Loading...(2011/02/21) Journalist Johann Hari on corporate tax dodgers and dispatches from Wisconsin’s union protest
Episode #240 Journalist Johann Hari talks UK Uncut, US Uncut, and decides who he’d rather fight: David Cameron or Nick Clegg. Also, Godless Maniac Joseph Thoennes reports from Madison, Wisconsin about the protests and spirit of solidarity in the Capitol.
Beforehand, Allison and Jamie dispell some myths about the Wisconsin protests and unions (http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/479560/12_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_uprising_in_wisconsin/,) and offer some advice about how to stick to your Progressive ideals when your friends are being little assholes about it.
Much like Tunisia’s influence on Egypt, the spirit of Wisconsin appears to be spreading with the murmurs of uprising in Indiana due to some deceptively named “right to work” legsilation.
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