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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear McKesson v. Doe. The case involves a police officer injured during a Black Lives Matter protest after the police murder of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La in 2016. The injured police officer sued the organizer DeRay McKesson for damages. Last year, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the officer. The Supreme Court, for a second time, declined to hear the case.

The impact of the Supreme Court's decision to decline to hear the case is potentially devastating for organizers of mass protests.



In our latest, Scott talks with movement lawyer Maggie Ellinger-Locke about the case and the precedent it may be setting up.





Bio//
Maggie Ellinger-Locke, she/her, is a movement lawyer based in the Washington DC area, living on the stolen land of the Anacostan and Piscataway peoples. She works for the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law, where she helps train the next generation of movement lawyers. Previously she worked as a staff attorney at Greenpeace USA, and has also worked in public policy and private practice. She is currently co-chair of the DC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
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Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody

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+Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Black Lives Matter organizer
facing damages suit (https://bit.ly/3xNTh5K)

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Forest defenders have launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. Community members are opposing the Poor Windy timber sale, which targets thousands of acres of mature and old growth forest.

Scott gets an update from two forest defenders fighting the timber sale. They talk about the campaign, community support for the tree-sit and how forest defense is climate defense.


Bio//
Grace (@sorisingtide) and Ratdaddy (@TreeSitUnion) are forest defenders in Southern Oregon.

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Outro- "Anthroposcene" by Fire Your Boss



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+Oregon community members stage tree sit-in over plans to log over
14,000 acres of forest (https://bit.ly/3vV1CUI)
+BLM Responds to Heightened Pressure as Tree Sitters Celebrate Two Weeks
of Continued Occupation (https://bit.ly/49E8Pqe)
+ Tree Sitters Union on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/treesittersunion/

+ Fire Your Boss (https://bit.ly/3Q8FwFj)


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In our scrappy Tax Day episode, we get right down to it.

We get into the anniversary of the publishing of "The Grapes of Wrath" and its significance on America and the American Left.

We discuss how your tax dollars are subsidizing war profiteers like Lockheed Martin and keeping the war effort in Gaza going while paying for healthcare and public education in Israel. (Meanwhile America's masses are left to fend for themselves.) Scott also talks about a recent direct action at a Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale, CA and the violence perpetrated by the company's employees when they were blocked from parking their cars in the company parking lot.

We also discuss O.J. Simpson's legacy on race and politics in America, and NPR's "liberal bias" (and its discontents).

All this and your weekly dose of radical history.
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Bob had a great conversation w/ Mike Elk of Payday Report, a frequent G&R guest. They spent most of the time discussing the current UAW unionization drive in Chattanooga, how this election is different than previous failed votes in 2014 and 2019, and the prospects for labor in the coming months. They also discussed his time in Brazil, and the challenges Lula faces. And finally, Mike, who was always wary of Fetterman, politely declines an "I told you so" moment but lays out why the junior senator from Pennsylvania isn't really a progressive.

Donate to Payday Report to cover Chattanooga union vote: https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-u...

Payday Report: paydayreport.com

"After the Pandemic and the Stand Up Strike, Everything Changed at Volkswagen in Chattanooga"
https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pa...
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Yanis Varoufakis's new book provocatively argues that Capitalism is dead and has been replaced by a new group of wealthy people whom he calls Technofeudalists--Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. This new ruling class, whom he calls the "cloudalists," rules over all of us, and even other capitalists, like feudal lords ruled over vassals.


Bio//
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader, and the author of numerous bestselling books. He was the finance minister of Greece in 2015. His latest book is "Technofeudalism What Killed Capitalism."
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Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody

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+ Yanis Varoufakis: Technofeudalism What Killed Capitalism (https://bit.ly/4cILk1J)


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The bosses have long pitted workers against those fighting pollution, extraction and the climate crisis. As the climate crisis worsens, labor unions and environmentalists have begun to build important new alliances to challenge the power of capital and industry. In the new anthology, "Power Lines," co-editors Jeff Ordower and Lindsey Zafir discuss the challenges and successes of this growing labor-climate movements.

In our latest episode, Scott talks with Jeff Ordower (@moredower) and Norman Rogers (@NormN3D) about the prospects of enduring relationships between labor and climate movements. We discuss just transition, how the bosses often attempt to turn workers against calls for climate action, and how false solutions like nuclear and carbon, capture and storage fall into this landscape.

Bio//
Jeff Ordower is the North America director of 350.org. Prior to joining 350, he was a co-founder of the Green Workers Alliance and a member of the Rising Tide North America collective. He’s the co-editor (with Lindsay Zafir) of Power Lines (The New Press), he lives in Philadelphia.

Norman Rogers is the Second Vice President of United Steelworkers, Local 675
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Outro- “Green and Red Blues” by Moody

Links
+Power Lines: Building a Labor–Climate Justice Movement (https://bit.ly/3VAhZRe)


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