Communities of Women Build a Movement
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the non-profit reporters that are unionizing in Ohio, the Hilton Hotel workers striking in Houston, Canada's third party with radical leadership, and Canada's postal strike pits private profits of UPS, FedEx, etc, vs the nation's real postal needs. In the second half of the show, Professor Wolff interviews Kim Westcott, Managing Director of Women Building Up, a new community organization in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to helping formerly incarcerated women reintegrate into new lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.9 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:34.7 | As usual, I'm going to begin with announcements. |
| 0:38.0 | A few, bear with me, please. |
| 0:41.7 | One has to do with an upcoming event on the 11th of October at the women building up, |
| 0:49.7 | building in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:52.1 | We're going to have a guest later today, Kim Westcott, and who will |
| 0:56.6 | be telling you about that. I think you'll be very interested and urge you to listen on the |
| 1:04.1 | second half when she discusses it with us. I also want to remind you that we have a volunteer, Charlie Fabian, who takes your |
| 1:14.3 | suggestions, comments, criticisms, responds, shares them with us, and so on. We are very |
| 1:22.3 | grateful for your engagement in that way and want to remind you, Charlie.Info-438 at gmail.com. |
| 1:34.5 | And finally, I want to thank you for your communications about the fake videos that work |
| 1:41.8 | with likenesses of me, but they aren't me. It's one of the sad side effects of |
| 1:48.6 | AI, etc. You're sending them in, we're getting Google to remove them. Please continue. Sorry that |
| 1:56.3 | we're all burdened with that, but it is an unfortunate part of modern life. |
| 2:03.9 | Before going into the regular topics, I also want to give a shout out to you, to two |
| 2:08.7 | union struggles that I think are very important. |
| 2:13.0 | Indeed, they're heroic. |
| 2:14.8 | The first one has to do with Signal, Ohio. It's a nonprofit collection of |
| 2:21.3 | non-profit news gathering services. It functions in Akron, Cleveland, and Columbus, Ohio, |
| 2:30.8 | and the reporters that work for them, like for other independent nonprofit groupings, which |
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