Fightback! 8 Million families facing eviction and foreclosures
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the Democratic Party leadership in Congress and the Biden administration are failing to act in the face of impending mass evictions. They also discuss the grassroots movement against evictions -- including the sit-in outside Congress by Rep. Cori Bush, the latest from the Olympics, the surge in Covid infections, Peru’s new left wing government, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Millions of people are facing eviction just as the pandemic is surging, but the Democratic Party leadership in Congress and the Biden administration are shrugging their shoulders. |
| 0:10.7 | We'll discuss this, the latest from the Olympics and the politics of the Games, Peru's new left-wing government and more. |
| 0:18.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:22.3 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:26.6 | 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. |
| 0:58.8 | It's August 3, 2021. |
| 1:00.9 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:05.7 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:10.5 | If you enjoy the show, |
| 1:11.7 | please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com slash the socialist program |
| 1:16.8 | and subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Eberram, Walter Smalerick, and our host, |
| 1:22.7 | Brian Becker. Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On The Ground Show. |
| 1:28.8 | org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:33.8 | Brian, the eviction moratorium from COVID ended this weekend. Let's start with that. |
| 1:39.5 | The moratorium on evictions ended. The Biden administration did nothing until the last couple days to sound the |
| 1:47.3 | alarm. The Supreme Court made it clear in its last five to four ruling that the CDC, Centers for |
| 1:55.2 | Disease Control, mandated moratorium on evictions using health policy and a public health emergency as a pretext, |
| 2:04.0 | that was not going to be extended or allowed by the Supreme Court. So Congress had to act. |
| 2:10.2 | And everyone knew this was coming. And yet the leaders of Congress did nothing. That would be the |
| 2:16.2 | Democrats. Of course, the Republicans are going to be an obstacle as they are and have been to any moratorium, |
| 2:22.8 | even though it was enacted during the Trump administration. |
| 2:26.2 | They did almost nothing, virtually nothing. |
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