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Tyler Cherry – Media Matters – Tin Foil Hat Awards
September 08, 2017

This week on The Tin Foil Hat Awards from Media Matters, we have Tyler Cherry on to let us know what was crazy in media this week.

Doug Cunningham – WIN – Workers Won’t Settle For Crumbs When It Comes To NAFTA Renegotiations
September 08, 2017

Doug Cunningham of Worker’s independent News joins us to update us on NAFTA negotiations. It appears that worker’s issues aren’t really being looked at very seriously but the AFL-CIO is ...

Informed Action – The Anti-Smoking Campaign and Climate Change Awareness Have A Lot In Common
September 07, 2017

This week on Informed Action with Allen Kukovich and Tom Balya we talk about the similarities between the campaign to inform people on the dangers of smoking and climate change. ...

Kevin Hickerson – FEA – DeVos Is A Real Problem For Public Schools
September 07, 2017

Kevin Hickerson from the Fairfax Education Association helps us discuss DACA and how it is an important program for our country as a whole. We talk about how it appears ...

Katie Warczak – CGE – Penn State Administration Claims Graduate Students Aren’t Employees and They’re Wrong
September 07, 2017

Katie Warczak from the Coalition of Graduate Employees joins us to talk about the Penn State graduate students’ union vote that is coming up pretty soon. They have been at ...

Jason Schwartz – POLITICO – Is Facebook Really Curbing Fake News?
September 07, 2017

From POLITICO we have Jason Schwartz on the program to talk about Facebook’s effort to reduce fake news and how they are still allowing Russian hackers to purchase ad space. ...

Craig Harrington – MM – Despite Right Wing Denial of Climate Change, They are Still Prepping
September 07, 2017

Craig Harrington from Media Matters joins us to talk about how both Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump have denied climate change but of also have made efforts to protect their ...

Guy Molyneux – The Wages of Neglect Part 4
September 07, 2017

Guy Molyneux from The American Prospect comes on the program for the fourth installment of our series “The Wages of Neglect” He studies primarily white working class people and their ...

Bryant Simon – The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
September 06, 2017

Bryant Simon, author of “The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives” joins us to summarize the events of September 3rd 1991 in Hamlet, ...

Kay Tillow – Unions For Single Payers – Single Payer is The Way For America
September 06, 2017

Kay Tillow from Unions for Single Payer joins us to talk about how single payer has become a much more popular idea since the heavy attack on the ACA. She ...