EQUAL TIME is where Vermonters talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—mothers opposing toxic pollution, workers fighting for decent jobs, nurses working for health care reform, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, and more.
Kate Logan, of Rights & Democracy, and Cathy Albisa of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), discuss the need for a broad discussion and organizing leading to the creation of A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities.
Peter Knowlton, General President of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), explains that Trump’s proposed tariffs are not an effective strategy for reviving American manufacturing jobs.
Investigative journalist Nomi Prins, and author most recently of All the Presidents’ Bankers and Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, explains why the U.S. remains in a precarious economic situation, as does the world. Financial bubbles pervade the world.
Brenda Siegel, a low wage worker and small business owner, explains why Vermont should raise the minimum wage now to $15 an hour.
Lois Weiner, professor of education at New Jersey City University on the editorial board of New Politics, and author of The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice, and West Virginia Teachers Are Showing How Unions Can Win Power Even If They Lose Janus, and Dan La Botz, who teaches in the Labor Studies program of the Murphy Institute, co-e