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9:15pm Gabe Morgan of SEIU 32BJ on Philadelphia Education and why everyone in the region needs to get to their rally on Wednesday
9:40pm Richard Askey, Harrisburg music teacher on Senate Bill 1450 and the future of education in PA
10PM Lisa Evans of Earthjustice on why we need to make sure toxins don't cover our communities
10:30 Ben Santarris on the SolarWorld decision by the Obama administration to tarriff Chinese solar. Was it enough?

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Friday:

Tonight we'll be talking AUSTERITY with Dave Johnson of the campaigns for America's future. So we can prepare for Netroots Nation we're doing 1 hour live and playing the best austerity coverage from the week. Note the 2nd and 3rd hours have commercials due to piecing them together before putting them into the podcast. We apologize for any confusion.

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Exclusive Coverage of the PA AFLCIO Convention

03/30/2012 - 8:39am

For those who missed our coverage, check out individual segments(still uploading) on our Special Features Page. Right click to download our full pod casts:

March 29th featuring Pat Eiding, President Philadelphia Central Labor Council, Frank Snyder, Secretary Treasurer of the PA AFLCIO, Lou Coppolino of SMWIA 19, Kevin Upshaw, Security Guard in Philadelphia, and Valerie Owes, Worker at SugarHouse Casino on the companies union busting.

March 28th featuring PA AFLCIO President Richard Bloomingdale, Reverand David Bollack ,Jim Savage, USW 10-1 ,Dean Showers, USW 6996 ,Zach Hause, PA Central Labor Council ,Jerry Oleksiak, Vice President, PSEA ,Lorenzo Canizares, Organizing Specialist for the PSEA

March 27th featuring National AFLCIO President Richard Trumka, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Emeritus Bill George, Kathy Black, The Coalition for Labor Union Women, Kim Patterson, Secretary Treasurer for SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania on the private prison industrial complex attempting to further snake it's way into Pennsylvania, Mickey Sgro of the PA Central Area Labor Federation, and Darrin Kelly of IAFF Local 1 on the attacks on firefighters and why we see a traditionally republican voting bloc starting to vote for labor issues

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Fight back against Verizon

03/23/2012 - 7:57pm

Tell Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam: Stop Being Greedy

Voter suppression continues here at home

03/09/2012 - 12:10pm

On March 7, 2012, the Senate of Pennsylvania passed the Voter Suppression Bill (House Bill 934) by a vote of 26 to 23.

Tell your house rep to stand their ground. Email them and BE SURE TO CALL!

Tom Corbett: Have a heart

02/15/2012 - 1:01pm

A year ago today

02/14/2012 - 10:56am

I tweeted this. We've succeeded. Where we go from here is anyones guess.

RT @RickSmithShow If we dont respond to #WIGov harder than we did to #PATCO we might as well pack up our bags and go home. It'll be over #1u

— We Party Patriots (@WePartyPatriots) February 15, 2011

ATU Pres. Hanley on transportation in American

02/13/2012 - 1:41pm

The Pa Budget season begins

02/07/2012 - 1:43pm

Today the PA Budget season began with Tom Corbett's job killing budget. Occupy Harrisburg along with Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Pittsburgh held a Funeral for Fairness and hoped everyone would live in peace and solidarity! Maybe Tom Corbett can do that instead of promoting class war?

99 Santas put Sen. Pat Toomey on the Naughty List

12/08/2011 - 4:09pm

Today 99 Santas put Sen Pat Toomey on the Naughty List for not extending UI. Around Christmas how can Toomey throw 1.8million Americans to the curb?