{"id":12282,"date":"2017-09-01T17:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T00:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2017-09-04T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T03:54:16","slug":"we-interrupt-your-labor-day-picnic-with-news-about-labor-bradcast-912017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12282","title":{"rendered":"We Interrupt Your Labor Day Picnic with News About Labor: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_logo_mixer.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, guest hosted by me, Angie Coiro of In Deep, we start out with a round-up of headlines. Among the fun:<\/p>\n<p>More confirmation of voter disenfranchisement in 21 states, apparently aided by Russian meddling.<\/p>\n<p>From Politico, how Mick &#8220;The Knife&#8221; Mulvany used Donald Trump&#8217;s ignorance of exactly what Social Security is to get him to propose Social Security cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Two more cases of police brutality; one cop already off scot-free, a second apparently a law unto himself.<\/p>\n<p>Then &#8211; appropriate to the season  &#8211; we spend time with Sarah Jaffe, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/necessarytrouble.org\/\"><em>Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt<\/em><\/a>. She&#8217;s got an all-encompassing update on labor issues around the US. Surprise: organized labor is at least as popular as our &#8220;president&#8221;! The paperback edition of her book is out in November.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, excerpts from an <a href=http:\/\/indeepradio.com\/podcast\/august-17-2017-james-forman-jr-locking-crime-punishment-black-america\/>hour long conversation<\/a> with James Forman, Jr., author of <a href=https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780374189976\/><em>Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America<\/em><\/a>. We touch on black Americans&#8217; influence on the justice system, Charlottesville, the Confederate flag, and of course Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/Bradcast_AngieCoiro_SarahJaffe_JamesFormanJr_090117.mp3>Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230; <\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/Bradblog.com\/audio\/Bradcast_AngieCoiro_SarahJaffe_JamesFormanJr_090117.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, guest hosted by me, Angie Coiro of In Deep, we start out with a round-up of headlines. Among the fun: More confirmation of voter disenfranchisement in 21 states, apparently aided by Russian meddling. From Politico, how Mick &#8220;The Knife&#8221; Mulvany used Donald Trump&#8217;s ignorance of exactly what Social Security is to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,675,811,479,390,28,981,1026,148,771,73,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afl-cio","category-bradcast","category-civil-disobedience","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-election-reform","category-mick-mulvaney","category-nazis","category-new-york-times","category-race","category-voting-system-certification","category-washington-post","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}