Resisting Trump's Restoration Project with Kali Akuno
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week on Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff examines a major labor strike unfolding in California, where 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health workers are fighting for better conditions. Next, we break down how tariffs function as an economic weapon, undermining the living standards of U.S. workers.
Finally, Professor Wolff sits down with Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, to discuss Trump’s controversial "restoration" agenda and the growing resistance against it.
Kali Akuno is the co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker cooperatives and community-led programs that sustain and grow a democratic, just, and sustainable economy in Jackson, MS. Among these programs is the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust, which enables community members to collectively steward the land and creates opportunities for affordable property ownership.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.7 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:32.7 | I want to remind you before we jump into today's program again that Charlie Fabian is available if |
| 0:39.0 | you have suggestions for our programs. We are very grateful for the number of you that |
| 0:44.8 | send those into us and we check each and every one. You can get it at Charlie.Info |
| 0:53.0 | 438 at gmail.com. Also to remind you that understanding capitalism, the book we have |
| 1:01.7 | produced, is a companion to this program. It's a way of looking more deeply into the whole |
| 1:08.1 | question of how the capitalist system works that accompanies the particular |
| 1:13.2 | analyses we stress in this particular program. |
| 1:17.6 | And one more quick announcement. |
| 1:19.7 | On April 30th, we will have this month's global capitalism lecture. |
| 1:25.3 | I will be doing it in partnership with our friendly organization, |
| 1:31.0 | Women Building Up, which is located at 401 State Street in Brooklyn. It's in the early |
| 1:38.9 | evening of April 30th. If you're interested, go to our website, Democracy at Work.info, where you can find |
| 1:46.9 | information on the home page about tickets and so forth. Today's program is going to be dealing |
| 1:54.1 | with a huge strike, 2,400 workers at the Kaiser Permanente operations in California, and an analysis one more time |
| 2:04.7 | of how the tariffs of Mr. Trump are an attack on the working class and should be understood |
| 2:11.7 | in that way. In the second half of the show, we will be interviewing Kali Akuno, a very well-known activist |
| 2:20.4 | across the United States and beyond trying to do something that is both a resistance to what |
| 2:27.3 | Trump is after and also a long-term project of social change. |
| 2:33.4 | So a good program, and let's jump right in. |
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