A Detroit community demands a new Amazon warehouse meet job and environmental guarantees; Amazon workers in Alabama fighting to unionize. Community activists and union organizers Tonya Myers and Frank Hammer on theAnalysis.news
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Massive Actions by Indian Workers and Farmers Against Government – Jayati Ghosh
The Indian government is pushing austerity rather than stimulus and using the pandemic as an opportunity to introduce policies they thought would go through without much opposition - but that's not what happened. Jayati Ghosh joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
Progressive Cathy Kunkel Running for Congress in West Virginia
In a West Virginia district that's been Republican for 20 years and Trump carried with 68% of the vote, environmental activist Cathy Kunkel is running on a progressive platform including Medicare for All. She might even win. She joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
Why stocks are soaring even as coronavirus cases surge, at least 20 million remain unemployed and the US sinks into recession
Throwing cash at the problem seems to help – investors at least. elenabs/Getty Images
By Paul Jay
We know the names of many black men killed by police, but we should also know of Rodney Todd and his seven children, dead because he couldn't afford an electric bill.