? talk to a CWA Organizer to find out more. Thanks to The Communications Workers of America.

Thanks also to UAW2209 for the support we recieve Go to UAW 2209.org to learn more about the 4,000 members working in NE Indiana. 

Thanks for listening, find us at My Labor Radio.org or on all the socials search @MyLaborRadio

Interviews from Chicago in April. Labor Notes 2024. On Saturday of the weekend we spoke with UAW Region 9 director Daniel Vicente about his election and what he had experianced so far in Labor Notes 2024. Director Vicente has a page dedicated to his story here Dan Vicente Dir. UAW Region 9 - Dan is a member of the UAW reform caucus UAWD - Uniting All Workers for Democracy. His details as a member of Members United are here. We also have interviews from rank and file participants from Labor Notes 2024. We have some links below that get you to some great information and other Podcasts on the Network. 

The Labor Radio Podcast Network can be found at LaborRadioNetwork.org

To find out more about UAW Region 9 visit Region9.uaw.org

 Follow Lynn Fields, her Podcast is Resolved Labor Pocdcast on Spotify   

Find Harold Phillips and his show Labor Week on Spotify at this link

Follow the link here to find out more about Labor Notes. A group of like minded Union members that has been advocating for all workers since 1979. 

Special Thank You to UAW 2209 for their support of this programing. Special Thank You to the Communications Workers of America they are at CWA_Union.org Find out how they can help you organize you workplace CWA-Union/Organize 

Thanks for listening we can be found at My Labor Radio.org

On Instagram we are @My_Labor_Radio

In Facebook we are My Labor Radio

On TikTok we are MyLaborRadio

On Twitter we are @mgevaart