TMBS 146 ReAir: 146 - Save The Post Office & Labor + Uprising in 2020 ft. Bill Fletcher, Jr.
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 146 aired on June 30th, 2020.
Episode summary:
We gotta save the USPS.
Bill Fletcher Jr. joins us to talk about the future of the movement & why learning the history of the radical agenda of the US Right is crucial to opposing it.
The FED is standing up for big business, who is standing up for you?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Brooks show. |
| 0:12.7 | We're broadcasting live from our different quarantine zones in Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:19.6 | We carry the spirit of Lula Livre, the uprisings that have been happening across this |
| 0:26.1 | country, across the globe, and the West, the solidarity-driven, humane future. |
| 0:32.1 | Somehow we'll figure out how to make that a snap and slogan with super producer Matt Leck. |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah, get the mic out of your way, buddy. |
| 0:39.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:41.5 | Beef economist, David Griscombe. |
| 0:43.5 | On this week's program, the great Bill Fletcher Jr. |
| 0:47.6 | He returns. |
| 0:48.5 | He's the former president of the Trans-Africa Forum, labor organizer, writer, and intellectual. |
| 0:54.0 | We're talking about five steps for a transformative labor union movement |
| 0:59.0 | and how it relates to mutual aid, the uprisings in the street |
| 1:03.0 | against police brutality, viciousness, and racism. |
| 1:06.0 | And of course, his take on the 2020 election, how it fits. |
| 1:12.4 | Very eager to be speaking with Bill Fletcher, Jr. |
| 1:15.7 | We've got a gem. |
| 1:17.8 | David, what's in the gem? |
| 1:19.1 | We're going to be talking about how a few billionaires |
| 1:21.5 | have to use the past few months to make more billions |
| 1:24.6 | and how the rest of us basically found ourselves in a deeper hole, thanks to our |
| 1:29.6 | others. Indeed, on the post game, a whole lot to get through. Very excited for patrons. Joshua |
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