Adam is sounding increasingly like a Chapo host lmao

see the documentary Red Hollywood (1996) for background on the HUAC red scare.

In this public News Brief, we detail the strange quadrennial tradition of acting like the US is "abandoning" its alleged principles by reaffirming decades-long alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

News Brief: Biden's Dictator Tour and the Tedium of Our "Human Rights Concerns" Theater

Chances are you’ve seen this storyline play out on either a big or small screen: An FBI agent investigates a prominent labor leader. Or maybe a union boss orders a hit on a recalcitrant member of the rank-and-file. Or perhaps a union president skims money off a pension fund to make an illegal loan.

Plotlines like these derive from one of Hollywood’s longstanding and most favored tropes: the corrupt, mobbed up union, and more specifically, the corrupt union boss. It lends itself to countless stories: The rise and fall of a Mafia-backed labor head, the rebellion of rank-and-file workers against their tyrannical leadership, the precarious union on the verge of implosion. Accordingly, over and over again, we’ve seen stories of labor unions entangled with extortion, bribery, blackmail, theft and murder.

But, even if union bosses can make compelling characters, why is it that they must all be corrupt mafiosi? Why is it that heroism in pop culture is overwhelmingly the domain of police, attorneys and doctors and hardly ever people fighting for labor rights and the collective power of their co-workers and communities? Why, instead of highlighting the courage of labor organizers and the life-changing protections won, must Hollywood repeatedly emphasize only unions’ historical ties to organized crime and a seamy underbelly of corruption, murder and intrigue?

On this show, part one of a two-part episode on labor depictions in Hollywood, we explore organized labor and unions in film and television, how these pop depictions inform broader public sentiment about unions. And next week, we’ll discuss some of the more positive portrayals of labor and unionism in film and television.

Our guest is writer and organizer Ken Margolies.

Ep 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Plot Cliche

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
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After briefly and respectfully exploring the Israel twitter AMA, Anders interviews Mikey from the Oahu Water Protectors about the struggle to close the Red Hill underground fuel facility in Hawaii.

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Red Hill Madness w/ Mikey

This week we get into a bit of melungeon and diet talk, and then turn to a new entry in the Getting The Goods segment

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Anders talks to labor writer Jonah Furman about the ongoing rail strike. But first, some good vibes.

JONAH FURMAN
@labornotes
jonah@labornotes.org
https://www.labornotes.org/author/5777/content

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Yeeeeaaaaahhh w/ Jonah Furman

Podcaster from Death Panel and co-author of the new book Health Communism, Beatrice Adler-Bolton joins us to discuss capitalism's role in HEALTH, disability activism, the healthcare industry and MORE. Also we talk about Biden and trains.

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@realLandsEnd
@DeathPanel
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Health Communism w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton

This week: Elon Musk's car is a boat, Florida is destroyed, Jair Bolsonaro may or may not have done a funny dance

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Bathroom Radicalism

We went to the NYPD's Nu-Metal ass Haunted House.

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House of 1000 Porkers w/ Andrew Hilary & Brad Pearson

In this News Brief, we talk about local TV news, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal's breathless coverage of so-called "fare evasion" and how our media decides which theft to care about and which to ignore.

News Brief: DC Media's "Fare Evasion" Meltdown

We talk to Pascal Robert from This Is Revolution about the current situation in Haiti but first we talk about something much dumber.

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You Haiti to See It w/ Pascal Robert

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Ep 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Plot Cliche

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