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Weekends: Modern Slavery and Uber Capital Strike (ft. Mark Dudzic)

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This is the podcast version. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left.

The guest for this episode, which originally aired August 22, 2020, is Mark Dudzic. He is a longtime union activist, former national organizer of the Labor Party, and current national coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.

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0:00.0

The What's up everyone? Happy Saturday. You're watching weekends with Anna Kasparian and

0:19.2

Nando Vila. Nando, no relation to Bob Vila.

0:23.2

No. Although you did make a joke about it earlier this week.

0:26.4

How are you doing?

0:27.4

He's, you know, I think we're related in spirit.

0:29.9

You know, we're both just handymen, you know, real men who'd like to play with their tools that's me and Bob.

0:35.0

Yep. So we have a lot of great you know content to get to today.

0:42.0

We're going to have a fantastic interview

0:45.6

about Medicare for all and ask some pretty hard-hitting questions about why it

0:49.2

is that progressive politicians are not using this opportunity during the pandemic to actually push

0:54.4

for Medicare for all. Mark Dudsick will join in for that conversation.

0:58.9

Our commentary segments are they seem a little too local today because both of us are going to talk about

1:05.8

California, but I think that what's happening in California is really a symptom of what we're

1:11.7

seeing across the country with neoliberal policies and basically

1:16.9

exploiting not just any old labor but prison labor.

1:21.3

Yeah, it's just very it's very bleak and dystopian.

1:25.6

It really is, it really is.

1:27.3

But we're going to do our best to have fun even though we're dealing with some pretty terrible

1:31.1

topics.

1:32.1

We also wanted to start off the show by talking a little bit about our

1:36.3

you know thoughts, some reflections on the Democratic National Convention which took place

1:41.2

over the last week.

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