Equal Time Radio: Recent Episodes
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EQUAL TIME is where Vermonters talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—mothers opposing toxic pollution, workers fighting for decent jobs, nurses working for health care reform, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, and more.
Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen discusses the need and program for a broad social justice, class struggle labor movement.
Joel Jordan and Isaac Kreisman about Reopening Schools and Les Leopold about the Covid-19 Crisis & Runaway Inequality: We are NOT All in This Together.
We talk with Damion Gilbert about the Mass Car Caravan for Our Future, for the Jobs & Public Services We need; and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the Meaning of the Nationwide Uprising Sparked by the Police Lynching of George Floyd; and Jeremy Gong on Why We Have to Demand an End to the Social Order That Led to George Floyd’s Murder
Former Vermont State Rep. Kiah Morris, a leader on issues of diversity, equity, and leadership, now Rights & Democracy's Movement Politics Director, addresses the Meaning of the Nationwide Uprising Sparked by the Police Lynching of George Floyd and our tasks in Vermont. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, and Assistant Professor of Princeton's African American Studies program puts the multiracial Rebellion in the context of the deepening economic crisis for working class people hit with spiraling unemployment, food insecurity and looming economic ruin. Ashley Smith, Vermont DSA activist and managing editor of Spectre magazine, links the mass uprising to our fight against austerity. Alex Vitale, who runs the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and is the author of The End of Policing explains Why the Answer to Police Violence is not 'Reform'It's Defunding
VSEA analyst Adam Norton discusses the Collapse of State Revenues and Possible Cuts in Jobs and Public Services; Stephanie Yu, of the Public Assets Institute, reports on how the Crises' Affect Vermonters' Livelihoods; and Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen calls for Resisting the Attacks on Our Jobs & Living Conditions and Building a Better Vermont.
We talk with Kate Gold, President of VSCS-United Professionals at Northern Vermont University, and Tanya Vyhovsky of Rights & Democracy about the Vermont People's Bailout: COVID Virtual Town Hall, and Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, joined by Ashley Smith of Champlain Valley DSA, about the May Day/Primero de Mayo Car Rally for Essential Workers in Vermont.
Economic analyst Doug Henwood warns that This Downturn Could Be Worse Than the Early 1930s, but it’s also an opportunity to emerge from this crisis as a better country. Meagan Day, co-author of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism discusses the possibilities and strategies necessary "to take the baton from Sanders and run with it," building a mass, multiracial working-class movement bigger and more radical than Bernie.
Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen puts forward the actions that the Vermont AFL-CIO is demanding be taken to combat COVID-19 and the looming income crisis for working people
Jack Rasmus, author of The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Trump, discusses the global financial asset deflation underway: prelude to next great recession and the impact of COVID-19 on the working class.
Dan Fingas on Raising the Minimum Wage & the Case for Paid Family Leave, and Daniel Denvir, author of All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It