'BradCast' 5/5/2022 (Guest: Jordan Zakarin of Progress Report and More Perfect Union)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Barack and Michelle Obama released an eloquent and important statement this week addressing the leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that overturns Roe v. Wade, ending a woman's constitutional freedom to have an abortion, and mandating forced pregnancy even in cases of rape and incest. The Obamas focus on the un-enumerated freedoms enshrined in the 14th Amendment, 'that allows us to enjoy a sphere in our lives that isn't subject to meddling from the state,' and how those rights, established through decades of precedent, are all now vulnerable to dismantling by the GOP's packed-and-stolen Supreme Court. The Obamas urge Americans to take action, including by voting to elect officials committed to protecting all of our rights. Working Americans are standing up for themselves and organizing to establish new unions at huge, anti-union companies like Amazon and Starbucks. JORDAN ZAKARIN, publisher of the Progress Report newsletter, discusses this hopeful surge among working class Americans, from both the Right and Left, standing up for their labor rights and uniting for better wages and working conditions. Zakarin explains what is driving the momentum in labor organizing; the outcomes of several recent unionization votes in several states; the million-dollar union-busting tactics launched by big corporations; the improving state of federal labor law and enforcement under the Biden Administration; and more. Also today: Big Oil just had its most profitable quarter in history, thanks to war profiteering and raising prices on consumers while pretending it's 'inflation'.