State Senator And Socialist - Interview with Kristen Gonzalez (NY State Senator)
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses the rise of the Chinese car industry, the struggle between employers vs employees over in-person vs remote workplaces, and the US military's anti-vax program in the Philippines as part of the US-China Cold War that is already underway. In the second half of our program, we interview Kristen Gonzalez, New York State Senator, District 59, on progressives winning elections.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.4 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host Richard Wolf. I want to remind you as usual that our volunteer Charlie Fabian |
| 0:37.4 | is ready and willing to receive your emails with whatever suggestions, documents, topics you would like to have us consider for the design of this program in the months and years ahead. |
| 0:50.0 | You can reach him by email at Charlie. |
| 0:55.0 | dot info 438. |
| 0:58.0 | at gmail.com once again Charlie dot info 438 at gmail.com. |
| 1:07.0 | Today's program is especially interesting, I think. |
| 1:10.0 | It will have its first half around three topics. |
| 1:14.0 | The exploding global market in Chinese electric vehicles |
| 1:20.0 | and what that's about. |
| 1:22.0 | The class struggle between employers and employees, which never stops, |
| 1:27.1 | but has now got a new area for struggle that's between working at home, working remotely, and working in the office or at the work site. |
| 1:37.0 | And finally, the revelations by the Reuters News Service in England of a program by the American military |
| 1:47.2 | to persuade people not to get vaxed against COVID, spending your and my tax dollars to do that in the Philippines because they were |
| 1:59.9 | using Chinese vaccines. The same government that was pushing vaccines on Americans |
| 2:08.8 | was pushing the opposite way in the Philippines, something to think about. |
| 2:15.0 | In the second half, we're going to have a special guest. |
| 2:19.0 | Her name is Kristen Gonzalez. |
| 2:22.0 | She's a socialist, and she's a socialist and she's also the senator from the 59th District of New York |
| 2:28.8 | State the youngest woman ever to be elected to the New York State Senate and she'll be our |
| 2:35.7 | guest and we'll have interesting things to share with us. So let's get |
| 2:40.5 | started. |
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