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.
We talk with Kate Gold, President of VSCS-United Professionals at Northern Vermont University, and Tanya Vyhovsky of Rights & Democracy about the Vermont People's Bailout: COVID Virtual Town Hall, and Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, joined by Ashley Smith of Champlain Valley DSA, about the
Economic analyst Doug Henwood warns that This Downturn Could Be Worse Than the Early 1930s, but it’s also an opportunity to emerge from this crisis as a better country. Meagan Day, co-author of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democra
Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen puts forward the actions that the Vermont AFL-CIO is demanding be taken to combat COVID-19 and the looming income crisis for working people
Jack Rasmus, author of The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Trump, discusses the global financial asset deflation underway: prelude to next great recession and the impact of COVID-19 on the working class.
Dan Fingas on Raising the Minimum Wage & the Case for Paid Family Leave, and Daniel Denvir, author of All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It