Equal Time Radio
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -EQUAL TIME RADIO with Traven is where Vermonters, and indeed politically conscious people everywhere, talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—workers organizing at the workplace, our movements meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, nurses working for health care as a human right, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, progressives fighting for political revolution, a new generation organizing for democratic socialism, and more.
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Class Struggle and Social Justice Unionism, Reproductive Rights, and the US Constitutional Crisis
October 17, 2021 22:32 - 50 minutes - 46 MBVermont AFL-CIO Executive Director Liz Medina about building class struggle and social justice unionism. Sarah Birgé about Mobilizing to Defend Reproductive Rights. Dan LaBotz about whether the U.S. is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War? Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on September 28, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradi...
Working Class Legislative Agenda, Line 3, AFL-CIO Convention and Right to Self-Defense
October 17, 2021 22:28 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBTanya Vyhovsky proposes a Working Class Legislative Agenda for Vermonters. DSA member Carl Grey Martin talks about Stoping the Enbridge Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline. Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Vice-President Dwight Brown about Their Successful Convention and the Right to Self-Defense against Fascist and Racist Attacks. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on September 21, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor....
Climate Justice, Line 3, and Vermont's Climate Action Plan
October 02, 2021 22:21 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBJeremy Brecher on Making “Build Back Better” Better: Aligning Climate, Jobs, and Justice; Nancy Braus about the climate crisis, and the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline; and Vanessa Gray about Vermont’s Climate Action Plan and the Just Transition Community Conversations. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on September 14, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at...
Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen
September 05, 2021 17:06 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBVermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen talks about building union power, working class unity, and a Union led Green New Deal. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on August 30, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Union Organizing at Amazon with Peter Olney
July 03, 2021 21:13 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBUnion Organizing at Amazon with Peter Olney, former organizing director for the West Coast Longshoreman Union (ILWU). https://www.ilwu.org/ Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on June 28, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine and Biden's Rehabilitation of U.S. Capitalism
May 31, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBWafic Faour and David Finkel about Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine & U.S. Complicity; plus Ashley Smith about Biden’s Program for Rehabilitating U.S. Capitalism. Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (https://vtjp.org/) Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on May 18, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
May Day in Montpelier, Amazon and U.S. Labor Law
April 30, 2021 22:44 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBAndrew Tripp, an experienced lead union organizer, discusses reasons behind the union loss at Bessemer Amazon in the context of the anti-worker, anti-human rights regime of U.S. labor law. David Van Deusen and Liz Medina discuss May Day in Montpelier, the PRO Act, card check, and the working class history of May Day. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on April 20, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm...
Meagan Day on "Bigger than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism"
April 16, 2021 18:28 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBTraven interviews Meagan Day about the updated edition to her book "Bigger than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism", co-authored by Micah Uetricht. Meagan is a staff writer for Jacobin. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on April 6, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Affordable Housing in Vermont and Organizing in the 1930s and 1940s
April 01, 2021 18:16 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBBrian Pine about the lack of Affordable Housing in Vermont. Dan Fingas about building grassroots power in Vermont to win a jobs guarantee, universal healthcare, affordable housing, racial justice, and bold climate action; and Mike Goldfield, author of The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s about the potential significance of Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics ...
Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing and Thaddeus Stevens
April 01, 2021 17:20 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBDan LaBotz about Why Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing Could Be So Important for All Working People. Bruce Levine, author of Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, about the role of Vermonter Thaddeus Stevens in the dynamic trajectory of the second American revolution—an opportunity to remake the country as a true multiracial democracy. How the Civil War evolved, and why its aftermath was both so promising and so disappointing. Hosted by Traven Leysh...
Let's Grow Kids and the Origins of International Women's Day
March 17, 2021 18:07 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBAly Richards of Lets Grow Kids talks about the need for affordable, quality childcare.We revisit the origins of International Women’s Day. Hear some of topical singer David Rovics songs about Solidarity and COVID; and hear from the authors of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on March 9, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltim...
Bruce Levine on Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
March 13, 2021 15:33 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBBruce Levine, author of Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, discusses the role of Thaddeus Stevens in the dynamic trajectory of the second American revolution—an opportunity to remake the country as a true multiracial democracy. How the Civil War evolved, and why its aftermath was both so promising and so disappointing. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on March 10, 2021 Podcast...
Required Income to Live in Vermont, Affordable Childcare, and What's Next After the Pandemic Slump
March 12, 2021 21:09 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBPaul Cillo about how much income does a Vermonter need to live? Michele Asch on the need for affordable/quality childcare, and Ashley Smith about After the Pandemic Slump, What Next? Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on March 2, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
VT Progressive Party Priorities and Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era
February 28, 2021 13:57 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBRep. Selene Coburn discusses Progressives' Priorities for this Legislative Session and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler talks about The Lancet's Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era study. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) Music by David Rovics Recorded on February 23, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Unjust Traffic Stops and the Super Bowl
February 15, 2021 21:19 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBStephanie Seguino about the Trends in Racial Disparities in Vermont Traffic Stops and Their Broader Significance, and Omar Ocampo about the Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on February 9, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Renew Vermont, Teacher's Retirement, and Funding Education
February 13, 2021 19:01 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBKate Logan talks about the Renew Vermont Agenda for a Jobs-Green New Deal, Darren Allen about Addressing Funding Issues with the Teachers’ Retirement System, and Sen. Anthony Pollina about Using an Income Tax to Fund Education. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on February 2, 2021 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM ...
Pandemic Relief for Vermont, Vermont Renews, and Why Trumpism Will Endure
January 24, 2021 18:40 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBJulie Lowell about More Federal Pandemic Relief for Vermont, Kate Logan about Vermont Renews, a statewide grassroots agenda and coalition created to address the the state’s interconnected crises of racial injustice, climate change, mass unemployment, and the coronavirus pandemic, and Sam Farber on why Trumpism Will Endure. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on January 19, 2021 Podcast: https://eq...
State Wide Jobs Guarantee, Climate, and the America Dream
January 09, 2021 18:50 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWe hear from Rep. Brian Cina about an agenda for a statewide Jobs Guarantee to tackle mass unemployment, economic and racial inequality, the coronavirus pandemic, and climate change; and Dr. Jack Rasmus about What Happens January 6th, 20th & After?; and Jamie McCallum author of Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on January 5, 202...
State of Working Vermont and Reviewing Workers Struggles in 2020
December 30, 2020 14:42 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBStephanie Yu of the Public Assets Institute about how Vermonters are doing: the State of Working Vermont 2020. Dan DiMaggio of Labor Notes for 2020 in review: Workers Struggle Under the Weight of the Pandemic. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on December 29, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Jobs in Vermont, the Skimpy COVID Relief Bill, and Biden's Imperial Foreign Policy
December 29, 2020 21:22 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBStephanie Yu of the Public Assets Institute talks about Vermont Jobs and COVID. We review the skimpy COVID relief bill. And Ashley Smith previews Biden’s Imperial Foreign Policy. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on December 22, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Food Insecurity, a Regional Green New Deal, and Opposition to UVM Cuts
December 13, 2020 22:06 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBEmily Belarmino presents research on Food insecurity in Vermont. Kate Logan, of Rights and Democracy, discusses the Renew New England Alliance’s agenda for a regional Green New Deal with a vibrant regional economy. Professor Paul Bierman and student organizer Cobalt Tolbert talk about the huge opposition to UVM administrators’ plans to cut 23 programs from the university’s College of Arts and Science with further cuts to follow at every college. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by...
2020 Election and the Prospects for Coronavirus Stimulus
December 06, 2020 21:44 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBAaron Amaral on the 2020 Election: Where do we go from here? Dr. Jack Rasmus about the Prospects for Coronavirus Stimulus, the Economy & the Impending Loss of Unemployment Benefits & Paid Sick/Family leave for Millions of Workers, plus an Assessment of Biden’s policies and appointments. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on December 1, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: ht...
A Bold Vision for Vermont, the Non-Alternative of Biden, and What We Have Learned about the Far Right
November 18, 2020 21:08 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBProgressive Vermont State Rep. Emma Mulvaney-Stanak about why Vermont Needs a Bold Agenda to Address the Concerns of Working Vermonters and Hadas Thier about Why Biden and the Dems Should Have Buried Trumpism, But They Provided No Alternative and Chris Vials about What We Learned About the Far Right From Donald Trump’s Presidency. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on November 17, 2020 Podcast: h...
Anthony Pollina on Vermont Elections, Eric Blanc and David Finkel on Life after Trump
November 17, 2020 14:10 - 51 minutes - 47 MBVermont State Sen. Anthony Pollina shares the Progressive Party’s assessment of the Vermont elections and plans for the Burlington mayoral race. Eric Blanc says We Were Right To Celebrate Trump’s Defeat. Now We’ll Have To Stay in the Streets for the Next 4 Years, and David Finkel talks about After the Trumpster Fire. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on November 10, 2020 Podcast: https://equalti...
Actions to Defend Democracy, Chicago Teachers Union, and Presidential Politics
November 17, 2020 13:31 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBDan Fingas talks about Actions to Defend Democracy in the face of authoritarian threats. Jhoanna Maldonado of the Chicago Teachers Union discusses plans to defend a free and fair election, including the possibility of political strike action, and Kit Wainer’s his thoughts on A Very “American” Coup. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on Nov 3, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Ra...
School Taxes for COVID, Vermont’s Precarious Signs of Recovery, and the Power of Workers
November 03, 2020 15:36 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBPaul Cillo on why there should be no school tax increase for COVID shortfall, and Vermont’s precarious signs of recovery Liz Medina and David Van Deusen about Vermont Labor Action to Defend Democracy, and Jeremy Brecher on How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on October 27, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.co...
Affordable Health Care, the Danger of a Coup, and the Case Against Biden
November 03, 2020 13:02 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBState Auditor Doug Hoffer about OneCare Vermont and the rising unaffordability of healthcare. DSA’s Marianela D’Aprile about the danger of a coup attempt & defending democracy. Tom Harrison on why Trump is far worse than Biden, but Biden is no alternative. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on October 20, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Liste...
Defending Democracy from a Trump Coup & How to Fight the Far Right
October 18, 2020 19:47 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBDefending Democracy from a Trump Coup & How to Fight the Far Right with Joseph Gainza, Andrew Tripp and Ashley Smith. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on October 6, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Joe Allen on the Rising Threat of the Far Right
September 27, 2020 20:58 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBInterview with Joe Allen on the Rising Threat of the Far Right. https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/09/a-threshold-has-been-crossed/ Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on September 22, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
The National Guard, a Legal(?) Coup & the Far Right
September 27, 2020 13:46 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBEd Stanak about the Potential for Trump Using the National Guard Against Vermonters, Jack Rasmus about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death & Trump’s Emerging Legal Coup D’Etat, and Joe Allen about the Rising Threat of the Far Right. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on September 22, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM ...
Class Labor, Childcare, and Mass People's Party
September 20, 2020 22:31 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBVermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen discusses the need and program for a broad social justice, class struggle labor movement; Janet McLaughlin addresses the Challenges of Childcare During the Pandemic and Before; and Nick Brana talks about Launching a new Mass People’s Party. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on September 8, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https...
Vermont State Budget, Unions, and the Movement for a People's Party
September 13, 2020 14:57 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBAdam Norton about the Vermont State Budget and Revenue Forecast (https://mailchi.mp/vsea.org/wia-2020-248424#StrategicAnalyst), and Jerold Kinney about Building a Stronger, More Democratic State Employees Union (https://www.facebook.com/jerold.kinney/post/3411528592240109), and Omar Fernandez and Nick Brana about Launching a New Mass People’s Party (https://peoplesparty.org/). Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David R...
Schools, Police, and the Childcare Crisis
August 23, 2020 18:46 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBWe hear from Darren Allen about a Roadmap to Safe Reopening of Schools, and Kiah Morris about a Plan to Transform Vermont Policing, and Kate Logan and Daphna Thier about Meeting the Current Childcare Crisis. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on August 11, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/ Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM
Organizing for Safe and Equitable School Reopenings
August 08, 2020 17:46 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBWe talk with Isaac Kreisman of the Vermont School Workers Action Committee, a group of VT NEA rank and file members, organizing to insist that the government go much further to provide the resources to ensure safe and just school reopenings, and provide for our communities and working families through transformational Common Good demands; and Eric Blanc, DSA member and author of Billionaires Want to Reopen Schools Amid a Pandemic. They Might Unleash a Teacher Strike Wave. Hosted by...
Childcare and Pandemic Politics
August 04, 2020 18:58 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBJanet McLaughlin, of Let's Grow Kids, discusses the challenges of childcare during the pandemic. DSA members Sherry Baron, an epidemiologist and public health researcher, and Dan La Botz, a co-editor of New Politics magazine, reflect on the Pandemic, Depression, and Authoritarianism. Hosted by Traven Leyshon Produced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna Stimson Music by David Rovics Recorded on July 28, 2020 Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/ Radio: https://...