Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Unheeded Afghan Collapse Memo

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jonathan Guyer of The American Prospect joins Suzi to discuss his August 26 piece called, "The Unheeded Dissent Cable." This is a knockout—a devastating memo, all the more so because it was sent to the State Department on July 13, and was then buried, never reaching the White House and National Security Council. We get Jonathan’s understanding of how this memo could have been ignored, and what it says about the Biden administration’s national security team.

Veena Dubal, Law Professor at UC Hastings, explains the August 20 decision [PDF: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046832/castellanos-order.pdf] ruling Prop. 22 unconstitutional and “unenforceable in its entirety.” Written and funded by Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates, Prop 22 rewrote labor law in favor of the app-based transportation and delivery network companies, allowing their workers to be classified as independent contractors not employees. Prop 22 deprives workers of overtime pay, unemployment and workers’ compensation coverage, and the right to unionize. And the gig companies that authored Prop 22 made it nearly impossible to change, requiring a seven-eighths vote by the California legislature to modify it. But now Judge Roesch has declared Proposition 22 unconstitutional and unenforceable, and Veena Dubal explains the ruling, the grounds for the Judge’s decision, the response of the companies, and what is likely to happen next.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman. On today's program we begin with the withdrawal
0:18.5	from Afghanistan. Jonathan Gaier, managing editor of the American Prospect, has written
0:24.2	a piece in the Prospect on August 26th called the Unheated Descent Cable. The White House
0:30.5	only heard about an urgent warning of Afghanistan's collapse after reading news reports. This
0:36.5	is a knockout, a devastating memo, all the more so because it was sent to the State Department
0:41.8	on July 13th and then was buried never reaching the White House and the National Security Council.
0:48.9	We'll get Jonathan's understanding about how this memo could have been ignored and what
0:53.2	it says about the Biden administration's national security team. We then turn to an historic
0:59.3	ruling for an historic measure. Vina Dubal, law professor at UC Hastings, joins us to explain
1:06.1	the ruling or decision from Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roche that declared
1:12.4	Prop 22 unconstitutional and unenforceable in its entirety. Prop 22, written and funded by Uber
1:21.9	Lyft, Instacart and Postmates, rewrote labor law that would classify the company's drivers
1:28.0	as employees rather than independent contractors without benefits such as overtime pay, workers'
1:34.2	compensation coverage and the right to unionize. We'll get Vina Dubal's take on the grounds for
1:39.7	this decision and what is likely to happen next as well as its larger significance. All this when
1:46.0	our program returns in just a moment.
2:01.4	This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman and today we're going to continue our coverage
2:06.7	of Afghanistan and the withdrawal. I'm really pleased to have here for the first time, Jonathan
2:12.2	Gaier, he's the managing editor of the American prospect and he's written for all kinds of journals
2:19.2	and newspapers, foreign policy, New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, many more and he's been a
2:25.4	regular contributor also to the BEEB or the BBC France 24 and public radio internationals
2:32.6	the world. He's also been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists with the
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