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“Fight Oligarchy”: Bernie Sanders Calls Out Trump, Musk, & Billionaires in Politics During WI Rally
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“Fight Oligarchy”: Bernie Sanders Calls Out Trump, Musk, & Billionaires in Politics During WI Rally

Laura Flanders & Friends is on the road, following Bernie Sanders on his “Fight Oligarchy” Tour. Thousands of Americans showed up to his latest rally, but we’re virtually the only media here. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and stay tuned for more coverage. We’re on the ground in Warren, Michigan for Bernie Sanders’ next rally on Saturday: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lg?sub_confirmation=1 Sanders spoke to over 3,000 attendees on Friday, March 7, 2025 in Kenosha, Wisconsin at the De Simone Arena on the UW-Parkside campus. Among the featured guests were Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-02), who spoke to the crowd and introduced Sanders; and musical artist Laura Jane Grace. Follow us on social media for more coverage. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lauraflanders.org Laura Flanders & Friends is non-commercial independent media that relies on the contributions of viewers and listeners. DONATE TODAY at https://lauraflanders.org/donate/ or consider becoming a PATREON partner at https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriends CREDITS Videographer: Jonathan Klett Production Assistant: Madison Pecha CHAPTERS: 00:00 “We will not accept oligarchy” | Bernie Sanders explains why he’s on the “Fight Oligarchy” tour. Thousands of people have shown up, and there are a thousand more people in the overflow area. 07:30 “An addiction of greed” | Bernie Sanders calls out greed in politics and tax breaks for the 1%. What will happen after Medicaid and social security cuts? 14:11 “No cuts to the VA” | Bernie Sanders on his work as the former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 16:00 Bernie Sanders on the Department of Education & nutrition programs. 19:00 “They’re coming for your job” | Bernie Sanders on Trump firing federal employees; AI and technology. 26:08 “He ignored every major issue” | Bernie Sanders reacts to Trump’s State of the Union speech 35:25 "Zelenskyy is not a dictator, Putin is." 37:30 "No more tax breaks for billionaires" | Money in politics, Citizens United & Elon Musk intervening in Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. 44:05 "Despair is not an option" | The history of America's winning movements. 50:12 No more funding for Netanyahu government. 52:00 Bernie Sanders' message to Wisconsin and the nation.
Not Party to Party Politics: Movement Leaders Consider Election ‘24 [Socialism 2024 Conference]
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Not Party to Party Politics: Movement Leaders Consider Election ‘24 [Socialism 2024 Conference]

Stay informed and engaged! Don't miss out on conversations that dive deep into our economy, culture, and politics. SUBSCRIBE HERE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lg?sub_confirmation=1 Abolition, decolonization, immigration, Palestine — how is the Left thinking about the future in this perilous political moment? Socialists and activists showed up in the thousands to this year’s Socialism Conference, a four-day event packed with discussion of today’s most pressing issues and strategies for organizing. Laura Flanders & Friends was there, in Chicago (just days after the Democratic National Convention) for a live taping with three renowned organizers: Nick Estes, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and author of “Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance” and co-founder of The Red Nation, an organization dedicated to Native liberation; Rachel Herzing, an organizer, activist, and advocate fighting the violence of surveillance, policing and imprisonment and co-author of “How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment”; and Harsha Walia, co-founder of No One Is Illegal, an anti-colonial migrant justice organization and author of the books “Undoing Border Imperialism” and “Border and Rule”. As you’ll hear, they’re not counting on politicians to step into office and grant their wishes. They’re focusing beyond the election cycle. Join us as we envision a liberated future and explore all that it takes to get there. Plus Laura’s commentary. “. . . Having Deb Haaland [serve as] the Secretary of Interior, has been good in the sense that we've gotten these really amazing reports on things that we've already known, that there was this massive systematic genocide of Native children . . . But at the same time, her department has overseen more oil and gas leases on federal lands than the Trump administration, and that's not an indictment of her as a person. That's an indictment of that department . . .” - Nick Estes “. . . We know in an election season that Black women get told we're the saviors of the entire world and everything relies on us, even though the rest of the time it's very happily that we're kind of left to die, quite literally. We are given this message on a regular basis, and I don't know what to say to people about that. The policies of the so-called United States are not life-affirming policies for Black people, for imprisoned people, and for people living as women.” - Rachel Herzing “I just think that the strongest counterforce to fascism and anti-colonialism is an organized Left. It is not a candidate . . . Sometimes I think we get fixated on what candidates will or won't do, and we don't think about the conditions that the Left can create to actually make those possibilities happen . . .” - Harsha Walia GUESTS: Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe): Author, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, & The Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Rachel Herzing: Co-Author, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment; Former Co-Director, Critical Resistance Harsha Walia: Author, Border and Rule & Undoing Border Imperialism; Co-Founder, No One Is Illegal 🎧 PODCAST: Listen to this week's episode on podcast platforms: https://lauraflanders.simplecast.com/episodes/not-party-to-party-politics-movement-leaders-consider-election-24 Visit https://bookshop.org/shop/lauraflandersandfriends for books featured in this episode. (*LF&F is an affiliate of bookshop.org and will receive a small commission if you click through and make a purchase.) Laura Flanders & Friends is non-commercial independent media that relies on the contributions of viewers and listeners. DONATE TODAY at https://lauraflanders.org/donate/ or consider becoming a PATREON partner at https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriends. Find this week's show notes here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114186745?pr=true 🔔Subscribe to get weekly episodes that prompt you to think critically about the world around you. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to hit the 'Like' button and share it with your network. 📩Newsletter: For more in-depth analysis, including uncut interviews and commentaries, subscribe to our free newsletter at lauraflanders.org. 🎧LOOKING FOR UNCUT INTERVIEWS? Patreon subscribers help us make our full, uncut conversations and audio extras free and available to everyone! Join our growing family today! patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriends Executive Producer: Laura Flanders Supervising Producer: Sabrina Artel Senior Producer: Jeremiah Cothren Senior Consulting Producer: Rory O’Connor Senior Video Editor: David Neumann Video Editor: Veronica Delgado Audio Director: Jeannie Hopper Development Director: Sarah Miller Communications Director: Janet Hernandez Technical Creative: Nat Needham Thumbnail image courtesy of Socialism 2024.
THE THIN BLUE WAVE | The Republican Convention & Kamala Harris come to Milwaukee - Election 2024
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THE THIN BLUE WAVE | The Republican Convention & Kamala Harris come to Milwaukee - Election 2024

The 2024 Presidential election is in full swing and Milwaukee is at the center of it. This film chronicles the election season this summer. We follow people as the Republican National Convention comes to town, and Kamala Harris drops in for a visit. Local workers, organizers, and protesters speak about the convention, the city, the election, and the effects policies will have on labor and community. A Liminal Films and Washington Park Media Center Production Made in Milwaukee by Milwaukeeans Produced, Shot, Edited, Directed by Jonathan Klett Featuring: Brandon Wolf - National Press Secretary of Human Rights Campaign Kelley Robinson - Human Rights Campaign President Pam Fendt - Milwaukee Area Labor Council President, AFL-CIO Peggy Wirtz-Olsen - President of Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) Angela Lang - BLOC, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities Executive Director Nathan Kieso - Milwaukee Area Labor Council Executive Board Dayvin Hallmon and the Black String Triage Ensemble Alan Chavoya - Outreach Chair - Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression Coalition to March on the RNC Kayla Patterson - Students for a Democratic Society Audari Tamayo - Students for a Democratic Society Halo Hisel - International Indigenous Youth Council Fernanda Jimenez - Immigrants Rights Organizer Kamala Harris Ann Ward - Teacher Jane Foley Doctor Christine Mosore Dr Jackie Edwards - Physician Assistant Cheryl Angel - Water Protector | Sicangu Lakota Jarrett English - Political Director at Voces de la Frontera Photos provided by Voces de la Frontera Photos - creative commons Photo - dairy farm worker - Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch Aerial Cinematography - Joel Van Haren Music - William Ryan Fritch and "What Now of Paradise" by Drop Electric Made with support from Laura Flanders and "City Works" at the City University of New York School of Labor & Urban Studies @washingtonparkmediacenter @tankthink.media @mkelaxmedia @cunyslu @cityworkstv @lauraflandersandfriends @sds_uwm @marchonrnc2024 @_iamjackie @humanrightscampaign @luvbuzzbby @brandonjwolf @kelleyjrobinson @asapdari10 @okiciyapi1995 @voces_milwaukee @mkelabor_malc @angelamlang @wisdems @fiservforum @blocbyblocmke @nationalsds @harleydavidson @molsoncoors @lakefrontbrewery @pabstblueribbon @iiycfamily @milwaukeealliance @myweac @fernandajimenez @kamalaharris @vp @senatorbaldwin @afscme @afscmelocal526 @christinemosore @jjorel
What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades
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What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades

Ticketmaster and Live Nation have destroyed the concert experience. But it didn't use to be this way. Today, Oasis and Taylor Swift tickets might go for thousands of dollars, but back in 1955, you could see Elvis Presley in concert for less than the modern-day equivalent of $20. We investigated further and found ticket stubs from the biggest acts between 1970-1989, and they all cost around $45. Now you’re paying exorbitant service fees and indie venues are getting squeezed, all because two corporations gobbled up the industry. So how did they do it? Watch our full deep dive into the history of concerts over the last 70 years and how corporate greed turned one of the most populist forms of entertainment into a luxury good. Additional reading: https://prospect.org/power/ticketmasters-dark-history/ https://www.economicliberties.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240104-AELP-Livenation-Brief-FINAL.pdf ----- More Perfect Union’s mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective, and we attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power, and we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems. We're an independent, nonprofit newsroom. To support our work: - Help fund our reporting: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mpu-splash - Substack: https://substack.perfectunion.us/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorePerfectUS - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectunion/ - Threads: https://www.threads.net/@perfectunion - Website: https://www.perfectunion.us

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