Equal Time with Carl Etnier & Traven

Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, discusses her book "WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them" about the retirement crisis and proposing a plan to guarantee retirement security for every working citizen.

VPIRG’s James Moore on need for funding all-fuels efficiency and a comprehensive energy plan

Earl Mungeon, Vermont IBM worker, and Alliance@IBM/CWA coordinator Lee Conrad hit management's latest firings of 180 at Essex Junction plant,more nationwide, and impact on communities.

Longshoremen shut down 29 ports to protest the war. Bay Area longshore leader Jack Heyman explains. Jobs with Justice spokesman Paul Bigman in Seattle describes this historic action. Vermont labor activists celebrate May Day and solidarize with longshore action.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin on their new book,Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Towards Social Justice. Joined by VT workers Center's James Haslam.

Economist Robert Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute on the relative impacts of military spending vs. public investment on our economy and job creation

economist Jack Rasmus, author of THE WAR AT HOME: THE CORPORATE OFFENSIVE FROM RONALD REAGAN TO GEORGE W. BUSH on "Is the Economic Crisis Over - or Just Beginning?"

Amjad Al-Jawhary of the Iraq Freedom Congress Working For a Democratic, Secular and Progressive Alternative to both the US Occupation and Political Islam in Iraq

Fred Azcarate, Voice@Work director for AFL-CIO, explains the decline of the middle class in the face of the employers' offensive against workers freedom of association. Workers rights are human rights. The campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

Prof. Bill Grover and David Finkel, editor of Against the Current magazine, discuss electoral politics, real change, and social movements today.