The Monthly Labor Report speaks with Hae-Lin Choi, co-founder/co-executive director of Hands Off NYC (https://www.handsoffnyc.com), in the lead up to Labor Day 2026.
Hae-Lin talks about Labor Days past and how this one will set a marker for a new worker-immigrant alliance in preparation to fight for a fair election on November 3. 
Hosted by Michael Zweig and Richard Hill

Interview with Joshua Rovner, director of Youth Justice with The Sentencing Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Josh Rovner, a senior research analyst with The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, where he focuses on youthful offenders and works to keep juveniles out of the adult court system. Here he talks about several major recent court rulings regarding juvenile sentences, and what Colt Gray can expect as he begins his lifetime behind bars.

Interview with Autumn Waddell, an activist with the Elbit Out of South Carolina coalition, conducted by Scott Harris.

Autumn Waddell discusses the recent arrests of three protesters picketing outside the Elbit Systems of America’s factory in Ladson, South Carolina. She also talks about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, violations of free speech surrounding dissenting views on the U.S. relationship with Israel, and the international campaign against Elbit Systems, which in Britain, under the name Palestine Action, has been designated as a proscribed “terrorist” organization and banned under the U.K.’s Terrorism Act.

Interview with Gov. Ned Lamont and state Rep. Josh Elliott, conducted by Scott Harris.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and state Rep. Josh Elliott discuss their positions on voters’ top issues, including skyrocketing health care costs, taxing the rich, the high cost of electricity and the urgent need to build affordable housing.

Interview with Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin staff writer and the author of "Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden," conducted by Scott Harris. 

Branko Marcetic assesses recent Democratic party primary victories by progressive candidates and members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the millions of dollars spent by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and centrist Democrats to defeat them, and efforts to unify the party before the November midterm election.

Interview with Jennifer Loewenstein, former associate director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted by Scott Harris.

Jennifer Loewenstein discusses her views on the current status of Trump’s war on Iran, how the conflict has spread dangerously throughout the region, and the future of the Strait of Hormuz where Iran and Oman are engaged in talks to manage the disputed waterway.

Interview with Stanley Heller, administrator of the New Haven, CT -based group Promoting Enduring Peace and host of the TV newsmagazine “The Struggle," conducted by Scott Harris.

Stanley Heller talks about the global campaign to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the prominent Palestinian pediatrician and director of North Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since Dec. 27, 2024. Reports indicate Dr Safiya is suffering deteriorating health without adequate medical attention, where eyewitnesses say his condition is life threatening, unless he’s freed very soon.

Interview with J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of Minnesota Reformer, conducted by Scott Harris.

J. Patrick Coolican addresses both the worry and complacency among many Democrats regarding Trump’s clear plan to intervene and manipulate the outcome of the November midterm election. He discusses his recent article, “The Blueprint for Fighting Trump’s Attempt to Sabotage the Election, Drawn up in Minnesota,” about Doran Schrantz ‘s 14-page Democratic party internal memo titled, “Act Free to Be Free: A State and Local Pro-Democracy Framework.”

Interview with Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize–winning former New York Times foreign correspondent, conducted by Scott Harris.

Chris Hedges discusses his recent commentary titled, “Trump’s Phantom Enemies,” which asserts the Trump regime is linking Cuba with domestic, communist subversion and is laying the groundwork for McCarthyite blacklisting and criminalizing of all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.

Hedges was bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for 15 years and author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, and A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.

Interview with William LeoGrande, professor of government, dean emeritus of the School of Public Affairs at American University Washington, D.C., conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Professor LeoGrande about the history of U.S.–Cuba relations and the dire conditions faced by the Cuban people during this Trump regime engineered humanitarian crisis.