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C. C. C. B. Z. Okay. We're going to be talking today about

wealthy corporate rich people paying universities and governments to come down on

student protesters. It's a remarkable story and I want to build on a

remarkable piece of reporting in the Washington Post. I want to talk about the head of of in the last few years than anybody can remember any airline company having.

I want to talk briefly about the workers at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama who voted against being represented by the United

Order Workers and finally about that old problem of private versus public transportation and why it's more important

than the shift from gas cars to electric cars. Okay, let's jump right in. A very few days ago the

Washington Post and in case you're interested the date exactly May 16th, Washington Post, carried a story about a recording it had obtained of a

what's-h-h- and rich donors. The rich donors.

The rich donors were pressing the government officials

to use police in universities. They were probably pressuring the

university authorities to do that too, to collaborate with the police, to crush the that were

overwhelmingly peaceful and that were

and that were directed at a peace objective, namely a ceasefire in Gaza.

These peaceful demonstrators demonstrating for peace, were then crushed often violently

by police brought in.

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