ReAir TMBS 134 - #ShutdownAmazon ft. Richard Wolff & Chris Smalls
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 134 aired on Apr 7, 2020
Episode summary:
We need to reclaim the local.
Shoutout to the Kerala government & the Teamsters.
Richard Wolff (@profwolff) joins us to talk about what this crisis means for the capitalist system.
We are joined by Chris Smalls (@shutdown_amazon) to talk about the Amazon strikes.
During the GEM, David breaks down the winners and losers of the covid crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:13.7 | It's the Michael Brooks show. |
| 0:15.1 | We're broadcasting live from our respective quarantine corners with super producer Matluck. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello. |
| 0:26.4 | Chief economist David Griscombe. |
| 0:28.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the show, everybody, wishing everybody health and safety in this horrifying and brutal time for so many. |
| 0:39.6 | Joining us on this week's program, Professor Richard Wolfe, the cataclysm of capitalism, |
| 0:45.7 | COVID, and where we are today. Then Chris Smalls, he's organizing against Amazon, and we are having |
| 0:53.8 | his back. |
| 0:55.0 | Amazon boycotts holding not only companies to account, but the entire country, the entire economy to account as this crisis has been used to consolidate capital and rob the 99% blind. |
| 1:13.0 | We're talking about his organizing his story, how we can help. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm incredibly excited about that. |
| 1:20.9 | Observe the boycott, folks. |
| 1:23.4 | And of course, we have a gem with David G. |
| 1:28.2 | David, how are you going to bring Johnny Cash into this? |
| 1:33.4 | That'd be a good move. |
| 1:34.5 | Maybe in the future we should do a deep dive into the classics outlaw country, honestly. |
| 1:40.8 | We should do an illicit history of that. |
| 1:43.3 | Folks, in addition to that, we will talk about why Kerala has an effective people-centered |
| 1:49.6 | response to this crisis. |
| 1:52.0 | Kerala communism, the Karela Communist Party in India is actually one of the most successful |
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