Covid Update/Student Activists
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Infectious disease expert, Dr. Michael Osterholm, joins Ralph to update us on the very latest in Covid-related transmission rates, hospitalizations, boosters, therapeutics, testing, masks and more. Then, we welcome Dan Xie, the Political Director at Student PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) to tell us about all the great work her young charges are doing on climate issues, the unhoused, student hunger, affordable textbooks and more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tom Morello, and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm my co-host, David Feldman. Hello, David. |
| 0:18.7 | Good morning. Very important show today. |
| 0:21.4 | That's correct. And to help us get through it is, of course, |
| 0:24.2 | the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello, everybody. You're right, David. |
| 0:28.7 | And we wanted to open the show with another tribute. |
| 0:31.7 | We seem to be doing this a lot lately. |
| 0:34.1 | And this is a particularly poignant for us because this person was a guest on a |
| 0:38.6 | recent show, just the three weeks ago. |
| 0:41.3 | Her name is Hazel Henderson, a remarkable woman with a remarkable history. |
| 0:45.7 | And Ralph, you're an ally with her for many years. |
| 0:48.4 | Why don't you talk about Hazel who passed this past week? |
| 0:51.6 | This is a real tragic loss. Very courageous. |
| 0:54.3 | She did the show a few weeks ago, even though she was in pain. |
| 0:58.6 | From her ailments and she passed away a few days ago. |
| 1:03.4 | There will be obituaries in the major newspapers to be sure here and abroad. |
| 1:09.1 | And she was a spectacular round up political scientist that redefined measurements |
| 1:16.5 | of economies as if people mattered first, not corporate profits, corporate |
| 1:21.2 | buybacks, corporate dividends or corporate bonuses. |
| 1:25.2 | So she challenged the GDP yardsticks because she realized that if you control |
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