Behind the News: Donna Murch and Ben Burgis

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug interviews Donna Murch on why this is a fruitful moment for labor organizing (Guardian article here). Plus, Ben Burgis, author of Canceling Comedian While the World Burns, on why cancel culture is bad.

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henrywood.
0:36.0	The usual of two guests today.
0:38.0	The historian Don Emerch will explain why.
0:40.0	Appearance is part of the contrary.
0:42.0	This is actually a rich moment for labor organizing.
0:44.0	And then Ben Burgess will talk about why cancel culture is bad.
0:48.0	This is a jam packed show.
0:50.0	If I had the time, I'll talk about this surprisingly good thing
0:53.0	is coming out of Joe Biden.
0:54.0	But I don't, so I won't.
0:56.0	More on that next week.
0:58.0	After the defeat of the union organizing drive,
1:00.0	the Amazon Center in Bessemer, Alabama,
1:02.0	it was easy to fall into pessimism
1:04.0	about the state of organized labor.
1:06.0	My first guest, Don Emerch, associate professor of history at Rutgers,
1:10.0	argues the opposite.
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