(2011/03/06) Wisconsin state workers protest Part 2
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🗓️ 7 March 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #463
Wisconsin state workers protest Part 2
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Act 1: Meet two Wis state workers - The Progressive
Song 1: Gimme Sympathy - Metric
Act 2: Assault on American labor - Young Turks
Song 2: Stand by me - Playing For Change
Act 3: Koch bros connection to Gov Walker - Green News Report
Song 3: Monk Theme - Jeff Beal
Act 4: Crisis in the Dairyland: For Richer and Poorer - Daily Show
Song 4: Spare change - Matt and Kim
Act 5: The logic of unions - Common Sense
Song 5: Hey there, Delilah - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 6: Shep Smith 100% right on Fox News - Young Turks
Song 6: Killing for love - José González
Act 7: Labor rights are human rights - The Progressive
Song 7: White blank page - Mumford and Sons
Act 8: Walker gets pranked - Jimmy Dore Show
Song 8: Deep in the sweetwater - Rasputina
Act 9: Some assembly required - Rachel Maddow
Voicemails:
Keep the laser-focused shows - Adam from Albuquerque
Do both kinds of show - Mary from St. Louis
Prefer topic to topic mix - Susan from Iowa
Mix of shows is best - Rev Mike from Michigan
Fox News is scary stupid - Dolly(?) from Florida
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments on the options of the style of the show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Gov. Walker Pranked - TYT Breaks It Down - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by the members and donors of the show for details of visit |
| 0:06.1 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday. |
| 0:12.3 | From the Progressive, the Young Turks, the Green News report from Brad Blog, Commonsense |
| 0:16.5 | with Dan Carlin, The Jimmy Dore Show, and The Rachel Maddo Show with a bonus video clip |
| 0:20.3 | for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Young Turks. |
| 0:30.1 | The corporate media love to play up the misconception that Wisconsin state workers have it easy and |
| 0:34.8 | therefore deserve to get their benefits cut and their unions crushed. |
| 0:38.3 | Well meet two state workers and listen to their stories and then please reconsider that |
| 0:42.8 | misconception if you would. |
| 0:44.6 | The tons of Joshua works as a resident care technician at the Southern Wisconsin |
| 0:48.5 | Center in Union Grove for people with mental disabilities. |
| 0:51.9 | I help take care of their daily needs, says Latanza, who has worked there for 10 years now |
| 0:56.7 | and makes $15 an hour. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm already living paycheck to paycheck, she tells me, and if the cuts go through, I'd |
| 1:03.3 | be basically working to get to work. |
| 1:06.0 | Brian Cappings, 32, is a corrections officer at the WAPON Correctional Institution. |
| 1:10.8 | He's worked there for 10 years now. |
| 1:12.6 | His starting pay was $11 an hour. |
| 1:15.4 | Governor Walker's already threatened to call out the National Guard to do the work of |
| 1:19.0 | correctional officers, which Brian thinks is a really bad idea since they're not trained |
| 1:23.7 | for this duty. |
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