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 left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on September 12, 2020. The guest is Jane McAlevey. Jane is a union organizer and author of both No Shortcuts and A Collective Bargain.
Weekends: Woodward's COVID Tapes, Phony Right-Wing Populism, and Jane McAlevey on Labor
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 120 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to weekends with Anna Kasparian and Nando Vila. |
| 0:18.3 | Nando how you doing? |
| 0:19.4 | I'm doing good back home I got my books look you see you people you happy about that I love it yes Nando does read everyone he does own books |
| 0:31.2 | It's so good to be back you know I was gone last week, but you guys really held it down and I enjoyed the show. |
| 0:37.0 | The interview with Matt Karp was fantastic. |
| 0:40.0 | So for those of you who are tuning in right now, maybe you missed that interview from last week. |
| 0:45.0 | Make sure you subscribe to the Jacobin channel, Jacobin mag, YouTube.com slash Jacobin mag, |
| 0:51.0 | and watch that interview with Matt Karp |
| 0:52.7 | and the commentary segments were excellent as well. |
| 0:56.0 | But that doesn't mean today's show |
| 0:57.1 | isn't going to be fantastic. |
| 0:58.6 | We're going to have what I think |
| 1:00.4 | is one of the most important interviews |
| 1:02.8 | we can possibly have at this moment. |
| 1:05.0 | It's with Jane Mcaleavy, and she is a legendary labor organizer. |
| 1:10.6 | So we're gonna talk strategy. |
| 1:12.0 | We're gonna talk about what needs to be done and how we can test strategies in order to actually accomplish some protections for workers and beyond. |
| 1:24.6 | So really looking forward to that. |
| 1:27.0 | Later on in the show, we're gonna discuss the wildfires |
| 1:29.4 | in California, Oregon, and Washington |
| 1:32.4 | and how corporate Democrats are pretending to care about climate change. |
| 1:37.0 | So we'll probably dunk on them quite a bit. |
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