"Uproot the System!" - Save the Planet, End Capitalism
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how tens of thousands of people marched in Glasgow and all over the world last weekend, chanting “uproot the system!” and demanding the transformation of the world economy to combat the climate crisis. They also discuss developments with the social program budget, the trial of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, and the latest on the Iran nuclear deal.
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| 0:00.0 | chanting uproot the system. Tens of thousands of people marched in Glasgow and all over the world |
| 0:07.6 | over the weekend, demanding the transformation of the world economy to combat the climate crisis. |
| 0:12.9 | We also discussed developments with the social program budget, the trial of the killers of |
| 0:17.6 | Ahmed Arbery, and the latest on the Iran nuclear deal. |
| 0:21.7 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:27.8 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:04.3 | It's November 9th, 2021. |
| 1:09.4 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:11.5 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. Video episodes of The Real Story are available |
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| 1:27.9 | slash the socialist program and subscribing. I'm Nicole Rousel here with Esther Iveram, |
| 1:33.9 | Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show |
| 1:38.9 | and podcast on the ground at on the ground show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, |
| 1:43.9 | which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:46.6 | Welcome to the show, everyone. |
| 1:47.9 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:49.2 | As a programming note, Richard Wolfe is traveling and will be out tomorrow, so no show |
| 1:53.0 | tomorrow, but we'll be back on Thursday. |
| 1:55.4 | Brian, there are tens of thousands of people marching in Glasgow, as I mentioned in the introduction. |
| 2:02.0 | And but all over the world, what's going on? |
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