it is thursday october NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN my name is emma viglund and for sam cedar and this is the five-time award-winning majority report we are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged gowanus canal in the heartland of america downtown brooklyn usa on the program today catherine todricks author of black snake standing rock the dakota access pipeline and environmental justice meanwhile kirsten cinema is taking a well-deserved vacation euro trip well let's be fair she's an all play and no work she is jetting off to europe in the middle of infrastructure negotiations that she's obstructing to fundraise so kind of a wash in case you're wondering yes she can still legally fundraise abroad if u.s nationals are paying the checks uh meanwhile progressives are holding the line on medicare expansion in the reconciliation bill at least it appears that way with jayapal publicly declaring her caucus's commitment to the addition of dental hearing and vision the program because they see it as the best path towards medicare for all so that's good this comes as pressure increases to slash the NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollar proposed paid leave program of the bill to NUMBER_TOKEN billion in order to appease the almighty cinema mansion that new figure is enough for three to four weeks of leave not close to the NUMBER_TOKEN weeks the biden administration propose as the global supply chain remains bottlenecked biden has announced that he has struck a deal to keep the portion of uh or sorry the port of los angeles open NUMBER_TOKEN hours a day seven days a week in order to break the log jam interior secretary deb holland announced plans to build wind farms across the entire u.s coastline from maine to the gulf of mexico to the carolinas to oregon and california and lastly over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN unionized john deere workers have gone on strike starting today after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract proposal this comes as over a thousand kellogg workers are striking as well as sixty thousand iot film and tv workers starting next week this is a historic moment for labor in this country all this and more on today's program a welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen we have a great show for you today as always sam is out on thursdays so i am steering the ship not into the port of los angeles which i apparently could now because it's open NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. that's very convenient for me um but more that's a way for the bind administration to try to break this bottleneck that i understand financial news channels and fox news is having a field day with a lot of this is just the reality of coming out of the pandemic and the production the production issues that also are entangled with global capitalism and what happens when you have a mass crisis like coronavirus yeah when you shut down the economy and let the monopolies eat right exactly these are some of the this is some of the fruit that you're going to bear now i want to talk about these john deere workers striking because as i mentioned before we are living through a historic moment for organized labor perhaps the the biggest moment for organized labor in NUMBER_TOKEN years for decades union density has been on the
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