Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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[S13 E40] Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
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"Update on Nobel Prize in economics to Harvard Prof. Claudia Goldin; comment on Maine/Halloween shootings, global financial secrecy index and President Biden's pursuit of money for war. Major segments on (i) UAW strike victories at Ford, GM and Stellantis, and (ii) abortion access victory in France." Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm your host Richard Wolf. |
| 0:23.0 | As usual, I want to remind you that we now have a very well-functioning volunteer, Charlie |
| 0:29.4 | Fabian, who is available at an email I'm about to give you. |
| 0:34.0 | If you have suggestions, proposals, documents that you think we might be able to use |
| 0:40.0 | to construct these segments on our program, |
| 0:43.3 | please let Charlie know. |
| 0:45.4 | Here's the email. |
| 0:47.1 | Charlie. |
| 0:48.8 | info 438 at gmail.com. |
| 0:53.8 | once again Charlie dot info |
| 0:57.4 | for38 at gmail dot com |
| 1:01.9 | today's program is going to look at Harvard Professor Gloria Golden |
| 1:06.8 | who just got the Nobel Prize in economics. We're going to have something to |
| 1:11.0 | say about the spate of shootings, the big one in Maine that you all have heard about, |
| 1:17.0 | and then the literal rampage of shootings across the Halloween weekend. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm going to talk a little bit about the Financial Secrecy Index, |
| 1:28.5 | in case you haven't heard about that, |
| 1:30.7 | and then have a few words to say about President Biden's proposal of a |
| 1:36.2 | supplemental 106 billion dollars for various military activities around the world on top of everything already spent there. |
| 1:47.4 | In the second half of the program, we're going to be talking about the remarkable results of the United Auto Workers' Strike against the big three auto companies here in the United States, |
| 2:00.0 | and then something also about the struggle around abortion. |
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