People's Struggle Forces Biden to Extend Eviction Moratorium
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode covers the struggle to stop the impending massive wave of evictions. After public outrage and protest, including a sit-in outside Congress led by Rep. Cori Bush, Biden relented and extended the eviction moratorium.
Brian is joined by Lee Camp, host of the TV show Redacted Tonight and author of the book Bullet Points & Punch Lines.
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| 0:00.0 | Six months ago, Donald Trump stopped being president of the United States. Today, we'll take a look at the Biden administration, the Biden White House Biden's policies, and compare them to Donald Trump's. |
| 0:15.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:23.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Real Story on the Socialist program. |
| 0:40.3 | Today is Wednesday. Normally the real story appears on Thursday, but we have breaking news today. |
| 1:00.0 | So we'll run the show Capitalism in Crisis with Professor Richard Wolfe on Thursday rather than Wednesday. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm joined today by Lee Camp. He's a writer, comedian, activist, journalist, and the host of the television show |
| 1:14.6 | redacted tonight, which you can see on RT America. |
| 1:19.3 | Lee is also an organizer and editor of a new media site. |
| 1:23.4 | Be sure to check it out at radindymedia.com. That's radindymedia.com. |
| 1:30.8 | Lee's latest book is called Bullet Points and Punchlines, the most important commentary |
| 1:35.6 | ever written on the epic American tragic comedy. And you can find it and more of his work |
| 1:41.7 | at Lee Camp.com. Lee Camp, welcome back to the socialist program. |
| 1:47.4 | Thanks. It's an honor to be on my second favorite podcast, second to mine. |
| 1:52.0 | Well, mine too. Thank you, Lee, for joining. Let's talk about Biden. |
| 1:57.9 | I mean, Joe Biden was always, well, sometimes he's described as a liberal, but he was never a |
| 2:04.0 | liberal inside the Democratic Party. In fact, when he became a member of the U.S. Senate representing the |
| 2:11.6 | state of Delaware, he immediately became an ally, a personal friend, an ally of Strom Thurmond, who of course was notorious |
| 2:20.3 | for having split the Democratic Party in 1948 when Harry Truman dared to introduce legislation |
| 2:28.8 | to desegregate the U.S. armed forces. This is three years after the defeat of Nazism. Yes, American military forces |
| 2:36.9 | were still completely and legally enforced segregated. And so Strom Thurman broke away from the Democratic |
| 2:44.1 | Party, formed the Dixiecrats, almost caused Terry Truman the election. And he remained an arch racist and segregationist. And when |
| 2:53.1 | Biden came into the Senate, he was like, that's going to be my pal. And as a matter of fact, |
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