East Palestine: Still Derailed One Year Later and Blood in the Machine: Workers vs. Automation

A year ago, a Norfolk Southern train derailed and blanketed East Palestine Ohio with vinyl chloride? We’ll talk to a union rep about the lives impacted, the cleanup and threats to communities like ours. Then author Brian Merchant says there’s Blood in the Machine as he retells the story of how two hundred years ago in rural England, starving workers known as the Luddites rose up against factory owners who automated their jobs. Are there implications for workers today facing AI? Out feature is Know Your Rights with Mark Gruenberg.


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