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This week we have in depth interviews as well as dispatches from our Pacifica affiliates about how Americans are stepping up to the 2024 turnout challenge amidst serious voter suppression efforts in multiple states.
In the A Block, we speak with Haitian American members of 1199 SEIU Sandra Abegg, a registered respiratory therapist, and Claire Leon, an operating room tech. Abegg and Leon joined 3,000 protesters outside former President Trump’s Nassau Coliseum rally to protest his remarks accusing Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio of eating their neighbors pets.
While the corporate media fixates exclusively on so-called swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin there’s a lot to be learned by taking a closer look at a state like Iowa, where President Obama carried TWICE but Donald Trump also carried in two presidential elections.
Could a deeper dive into Iowa teach us something essential not just about that state but about our politics more broadly? We speak with Iowa expert Laura Belin, the publisher, editor and primary reporter for Bleeding Heartland, focused on Iowa politics. She is also the Statehouse reporter for KHOI Radio in Ames and co-host of the station’s “Capitol Week.”
In the C Block we hear from Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO which represents 2.5 million members from 3,000 affiliated public and private sector unions.
Cilento tells us what’s at stake for his 2.5 million members and their families in the upcoming election?
We close with campaign dispatches curated by Lisa Loving, with KBOO, community radio in Portland, Oregon from the Pacifica affiliates WSLR Radio, Sarasota Florida, WORT, Madison, Wisconsin, KEPW LP-FM Eugene, Oregon and the Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
