Archive for the ‘budget cuts’ tag
Jamie’s annual birthday depression spiral, fast food strikes hit fifth city, how austerity kills
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Jamie’s annual birthday depression spiral, Citizen Radio’s most powerful Maniacs (featuring Toom Cleen!), followed by a discussion of the spreading fast food strikes, the continuing Guantanamo hunger strikes, a New York activist facing jail time because of his silence, how austerity kills (and doesn’t work), Florida speeding up its executions, and Bangladesh’s government saying it will allow its workers to unionize.
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Free Cooper Union, NOLA shooting, DOJ seizes journalists’ phone records
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Allison and Jamie discuss the Free Cooper Union movement, Buena Vista high school in Michigan closing six weeks early because the district ran out of money, the recent NOLA shooting and the establishment media’s collective yawn, DOJ seizing journalists’ phone records, IRS targeting political groups, ex-Guatamala dictator Montt being convicted of genocide, a worker-owned factory opening in Chicago, and two LGBT stories: one very sad and one victory.
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When is a terrorist not a terrorist? (When he’s a white dude), u can haz class war
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Allison and Jamie talk about how terrorism is still terrorism even if it involves a white dude, the death penalty still sucks, class war and the widening divide in our two-tier society, the ongoing Gitmo hunger strike, the secret Bradley Manning pre-trial, crime dropping along with Stop and Frisk stops, Apple dodging enough in taxes to entirely cover the sequester, and the world’s first 3D-printed gun.
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Happy May Day! First American arrested under “Ag Gag” law, Bloomberg accuses NYT of racism
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Happy May Day! Jamie is very excited about his birthday month, the first American is arrested under “Ag Gag” law, budget cuts hinder IRS from busting offshore tax havens, NYPD officers accuse their brethren of being lazy, Mayor Bloomberg is ridiculous, hospitals deport immigrants to cut costs, IDF says they’ll stop using white phosphorous, and the most cathartic thing you’ll watch all day.
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Talkin’ ’bout Islam and the definition of “terrorism”
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Allison and Jamie talk about Islam and read some comments from listeners about the definition of terrorism. Also, the global elites finally backtrack on austerity, Tim DeChristopher is released from jail, and the Boston Marathon bomber is charged.
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Margaret Thatcher is dead, mad tales from Denver
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Allison and Jamie discuss Margaret Thatcher being dead, Boston essentially re-segregating its schools, Jamie’s mad tales from Denver, and Newark students walking out to protest budget cuts.
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Doughnut-eating squirrel, UK’s harsh budget cuts, Kevin Ware and the NCAA
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Allison shares a tale of a doughnut-eating squirrel, discusses the UK government’s harsh budget cuts, and then Allison and Jamie talk about Kevin Ware and why you should hate the NCAA (and all of sport’s one-percenters) and laugh at Michelle Malkin and the KKK.
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DOMA, mass school closings in Chicago, worldwide effects of austerity, roastmaster Tim Pawlenty
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Allison and Jamie discuss DOMA, badass Edith “Edie” Windsor and her amazing love story with her wife Thea Spyer, how to be a better ally to our transgender friends, the Chicago Public Schools closing 54 schools, the privatization of education, self-immolations in Bulgaria, a people’s uprising in Cyprus, and the worldwide effects of austerity.
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Wall Street isn’t done screwing you, Part 1 of America’s Domestic Black Sites
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Allison and Jamie recommend a couple articles that you should definitely read this week: Sarah Jaffe on the Chained CPI nonsense and Washington’s commitment to austerity and Alexis Goldstein on the London Whale Fail and how Wall Street isn’t done screwing you yet. Then, Marc Kilstein (@MarcKilstein) brings you part 1 of his report on America’s domestic black sites: the tragic history of solitary confinement.
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On pet heaven, global austerity protests, #KXLFuneral, and badass Zerlina Maxwell
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Allison and Jamie discuss the concept of pet heaven, global austerity protests, Keystone XL pipeline protests, and badass feminist Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell).
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