Socialist and former Seattle City Councilor Kshama Sawant is now running against Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, who has backed more military funding and wars abroad. She spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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The ILWU Local 10 had a stop work meeting and shut down all ports in Northern California on May Day. They and other workers spoke out at a labor rally at their hiring hall in Oakland and on the streets of San Francisco during a May Day March.
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Monadel Herzallah of the US Palestinian Communities Network and Labor for Palestine shared a May Day message of solidarity with Palestinian workers on WBAI-New York’s Building Bridges. He spoke with host Mimi Rosenberg.
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Next we hear voices from a rally outside the U.S.Supreme Court on Monday, April 27th, where German chemical giant Bayer sought immunity from liability for harm caused by its widely used pesticide Roundup. Roundup is manufactured by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Its active ingredient glyphosate is suspected of causing numerous cancers among agricultural workers and others exposed to it.
Bayer’s lawsuit seeks to void all lawsuits brought against it by plaintiffs in state courts and send them to federal courts, a legal strategy that could result in billions of dollars of legal judgments being thrown out and plaintiffs being forced to either give up or start the legal process all over again.
Although glyphosate has been replaced by other chemicals in a Roundup formulation for residential home use, it is still widely used in large scale agriculture and industry.
This segment is courtesy of WPFW-Washington DC’s On the Ground, hosted by Esther Iverem, which aired it on Friday, May 1st.
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Music:
RICH PEOPLE by CARSIE BLANTON – Official Live Video
Internationale Palestinian Arabic
