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The Young Turks

WORKERS RISE UP! TYT's MAY DAY SPECIAL

The Young Turks

TYT Network

News, Politics, Government

3.95.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, Sen. Nina Turner, and Francesca FIorentini go through the history of International Workers Day, and discuss how the labor movements of the past influenced workers rights today.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I'm really, really happy we're doing this.

0:20.0

How are you guys doing?

0:22.0

I'm live.

0:23.0

Good.

0:24.0

Are you both?

0:25.5

I mean, considering the endless cycle of terrible news, as good as I can, I guess.

0:31.5

But at least we get to focus on something that doesn't get focused on nearly enough

0:37.4

in the press in America.

0:38.6

And that is the history of labor, what Mayday really means.

0:43.2

And I thought it would be a good idea to talk about the hay market affair and the hay market

0:47.0

martyrs, which is really where Mayday started.

0:53.6

But before we do that, I just wanted to kind of go to both each of you and talk about

1:00.0

the education you experienced in regard to this particular issue, if any at all, right?

1:07.3

The hay market affair when you guys were in school, did you learn anything about it?

1:12.0

Let me start with Senator Turner.

1:14.0

Yeah, hi, and not really.

1:17.0

Right?

1:18.1

I'm not the college a little bit, but in high school zero, college a little bit in my

1:23.9

American history courses.

1:25.5

What about you, John?

1:26.9

Yeah, so I don't want to accidentally besmarch my teachers because I feel like on average,

1:33.6

I had amazing, incredibly hardworking teachers who went above and beyond, especially considering

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