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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2013/08/18) The fast food worker walkout (Labor)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2013

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Edition #747

The fast food worker walkout

Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith

Ch. 2: Act 1: Privileged Tech PR Flack: We Make, Unions Take! - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-10-13

Ch. 3: Song 1: There Is Power In a Union - Billy Bragg

Ch. 4: Act 2: Life Of A Minimum Wage Worker - Alternet Radio Hour - Air Date 7-27-13

Ch. 5: Song 2: Union Song (Live in Madison, WI) - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman

Ch. 6: Act 3: Fast Food Worker's Walkout - Citizen Radio - Air Date 7-30-13

Ch. 7: Song 3: Oh, the boss is coming - Arkells

Ch. 8: Act 4: Minimum Wage Does not Produce Unemployment - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-30-13

Ch. 9: Song 4: All you fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco

Ch. 10: Act 5: How Much Would it Cost to Double Fast Food Salaries? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-31-13

Ch. 11: Song 5: Homeless tonight - Robin Roberts

Ch. 12: Act 6: Corporate greed is making us sick - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 8-13-13

Ch. 13: Song 6: Lovesick - Anya Marina

Ch. 14: Act 7: The Effects of the Attack on Unions - Melissa Harris-Perry - Air Date: 08-01-13

Final comments on the union awesomeness on the TV show Titanic: Blood and Steel

Closing Music:

Here We Are - Patrick Park

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com.

0:07.9

Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday from the majority report,

0:12.3

the alternate radio hour, citizen radio, the Tom Hartman program, the young Turks, Jim

0:16.4

Hightower, and Melissa Harris Perry.

0:18.2

And a note that, yes, in the last episode, I called out Melissa Harris Perry for something

0:22.5

terrible, she said, and yes, I'm promoting something she's saying in this episode.

0:27.0

And if you think that's a paradox, you're doing it wrong?

0:30.0

This is a wonderful story of a tech writer and tech entrepreneur who is speaking power

0:36.1

to power, and in fact, speaking power and saving power for power.

0:40.9

Sarah Lacey is apparently a tech columnist, but it seems to me that the difference between

0:49.1

the libertarians you usually call this program, and one who is sort of an internet entrepreneur,

0:54.9

is that the internet entrepreneur is generally a little bit more intelligent and also a little

1:01.3

bit less politically inclined.

1:05.2

And so they're really just shooting off the hip.

1:07.2

They're basically like a smarter Adam Corolla is what it comes down to.

1:13.0

And Sarah Lacey seems to fit that mold quite well.

1:18.2

She runs the internet publicity site, I guess tech publicity site, Pando Daily.

1:26.4

It's like a gossip thing, right?

1:27.7

She used to be a writer at TechCrunch.

1:29.1

She also has a PR consulting, as well as Pando Daily.

1:34.8

And apparently, she is very, very upset, or was very upset with the Bart strike.

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