3364 - Keeping Juneteenth Radical; The Law Will Not Save Workers w/ Dr. Robert Greene, Jaz Brisack
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Sam Seder
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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It's Hump Day! Sam and Emma speak with Dr. Robert Greene, assistant professor of history at Claflin University in South Carolina & president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) , to discuss his writing on Juneteenth. Then, they speak with Jaz Brisack, co-founder of Starbucks Workers United and resident at the Berkeley Labor Center working on developing the Inside Organizer School, to discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of Starbucks.
Follow Dr. Greene on Twitter here: https://x.com/robgreeneII
Check out Dr. Greene's writing on Juneteenth here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/juneteenth-history-holiday/
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/06/why-juneteenth-matters
Check out AAIHS here: https://www.aaihs.org/
Check out Jaz's recent Op-Ed in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/opinion/starbucks-nlrb-striking-workers.html
Find out more about the Inside Organizer School here: https://www.insideorganizerschool.com/
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a free version of the majority report. |
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| 0:11.0 | The majority report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:17.0 | It is Wednesday, June 19th, 2004, my name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning |
| 0:27.1 | majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, |
| 0:38.0 | downtown Brooklyn USA. |
| 0:40.4 | On the program today, Dr. Robert Green, assistant professor of history at Claflin |
| 0:46.4 | University in South Carolina president of the African American |
| 0:50.0 | Intellectual History Society on Juneteenth and how to preserve its actual meaning. |
| 0:59.7 | Then Jazz Brizak, co-founder of Starbucks Workers United, currently in residence at the Berkeley |
| 1:07.0 | Labor Center working on developing the Inside Organizer School. organizer school. |
| 1:29.4 | Meanwhile, B.B. Nett and Yahoo embraces the Biden, I said, say, embarrasses the Biden administration and the White House responds strongly by rescheduling a high-level meeting |
| 1:31.9 | I will show him. U.S. Pier for Gaza, for Gaza aid is falling apart and may be dismantled early. |
| 1:40.0 | Freedom Caucus chair hangs by a thread in the wake of Tuesday's Virginia primary. |
| 1:49.8 | And a January 6th defendant handed defeat in a Georgia primary. |
| 1:57.0 | A flag guy's last name was hand. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.0 | Witness tells House Ethics Committee that Matt Gates paid her for sex. |
| 2:07.0 | Trump advisor Bors Epstein arraigned in Arizona on felony counts regarding a fake elector scheme. |
| 2:18.7 | And Donald Trump's faith advisor, founder of a Texas Megachirt, resigns after sexual abuse allegations. |
| 2:27.0 | He has an interesting way of characterizing them too. |
| 2:34.2 | Amazon Labor Union votes to affiliate with the teamsters |
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