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We managed to a really dope guest for our episode this week, Curtis Hierro of The Communication Workers of America joins us to talk about the CWA's recent victory over AT&T. CWA members struck in 9 states across the south and demonstrated with militant labor actions can accomplish. We also discuss the future of the labor movement in the south and how political tendencies among union members is changing through political education and class consciousness.

Follow the organizations Curtis mentioned and get involved!

@Conmijente

@Dreamdefenders

@Curtishierro

P.S. Cosby will be out of town for the next few weeks but we will be back soon!

 

 

Hey y’all. This week we took a deep dive into our old haunted wheelhouse — the Florida Legislature. Jason Garcia of the Orlando Sentinel (@jason_garcia) spat hot fire last week with a pair of articles on corporate giveaways and tax policy malpractice you can find HERE and HERE.

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Happy August y'all,

This week we sat down with Thomas Kennedy an organizer and activist with the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Miami DSA.

Check out what Thomas is up to now HERE: https://twitter.com/tomaskenn

Follow The Florida Immigrant Coalition on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FLImmigrant

Check out the Miami DSA's podcast collaboration Red Tide Radio: https://youtu.be/NMcjgQl4VXo

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This week we discuss the efforts to close the concentration camps across the country, with sound from Homestead Florida courtesy of friend of the show, Tomas Kennedy.

We also cover the take down of one particularly corrupt cop in our own backyard, Jackson County. And lastly, The Trump Org's attempt to hire strippers for a fundraiser for disadvantaged kids in South Florida.

We sat down with Chef Rebecca Kelly-Manders to discuss her culinary program that has reduced the recidivism rate significantly among participants, and the mobile kitchen she has designed could become a model for criminal justice reform across the state and nation-wide.

You can find out more about the projects Chef Kelly-Manders is working on at: http://refireculinary.org/

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This week we discuss the upcoming 2020 Democratic Presidential Debates in Miami, and how the 2016 Debate between Hilary and Bernie may offer insight as to the strategies the Establishment wing of the party will deploy against the Sanders 2020 Campaign this time around.

We also cover Nikki Fried's "gaff" at the gas pumps, and The Trump Administrations ICE Raids in Miami.

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This week we've got Former Leon County Supervisor of Elections, Ion Sancho with us. Ion sat down to talk to us about the history of voter suppression here in Florida, new ways the republicans in the State Legislature are trying to knee-cap Amendment 4, and the historic debacle that was the 2000 Presidential Election.

Hey y’all, we sat down with Tomas Kennedy of the Florida Immigrant Coalition to discuss Senate Bill 168 and some of the work he and other activists are doing to stop Republicans from implementing anti-immigrant legislation here in the State. You can follow Tomas and the Florida Immigrant Coalition on Twitter @tomaskenn and @flimmigrant and you can follow SB168 as it moves through the Senate at m.flsenate.gov/Bill/168/2019

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Hey y’all, we sat down with Tomas Kennedy of the Florida Immigrant Coalition to discuss Senate Bill 168 and some of the work he and other activists are doing to stop Republicans from implementing anti-immigrant legislation here in the State.

You can follow Tomas and the Florida Immigrant Coalition on Twitter @tomaskenn and @flimmigrant and you can follow SB168 as it moves through the Senate at http://m.flsenate.gov/Bill/168/2019

Shoutout to Slug Father for our theme music!

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