EQUAL TIME is where Vermonters talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—mothers opposing toxic pollution, workers fighting for decent jobs, nurses working for health care reform, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, and more.

The Plot Against Pensions & the Plan to Save Them

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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.

Burning Need for Reponsible Leadership for Energy Efficiency


18:14 minutes (7.31 MB)

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

More Firings at IBM


30:01 minutes (12.03 MB)

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.

May Day 08 Labor Action to End the War


32:17 minutes (12.93 MB)

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.

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Towards Social Justice


36:57 minutes (14.8 MB)

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.

Robert Pollin on The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities


22:47 minutes (9.13 MB)

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

Is the Economic Crisis Over - or Just Beginning?


21:44 minutes (8.71 MB)

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?"

Iraq Freedom Congress Speaks against Occupation & Political Islam


25:53 minutes (10.37 MB)

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

The U.S. Workers Rights Emergency


23 minutes (9.28 MB)

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.

Obama, Progressive Change & Independent Politics in 2008

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

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