Episodes
Tuesday May 02, 2017
Leid Stories—Surviving the First 100 Days of Donald Trump’s Presidency—05.02.17
Tuesday May 02, 2017
Tuesday May 02, 2017
Leid Stories listeners share their views about the impact Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office has had on their lives and on their political views.
Monday May 01, 2017
Monday May 01, 2017
It’s International Workers’ Day, and all across America labor and a wide range of activist groups are staging rallies and demonstrations in solidarity with a global agenda for change. For decades the day—created in memory of workers killed at Haymarket Square in Chicago on May 4, 1886 while on strike for eight-hour work days—all but slipped into oblivion. But recent developments and trends in the world of work seem to have created an urgency within the labor movement to safeguard workers’ hard-won turf and to check the corporate-political alliance that is constantly shifting economic goal posts.
Dr. Richard D. Wolff, a Marxist economist, discusses the crisis the U.S. system is in, and the consequential crisis it has created for workers.