Co-host attorney Stephen Rohde is joined by returning guest Chuck Zlatkin, legislative director of the New York Metro Area Postal Union. They discuss the role of U.S. Postal Service during national elections and especially under a controversial postmaster chosen during the Trump administration.Will there be delays in mail in ballots, potentially effecting vote counts in this close election?
Co-hosts Heidi Boghosian and Michael Smith then speak with two of the three authors of the book titled Abolition Labor: The Fight To End Prison Slavery. The details of forced prison labor aren't well known. A shadow slave economy operates in the secrecy of more than 1,800 prisons. The 13th amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, but it made one exception: prison labor. Hosts talk with authors Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and Aiyuba Thomas from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.