Unionizing American Architects
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the I.C.E. raid at a battery factory in Georgia, the growing inequality in the U.S. during both Trump terms, the 75 U.S. military airstrikes on Somalia in 2025, and France's mass national street actions against the Macron government's austerity policies. The second part of the episode features an interview with Christopher G Beck, the architect who is organizing a union of architects in the U.S. and author of the new book, The Labor of Architecture.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the |
| 0:26.5 | economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard |
| 0:32.4 | Wolf. Before we get into the substantive parts of today's program, two quick announcements. |
| 0:40.1 | If you want to participate in the plenary session and workshop on October 11th about how |
| 0:46.7 | we can make the solidarity economy real, it's presented by the Left Forum, the People's Network for Land and Liberation, and the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City, known as Scenic. |
| 1:04.0 | We are participating, we at Democracy at Work. It will all take place October 11th at Women Building Up in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:15.6 | Again, go to our website, click on the banner, and all the information, including how to register, |
| 1:21.6 | will be there for you to use as you see fit. One last item. We are now being besieged, as some of you have noticed, |
| 1:32.2 | with fake videos. That is videos made probably with the help of artificial intelligence |
| 1:40.6 | that take my words and reassemble them. |
| 1:45.3 | Often take parts of my face and reassemble them so it looks like I'm speaking about issues |
| 1:52.9 | I haven't spoken about, taking positions that are not mine, but all with my face. You've been so kind as to build up your numbers. |
| 2:04.1 | We have over half a million YouTube followers now that I have a reputation that's worth |
| 2:09.9 | other people making fake videos about. |
| 2:14.4 | You've reported them. |
| 2:15.6 | We report them to Google, YouTube, and all of that. |
| 2:19.2 | If you see them, if you suspect them, let us know. |
| 2:22.6 | We can file away complaints about them, which we do. |
| 2:26.6 | And at least we can tell you that, yes, indeed, you've caught a fake because there are |
| 2:32.0 | more and more of them out there. |
| 2:34.0 | I regret to have to say |
| 2:36.0 | to you. Okay, let's jump right in to the topics. I want to begin with the attack by the ICE |
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