WE HAVE OUR EYE ON THE TRUTH
Eleanor Goldfield is the director of a new documentary on the struggle of people in West Virginia – Hard Road of Hope. She also co-hosts the Common Censored podcast with Lee. They discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, the abuse of journalists by US police, the abolition of the police, her documentary, and more. …
One of the best positives of this crisis is that the US labor movement is filled with actions. There have been more than 170 labor actions since the beginning of March according to the website Payday Reports. We’ve also learned that the most essential workers are the people earning the least money in massive corporations. …
The rise of smart cities is a tool in the mass surveillance toolbox. These technologies will be used to invade our privacy and even though they’re being put in place in order to create a robust response to the coronavirus pandemic, history has shown us that when the ruling elite get new toys to undermine our freedoms, they won’t let them go without a fight. …
Lee sits down with Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. They discuss how the US failed in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the growing cohort of working people who’ve been dubbed the ‘precariat’ because of their precarious employment, what people can do to help limit this crisis, and how foreign countries such as India and Cuba are handling it. …
