Mon, 25 June 2012
This week on The Breakdown, Richard airs a panel discussion on the financial reform that he participated in at the Take Back the American Dream Conference along side New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and leading homeowner rights activist, Tracy Van Slyke. Next, Richard speaks with Medea Benjamin, founder of CodePink, about her efforts to stop the United States predator drone bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) talks to Richard about why progressives should line up behind Democrats in November--and push them to make the right decisions in the struggle over fiscal policy in December. Finally, Richard hears from Ethan Rome, Executive Director of Health Care for America Now, a national group that helped pass the Affordabel Care Act and is now helping defend it. Rome affirms that regardless of the Supreme Court's decision about the constitutionality of the individual mandate, Health Care for America Now will continue to fight with grassroots pressure across the country to preserve and strengthen health care reform. |
Mon, 4 June 2012
This week on The Breakdown, Richard breaks down the week's biggest economic and political developments--from how government austerity is keeping unemployment high to the latest on the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election. In the news clips, this week Mayor Bloomberg announced a new program banning large-sized soda. The benevolence of the Mayor's dictatorship is continuing, and it means that you can't carry a 20 ounce Dr. Pepper. Richard also examined the upcoming gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker has a plan to divide and conquor the unions, forgetting that the union members are citizens and taxpayers of the state of Wisconsin as well. Richard also addressed the jobs report and President Obama's reaction to it, and how the GOP controlled Congress has done nothing to return construction workers back to work. Richard spoke with David Dayen of firedoglake about the economic climate, including a conversation about the direction the government should take, echoing the concern about the Democrat's lack of a good economics plan. While the Republican's economic plan is extreme, when compared against no economic plan it may win out. Speaking of the Wisconsin recall election, which is taking place Tuesday, June 5th, we have interviews this week with Melissa Ryan of the New Organizing Institute, who is on the ground in Wisconsin for the election, as well as Amanda Terkel of the Huffington Post, who has been covering the election. They offer some very interesting insights into the election and how Scott Walker has been undermining the livehoods of his constituents. To wrap up this week's episode of The Breakdown, Richard had an opportunity to talk to two leaders of the Home Defenders. The Home Defenders are organizing homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages. Since 15.7 million homeowners owe more on their homes than they paid for them, this is a huge political block that could have a loud voice in the upcoming election.
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Sun, 13 May 2012
Richard has an in-depth conversation with Nobel Prixe-winning economist and New York Times coumnist, Paul Krugman. Krugman says that the solutions ot our economic problems--massive fiscal and monetary stimulus--are obvious, but the political means to get us there are not. Despite all of our politicians' failures, Krugman is optimistic that the American people will demand change, and that this dark chapter too will pass. Richard also talks about getting ejected from the Bank of America shareholders' conference in Charlotte, NC and shares some of his conversations with #Occupy protesters who joinedh im at the Bank of America convention. |
Mon, 7 May 2012
Richard pays tribute to late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (MCA) and breaks down the week's news with Executive Producer Daniel Marans. Richard speaks with Robert Borosage, Co-Director of the Campaign for America's Future, about building a progressive movement that both helps elect Democrats and holds them accountable to progressive priorities. Richard also speaks with Professor Jim hawkins of the University of Houston Law Center about the shortcomings of the Obama administration's CARD Act credit card reform, and Alice Fordham, Middle East correspondent, about the effects of sanctions on Syria and the Assad regime, and the state of human rights in post-US occupation Iraq. |
Mon, 30 April 2012
Daniel Marans, Executive Producer of The Breakdown, offers a tribute to Levon Helm, the great American rock and roll musician, who passed away recently. The tribute includes songs from Helm's star career as drummer and vocalist for The Band, songs from his renaissance album Dirt Farmer in 2008, and running commentary from Marans. In the second half of the show, Richard talks with Trudy Lieberman of the Columbia Journalism Review about the media's distorted coverage of Social Security. Richard also speaks with Zaid Jilani of the Republic Report, a running guest on The Breakdown, about the latest on money in politics. They discuss the exodus of companies from the "stealth" corporate lobbying group ALEC, the recently exposed Wal-Mart bribery scandal, and the mammoth pharmaceutical industry's lobbying to preserve a lucrative tax break. |
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