We Can't Wait Until November: Thousands Take to the Streets to Defend Abortion Rights
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how protesters took to the streets all throughout the last week in cities and towns across the country in outraged response to the Supreme Court’s draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade – which was heroically leaked to the public before it was finalized. The panel also discusses the latest updates on the war in Ukraine, elections in the Philippines and Northern Ireland, Amazon being challenged in the halls of Congress, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | protesters took to the streets all throughout the last week in cities and towns across the |
| 0:05.7 | country an outraged response to the Supreme Court's draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, |
| 0:11.0 | which was heroically leaked to the public before it was finalized. We'll also discuss the latest |
| 0:16.0 | updates on the war in Ukraine, elections in the Philippines and Northern Ireland, Amazon being |
| 0:20.8 | challenged in the halls |
| 0:21.7 | of Congress, and more. |
| 0:23.9 | We need a new system. |
| 0:26.0 | We need a new society. |
| 0:27.9 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only |
| 0:33.5 | realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:04.2 | Thank you. only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:11.5 | It's May 10, 2022. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:16.0 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:22.1 | Video episodes of The Real Story are available on Breakthrough News, Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern at YouTube.com slash breakthrough news. |
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| 1:29.3 | slash the socialist program and subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Walter Smalerick and Esther |
| 1:34.9 | Iberram. Brian Becker is out today. Esther Iveram is also the host of the radio show and podcast |
| 1:40.3 | on the ground at on the ground show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes |
| 1:45.0 | out weekly on Fridays. This last week, like I said in the introduction, people have been |
| 1:51.1 | throughout the streets, throughout the country, have been just absolutely livid, outraged at what |
| 1:57.6 | happened with the leaked opinion as they're from the Supreme Court. There were more |
| 2:02.9 | than 30 cities just this weekend from Friday to Monday yesterday. Over 30 cities had protests, |
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