Weekends: May Day w/ Richard Wolff and Meagan Day

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from May 1, 2021.

Professor Richard Wolff joins us to talk about the historic significance of May Day and rebuilding the trade union movement. Meagan Day stops by to discuss how the Nazis tried to appropriate May Day and how the socialist vision won out. Finally, we discuss Kamala Harris's "woke imperialist" statements to Guatemala's president and what it says about today's Democratic establishment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to our wonderful weekend's audience.
0:18.6	Happy May Day.
0:19.6	Obviously you're watching Weekends with Anna Casparian, Nando Villa and Nando.
0:24.0	This is going to be one of my favorite shows.
0:25.4	I can already feel it.
0:27.0	You feel it.
0:28.0	You're feeling good.
0:29.0	I feel it.
0:29.9	I love everything that we have planned for the show today.
0:33.9	Later, Megan Day is going to come on to briefly discuss one of the pieces that she published
0:38.9	today in regard to May Day.
0:40.8	We're going to have Professor Richard Wolfe.
0:42.8	I mean, heavy hitter on the show.
0:45.8	Really excited.
0:46.8	Love Wolfe.
0:47.8	Always getting excited when Wolfe's on the show.
0:49.8	Everyone loves him.
0:50.8	He's such a hit every time the audience, they can't get enough of Wolfe and I don't blame
0:54.5	them.
0:55.5	Yeah.
0:56.5	I mean, Destiny might not be watching.
0:57.5	But that's okay.
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