As Trump Cuts WHO Funding, Socialism Shows Another Way is Possible
In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Margaret Flowers, Co-Founder of Popular Resistance Director of the Health Over Profit for Everyone Campaign, to talk about President Trump's announcement that he's halting funding for the World Health organization, whether such a decision is even legal given that the funding was authorized by an act of Congress, and why virtually the entire global community is demanding Trump reverse course.
In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Susan Klimczak, Education Organizer and Fab Lab Director at the South End Technology Center in Boston, and Clinton Osula with the Fab Inventor’s Lounge, to talk about how the partnership between the South End Technology Center and the Party for Socialism and Liberation is helping to design, 3-D print, and distribute much-needed Personal Protective Equipment to front-line healthcare workers, how their work allows for independent community aid networks to ensure vital supplies and groceries get to those affected by the crisis, and how their efforts to offer on-the-job STEM education is providing meaningful opportunities in systematically marginalized communities.
In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Helen Yaffe, Visiting Fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre and a Lecturer in Economic and Social History in the University of Glasgow and author of the new book "We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World," to talk about Cuba's efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus throughout the Caribbean and beyond, what's motivating the mainstream media push to frame Cuba's vital international medical brigades as agents or victims of 'totalitarian communism', and why the crisis demonstrates the need for a centralized resource distribution system based around human need and not profit.
Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, to talk about where Elizabeth Warren's endorsement of Joe Biden fits into the larger push by establishment Democrats to crown Joe Biden presidential nominee, whether Joe Biden has any real hope of generating high levels of Black and progressive voter turnout, and whether the coronavirus crisis is likely to force a fundamental and irreversible shift in political consciousness.