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"With unionized labor, a level of decency and fairness can be achieved in establishing wages and working conditions." ~~Ed Asner, actor, union leader and all-around agitator Hear Judy Ancel chat with legendary actor and Kansas City treasure Ed Asner on the Heartland Labor Forum, Thursday at 6PM, rebroadcast Friday at 5AM.
Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive on Monday posted recently declassified CIA documents on the United States' role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq's ouster has long been public knowledge, but this posting includes what...
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we look at what's happening to our right to privacy: Edward Snowden was not the first. Before him came NSA whistleblowers William Binney, Thomas Andrews Drake, Mark Klein, Thomas Tamm, and Russ Tice. Later, we'll take you to last June's Left Forum for...
Congress is on its August recess and activists for and against immigration reform are cranking up the volume. On this week’s Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask whether immigration reform is stalled out in the House. Will they pass a real reform, or just militarize more of the border without a...
On today's edition of Tell Somebody, host Tom Klammer will talk to Moji Agha about Sunday's event on his Mossadegh Awareness Tour, also known as "Mossadegh Awareness Begets American Nonviolence". About the organization (courtesy of their website): The mission of the MLI (to which we hope the American people pay "indigenous" nonviolent...
"No family should have to choose between paying the rent and buying food. No family can live on $7.25 an hour." ---That was the Reverend Susan McCann, speaking in front of McDonald's last week where workers were on strike. On this week's Heartland Labor Forum, we'll take a look at...
This week on Tell Somebody (now airing at its NEW TIME at 9AM Thursday mornings!), host Tom Klammer will be talking to Robert McChesney, co-author of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America. About the book: When President Barack Obama was reelected, some pundits argued that, despite unbridled...
In Missouri, you can kill someone, do your time, and qualify for food stamps, but not if your crime was drugs. On this week's Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Lora MacDonald of More Squared about how state SNAP--the food stamp program--disqualifies drug felons. Then, parents and teachers in many...
