Listen: Striking Back at Amazon; ‘Christian Discovery’; and More…
NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán [far right] is pushing for passage of the Delivery Protection Act in an effort to help tame Amazon’s institutionalized exploitation of “last mile” workers.
By Bob Hennelly
On this episode of what’s going on, New York City Council Member Tiffany Caban (D-Queens) makes her case for her Delivery Protection Act— legislation that she says will prevent the exploitation by Amazon of workers who are the final link to home deliveries. Currently, the global behemoth maintains these workers don't work for it but for so-called Delivery Service Partners that act as subcontractors shielding Amazon from its responsibilities to keep safe the workers it relies on.
Caban also explains how she got her pro-labor worldview growing up in a union household.
John Kane, nationally recognized Mohawk activist, filmmaker and author joins us to unpack the role of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in helping to rationalize the genocide of the Indigenous People here in the Americas. John, whose Resistance Radio is heard on WPFW and WBAI, traces how the several hundred year old doctrine endures to this day in 21st century U.S. court decisions that perpetuate a white supremacist worldview.
John also joins our weekly Moral Monday Regional Dispatch this week from Birmingham, Alabama with guests Rev. Carolyn Foster, a deacon at the St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama and universal healthcare access activist Virginia Hutchison.
Foster and Hutchison discuss their work with Rev. Dr. Willima Barber's Poor People's Campaign to hold accountable their U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-AL) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) who both voted for the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" that strips healthcare from 15 million Americans to fund tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest families and multinationals.
Hutchison describes how her own struggle with finding and maintaining access to affordable healthcare has prompted her to become an activist for universal healthcare.
In the first hour, we hold our weekly current affairs roundtable with James Henry, Yale Global Justice Fellow and Dr. Joe Wilson, labor historian. Jim and Joe are joined by New Jersey social and climate justice activist Paula Rogovin.
We also speak with Mark Mori, producer/director and Bob Judson producer/cinematographer about their film project Baristas vs. Billionaires which chronicles how a few young workers willing to fight for a living wage in Buffalo founded Starbucks Workers United that would grow to include over 600 union stores employing 12,000 union workers.
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