meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Jacobin Radio

Weekends: The NBA Strike, Save the Post Office, and Deindustrialization in Kenosha, WI

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Every Saturday starting 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 left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show from August 29th.

The guest today is Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union.

Subscribe to the channel and press the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

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

0:18.9

and Nando Vila and we have an awesome show ahead for you.

0:23.0

In fact, we're going to have an incredibly important interview

0:26.0

with the president of the American Postal Workers Union,

0:29.0

Mark Diamondstein,

0:31.0

and we're also going to discuss the player strike that happened this week

0:36.3

along with why Kenosha is in a pretty terrible economic situation because of

0:44.8

de-industrialization.

0:45.9

So we'll discuss that in my commentary segment.

0:48.2

And lots of salt today, just foreign that salt, right, Nando?

0:52.1

Especially for our good friend Ram Emanuel,

0:54.3

a failed politician who likes to give advice

0:56.8

to current politicians.

0:58.6

You're sounding like Trump.

0:59.8

He's a failed politician, likes to give advice.

1:02.3

You know, very nasty, very nasty to me.

1:04.5

Yeah.

1:05.1

Not good, not a good politician.

1:08.2

The faith to do nothing Democrat.

1:10.9

Wait, but speaking of Trump, Anna, I got to ask you because this week has been the

1:14.4

RNC and I have not watched almost any of it. I went to the R&C in 2012, I went to the R&C in 2016,

1:20.3

but this year I am not watching it a lot.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jacobin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.