A Socialist Mayor in New York State's Second Largest City?
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the election of a socialist in the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo, New York, a series of dramatic reversals by the Biden administration over infrastructure, injustices in the prison system, the sentencing of convicted murderer Derek Chauvin, U.S. airstrikes attacking Iraq and Syria, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | A tumultuous back and forth in Congress over infrastructure and the election of a socialist |
| 0:05.7 | in the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo, New York, shine new light on the fierce |
| 0:10.4 | struggle of the rising people's movement and the establishment elite. |
| 0:13.9 | We'll also cover injustices in the prison system, the sentencing of convicted murderer Derek |
| 0:18.2 | Chauvin, and U.S. airstrikes attacking Iraq and Syria. |
| 0:22.5 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:28.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:03.2 | It's June 29, 2021. |
| 1:05.4 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:10.2 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines |
| 1:11.5 | and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. If you enjoy the show, please support |
| 1:16.6 | this independent programming by going to patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Eversom, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:27.9 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On The Ground |
| 1:32.2 | Show.org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly every single Friday. |
| 1:38.4 | Brian, let's get started. There's a lot of big stories today. |
| 1:41.8 | I want to, first off, pay our tribute to our friend, Mike Revelle. |
| 1:46.9 | He was senator from Alaska between 1969 and 1981. Mike Revelle was the member of the Senate |
| 1:55.3 | who dared to read into the congressional record the Pentagon Papers when there was an injunction against |
| 2:03.6 | the New York Times and the Washington Post for publishing the Pentagon Papers. |
| 2:07.8 | Of course, we were thrilled to have Daniel Ellsberg, the greatest or most well-known |
| 2:14.1 | whistleblower perhaps in the United States here as a special guest on the 50th |
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