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“Occupy Love” Documentary Asks “Can Crisis Be Turned into a Love Story”
Velcrow Ripper and Paul Jay discuss Ripper's new film and movements, power and the synthesis of spirituality and politics.

240,000 Turkish Workers Join As Mass Protests Reach More Than 67 Cities
Confederation of unions, stage two day strike in solidarity with protestors, against police brutality and for a more democratic Turkey

Economic Update: Labor, Unions and Crisis
Updates on corporate globalization, Philly schools, paid vacation law(?), the Cadillac Tax. Interview with Stanley Aronowitz on labor, unions and the left. Responses to listeners on higher ed economics …

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Received Letters Poisoned With Ricin, and More
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the non-profit group he founded called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, each received a letter containing the deadly poison ricin.

Hancock’s Reaper Drone; Remote Control There and Here
Ed Kinane: "As Hancock wages its cowardly wars on the people of Afghanistan and on Upstate Drone Action, we will persist in exposing the drone war crime in our …

Economic Update: A Journalist’s Perspective
Updates on changing US retirement ages, Pope Francis's anti-capitalism, inequality inside countries, unionists march in Rome.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senator Leads Fight to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act, and More
Apple CEO Tim Cook was questioned in a Congressional Hearing about his company's complex scheme to avoid paying taxes; for a third year in a row, the average CEO …

New Era for Labor: Creative Defiance From the Factory to the Street
Wages arel at rock bottom while unemployment remains high. No wonder people are embracing new tactics.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: US Retailers Are Refusing to Help Stop Slave Labor, and More
US retailers are refusing to help stop slave labor.

Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets
Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable.