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 explains how she got her pro-labor worldview growing up in a union household.
John Kane, nationally recognized Mohawk activist, filmmaker, and author, joins Bob Hennelly to unpack the role of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in helping to rationalize the genocide of the Indigenous People 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 joins Bob for our weekly Moral Monday Regional Dispatch this week from Birmingham, Alabama, with guests Rev. Carolyn Foster, a deacon at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and universal healthcare access activist Virginia Hutchison.
Foster and Hutchison discuss their work with Rev. Dr. William 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.
In our B Block we spoke with Mark Mori, producer/director, and Bob Judson, producer/cinematographer, about their film project Baristas vs. Billionaires that chronicles how a few young workers willing to fight for a living wage in Buffalo founded Starbucks Workers United, which would grow to include over 600 union stores employing 12,000 union workers.
