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The Hartmann Report

Community activists in Toledo are taking on big polluters feeding poisonous algal blooms in Lake Erie- What other ways can Progressives work to save our earth from corporate greed?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America, News, The Hartmann Report, Thom Hartmann, Economics, Debate

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

  • Thom asks when we'll overcome the wholesale ownership of our politicians by the wealthy that block the policies that most Americans want.


  • Thom interviews community activist Tish O'Dell with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Toledo- they've successfully had a majority of voters in their city agree that Lake Erie has rights of nature that should be respected. (www.CELDF.org)


  • Thom's callers engage in a fascinating discussion of the state of the environment in response to the protection of Lake Erie. Should the pharma and fossil fuel corporations causing deaths and then declaring bankruptcy to avoid being held accountable? Will solar power save the earth?


  • Thom checks in with Talk Media News to find out what's going on in the world - Luke Vargas has been watching our evolving Trump foreign policy with India, Turkey, and China.


  • A scam warning from Thom.. taxing the stock market.. and Thom holds court with his callers on how Progressives should respond to Republican shenanigans. And an Idaho bill ending child marriage before age 16 was voted down by Republicans in the state house.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program.

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Welcome back to the Tom Hartman Program.

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0:40.2

There's a time to stop oppressing the super majority, a piece of New York Times where Tim Wu

0:46.7

points out that while Congress is doing nothing, actually the Senate, the Republican-controlled Senate is doing nothing on any of these issues. The Republican-controlled Senate is

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doing nothing on any of these issues. The democratically-controlled House is actually

0:59.6

passing legislation right now on all of these issues.

1:04.0

But here's what he says.

1:05.2

About 75% of Americans favor higher taxes

1:08.1

for the ultra wealthy.

1:09.6

Paid maternity leave, 67% support, 83% support for net neutrality, over 60% stronger

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privacy laws 71% think we should be able to buy drugs imported from Canada.

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92% want Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices and so on and

1:25.6

none of that is happening because of Republican obstruction. Now why is

1:29.7

that not happening because of Republican obstruction, because the Republicans are owned by right-wing

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billionaires and the corporations that made them billionaires.

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It really just comes right down to that.

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His article is titled the oppression of the

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supermajority you know what when will the majority of the oppressed majority of

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