Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and plays The Rent is Too Damn High, in addition to more great music and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of school-workers who make less than $15 and their importance in our educational communties. We hear a short documentary about Karl Marx's views on capitalism, alienated labor, ideology, exploitation, and economic security. Larry Bowlden reviews a non-fiction book, "The Sixth Exinction: an unnatural history," by Elizabeth Kolbert. Bill returns to talk with Jim Cook about the Just Transition project and forum coming to Portland. Frann Michel comments on Black political oratory -- from Frederick Douglass's comments on the ironies of a slave nation celebrating a declaration of liberty and equality in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852) to Jesse Williams's excoriation of oppression and exhortation to action at the BET awards last month.
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Bill Resnick and Patricia Smith on the importance of school workers.
Larry Bowlden reviews The Sixth Extinction
Jim Cook talks with Bill about Just Transition
Frann Michel on African American speakers on liberty and equality.
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