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This week’s episode discusses Oklahoma cutting funds for public schools, why Americans don’t take the paid vacations that are owed to them and how fossil fuel companies fight green power companies to buy politicians. Also included is an interview with Lisa E. Davis, author of Undercover Girl, about undoing the New Deal, paid FBI informants and the destruction of the Communist Party USA.
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