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Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from Counter-Spin Democracy Now at the Tom Hartman program,

Economic Update with Richard Wolfe, The Young Turks and Activism from Public Citizen and Exposed

TPP. Say you discover that your cell phone company has been taking money from you for roaming

charges for calls you made from your home, where that your employer has been denying you payment

for extra work you're required to do, or your mother's nursing home gives her too much medication

and she dies. What power do you as an individual have compared to a big corporation except to take

them to court? But then what if it turns out you can't? Why? Because you signed away your right to a

jury trial in the fine print contract you had to agree to to get that cell phone service,

that job, that nursing home care. This is the alarming reality exposed in a recent New York time

series reported by Jessica Silver Greenberg, Michael Corkrey and Robert Gableof. Here to bring us

more on the issue and what we can do about it is Joanne Doroshow, founder and executive director of

the Center for Justice and Democracy and co-founder of Americans for Insurance Reform. She's also

adjunct professor at New York Law School. Welcome back to counter spin, Joanne Doroshow.

Great to be here. Well, there are some distinctions to be made here. There's a difference between

having arbitration as an option and forced arbitration for one and then what the times is talking about

is the increased use of contracts that both push consumers and employees to arbitration to settle

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