Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban: We Will Fight Back!
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how a Texas law has destroyed abortion rights for 16 million women and girls and is being used by right-wing political forces as a model for the rest of the country -- but a new fightback movement is taking shape. They also discuss the end of key pandemic relief programs, the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, important victories won by the struggle against the racist murders of Elijah McClain and Ahmaud Arbery, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | A Texas law has destroyed abortion rights for 16 million women and girls in Texas and is being |
| 0:07.1 | used by anti-women, right-wing political forces as a model for the rest of the country. |
| 0:12.4 | But a new fightback movement is taking shape. |
| 0:15.7 | Today we'll also discuss the end of key pandemic relief programs, the aftermath of Hurricane |
| 0:20.2 | Ida, important victories |
| 0:21.8 | won by the struggle against the racist murders of Elijah McLean and Ahmed Arbery, tomorrow marks |
| 0:27.1 | the 76th anniversary of the U.S. occupation of South Korea, which has led to the permanent |
| 0:32.1 | division of the peninsula. |
| 0:34.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:38.4 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:17.0 | It's September 7, 2021. |
| 1:22.1 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:26.8 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:32.0 | If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Evarim, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:40.8 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow.org. |
| 1:46.3 | Please to make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:51.0 | Brian, what's in store for listeners this week? |
| 1:54.1 | Well, we have, again, a packed agenda. |
| 1:57.4 | We're going to talk, as we mentioned in the introduction, about a number of issues, both domestic and international issues. |
| 2:04.1 | But I think we have to begin with the noting the extreme irony that the country had off yesterday because it was Labor Day. |
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