How the People Blocked the Israeli Apartheid Ship
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem and Walter Smolarek discuss an exciting new victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, a crackdown on journalists that has gained momentum with successive administrations, how Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has vowed to help Republicans defeat a key piece of voting rights legislation introduced in Congress, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we take a look at key developments in the fight to avert climate catastrophe, an exciting |
| 0:06.7 | new victory for the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a crackdown on journalists that has gained |
| 0:11.9 | momentum with successive administrations, and how Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has vowed |
| 0:17.3 | to help Republicans defeat a key piece of voting rights legislation introduced in Congress |
| 0:22.9 | and more. |
| 0:24.7 | We need a new system. |
| 0:26.8 | We need a new society. |
| 0:28.7 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only |
| 0:34.3 | realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:05.8 | Music but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. I'm Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist program with Brian Becker. It's June 8th, 2021. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:14.4 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:19.0 | If you enjoyed the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com |
| 1:24.4 | slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:28.3 | And once you subscribe, register for our patrons-only seminar with Brian next Wednesday, June 16th at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:37.4 | Supporters can ask Brian questions beforehand and live on the seminar. |
| 1:41.5 | I'm Walter Smolerick, here with Esther Averam and our host Brian Becker. |
| 1:45.8 | Esther Averam is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow. |
| 1:52.0 | org. Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:57.4 | Nicole Roussel will be back with us next week. Well, Brian, let's start off by talking about some important struggles on the environmental front. |
| 2:06.4 | Right. |
| 2:06.9 | And before we do that, I mean, it's part of it. |
| 2:09.9 | But I want to just mention that I was looking at a Facebook post this morning posted by our friend Ted Raal. |
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