(2013/11/25) Laboring in badly-designed machines (Labor Movement)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 November 2013
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Summary
Edition #777
Laboring in badly-designed machines
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is the American Dream a Reality? - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-02-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: You are dreaming - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 4: Act 2: Would You Like A Living Wage With That? | McDonald's Employee Confronts CEO - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-11-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Welcome to the machine - Pink Floyd
Ch. 6: Act 3: A race to the bottom - Real Time With Bill Maher - Air Date: 10-25-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Rabbit Heart (Raise it up) - Florence + The Machine
Ch. 8: Act 4: Why are we subsidizing McDonald's? - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 10-29-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Do you believe in magic? - The Lovin' Spoonful
Ch. 10: Act 5: Time to do Away with Tipping? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 08-16-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M.
Ch. 12: Act 6: Kathi Weeks: The American Work Ethic and Hours for What We Will - GRITtv - Air Date: 8-20-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Work - Bob Marley
Ch. 14: Act 7: Small Business Saturday - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: Unlike Walmart, Trader Joe's Profitable with Living Wage - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 08-24-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Revolution (Human need over profit) - Tha Truth
Ch. 18: Act 9: Is it Vampire Capitalism, or Something Else? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 10-17-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: You're a vampire - One-Eyed Doll
Ch. 20: Act 10: Walmart Holding Food Drive for the Poor: Their Own Underpaid Employees - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-19-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Soapboxing on teaching - Kit from Austen, TX
Ch. 22: Improving schools is also an environmental issue - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 23: A response regarding first responders and those they serve - Brian from Pennsylvania
Ch. 24: Is the idea of our standing in the world overrated? - Sarah from Pittsburgh
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on programming notes, why Katie was gone and why you should check out ladypartsjustice.com
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://www.smallbusinesssaturday.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SmallBusinessSaturday
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/walmart-black-friday-death_n_4312210.html h/t Lee Camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3R4tnYI55I h/t Dennis Trainor, Jr.
http://www.examiner.com/review/book-review-local-dollars-local-sense-by-michael-shuman
http://www.amiba.net/resources/multiplier-effect
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/KatieGoodmansUnFItUp
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, activism director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from the David Pakman |
| 0:12.5 | show, the Young Turks, real-time with Bill Maher and Jim Hightower, the Tom Hartman program |
| 0:16.6 | and great TV with Laura Flaunders, activism from the unfucked-up project and the majority |
| 0:21.4 | report. |
| 0:22.4 | I want to talk briefly about the American Dream. |
| 0:32.2 | I saw the documentary Park Avenue the other day. |
| 0:35.5 | If you have Netflix, it's on Netflix, you can find it hopefully some other places as well. |
| 0:40.0 | The documentary looks at Park Avenue in Manhattan and then at Park Avenue, as you go north |
| 0:46.8 | in Manhattan, over the water in the Bronx, Park Avenue in the Bronx and just the drastic |
| 0:52.3 | difference between the Manhattan Park Avenue, where some of the richest hedge fund |
| 0:57.9 | guys and Koch brothers and others have apartments and Park Avenue in the Bronx in an area |
| 1:03.6 | where there is overwhelming poverty, overwhelming unemployment, 40 and 20 percent respectively |
| 1:09.1 | at certain periods in the last few years. |
| 1:11.6 | And I really started thinking about whether the American Dream is even a reasonable thing |
| 1:15.2 | to be teaching children as they grow up to believe in. |
| 1:19.3 | And what I mean by that is I don't mean teaching children that they should try to be whatever |
| 1:24.8 | they want to be when they grow up, that there are opportunities for them to learn, to travel, |
| 1:31.1 | to work, to explore and to become kind of self-realized, well-rounded human beings. |
| 1:37.0 | That is a good thing to teach children. |
| 1:39.0 | But what I'm talking about is the idea that truly speaking, everybody has an equal shot |
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