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The Hartmann Report

We Are Somebody!

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Senator Nina Turner is a hell-raising humanitarian, thought leader and Senior Fellow at The the New School Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. She joins Thom to discuss workers rights and what her new organization intends to do about them.

Also, Greg Palast is back on the case with his new movie "LONG KNIFE: Osage Oil and the new trail of tears"



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Right now on the line with us is our old friend Nina Turner, the hell-raising humanitarian

0:53.0

and thought leader and senior fellow at the new school institute on race, power, and political

0:57.6

economy. She served on Senator Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns as a national surrogate in

1:02.1

2016 and national co-chair in 2020. The honorable Nina Turner is the former Ohio state senator and

1:09.4

the founder of a new organization. We are somebody.org. And Nina, welcome back.

1:15.5

It's great to have you with us.

1:17.3

Yeah, it's been way too long. I agree. I agree. So tell us about us, Senator, tell us about

1:22.5

we are somebody.org. Well, it is a capacity-building organization for the work and class.

1:29.7

And time we know the advent or the rise of the 21st century unionist movement is in full effect

1:36.8

as various unions across various sectors from teachers to nurses to UPS workers, which thank

1:44.8

God they were able to get their contract that they wanted. The UAWs I don't strike right now

1:48.4

to Starbucks workers. You name it. People are rising up to say that they deserve better benefits,

1:53.6

better wages, and better work conditions. And so we are somebody that seeks to be in this fight

1:58.9

and to be able to amplify, organize, and help to fund for workers on the front lines. And not

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