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Welcome to Ring of Fire Radio, I’m Sam Seder.
This is a special edition of the podcast, while we travel to New Orleans for this year’s Netroots Nation. We will be bringing you special interviews from the conference on next weeks show. Today you’ll hear interviews from my recent trip to the American Federation of Teacher’s Conference held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I sat down with national and local union leaders to speak about the state of teacher unions due to recent rulings by the Supreme Court and why strong teacher unions are the key to better education in our country.
Suzanne Mettler, author of the new book, “The Government-Citizen Disconnect,” will join us to discuss the Trump Administrations plan to rebrand social programs as “welfare.”
Heather “Digby” Parton and I will discuss all the major headlines from this week.
David Dayen, will join us to discuss his new piece detailing employee abuses at one of the largest banks in the world.
Heather “Digby” Parton and I will discuss all the major headlines from this week.
Karl Frisch, from Allied Progress, will be here to explain how private equity firms have a new way of monetizing poor people.
Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to breakdown all the headlines from the week.
And Harvard Professor, Khalil Gibran Muhammed, will join us to discuss how the Alt-Right is using social science to make racism seem respectable.
And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to run down all the big news stories of the week
Dahlia Lithwick, from Slate, will join us to discuss this week’s SCOTUS rulings and Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement.
Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to breakdown all the big news stories from this busy week.
Zoë Carpenter, from The Nation, will join us to discuss the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance policy towards immigrants and she’ll describe her recent visit to a border patrol facility on the Texas border.
Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to breakdown all the big news stories from this busy week.
Scott Lemieux, from “Lawyers, Guns, and Money,” will be here to explain a couple of crucial rulings by the Supreme Court recently.
Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to breakdown all the big news stories from this busy week.
The Founder of American Progressive Voices, Mike Lux, will join us to discuss his new book, “How to Democrat in The Age of Trump.”
Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to breakdown all the big news stories from this busy week.
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Today on the show
Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to run through all the major headlines from this week
And Nation Contributor, John Washington, on the effect that ICE is having by separating families from children.
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