bugga back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour chicago mayor rahm emanuel is not up for the city's teachers' strike and wants to use legal action of course teachers and school workers to go back to work oh man you'll get his wish in the courts will fight for better wages and better public schools march on in the windy city also you think a strip clubs in the lap dances you think of fine art well some people think a lap dance is artful as a monet painting or a box concerto but is it really or legally and if i go by wall street has shown us anything over the last year is that a grassroots movement can catch fire and create a national dialogue so how do we keep the occupy movement from flaming out i'll tell you in tonight's daily.

in screw news the chicago teachers strike is now entering its second week and will likely continue until least tuesday teachers have asked for more time for their members to review a new tentative agreement with the city meanwhile chicago mayor rahm emanuel threatened legal action of force striking teachers back into the classroom classrooms that are lacking air conditioning school supplies counselors nurses and even libraries while the labor struggle in chicago continues workers secured a big victory in wisconsin at the end of last week it was constant county judge on friday struck down governor scott walker's controversial anti collective bargaining law ruling that a violates both the state and federal constitutions as judge juan cole last wrote in his ruling regarding the anti collective bargaining provision it will single out encumber the rights of those employees who choose union membership and representation soley because of that. and therefore infringe upon the rights of

free speech association guaranteed by both the wisconsin and united states constitution so this really highlights how not only is the war on workers a ploy by republicans to redistribute wealth of the very top but it's also completely unconstitutional so what's the big picture what's the big mean between these two ongoing labor struggles in america here to offer his take is josh eidelson. freelance journalist and contributor to salon and in these times josh welcome back thanks for having me back tom josh what do we know about this tentative agreement is it a win for the teachers. well it's clear that the school district is offering much more than they were a week ago and so the strike has caused some major concessions from rahm emanuel who no one sees as a pushover based on the information released but released by the union which is more extensive than what's come out from the district they've seen significant movement on wages there is an agreement but to have fifty percent of the

hiring when some schools are closing in others they're opening up the from the pool of people who are laid off and the teachers have made progress in some of the teaching and learning conditions that they talked about like six hundred school art and sports and so on instructors who would be hired now whether it's good enough. the membership has today and tomorrow to decide and the vote that took place yesterday of the house delegates and larger elected body of the union was to take forty eight hours and talk to the thousands of teachers in an on strike about whether this is good enough or whether they're going to stay out of this for more it's you know in some ways this is not just the sins of the emanuel administration much of the started with the daley administration both in our daily and mary manual are democrats what do you make of the divisions within the democratic party and then you know arnie duncan as well and he's now in the secretary of education and

none of these guys have an education background they're all powerful politicians arnie duncan in charge of education policy nationwide what do you make of the schisms in the democratic party that this strike has as revealed so i argued in salon that the strike really exemplifies the division of the democratic party and we're in a moment where earlier this summer in the council of mayors the democrats unanimously backed parent trigger which is a scheme to go around collective bargaining and replace union schools often with nonunion schools here we have as the protagonist. rahm emanuel who just went from being the chair of obama's campaign the main front raiser for his past arny's dunkin created race to the top along with president obama himself and it's striking that when mitt romney tried to argue that obama was somehow siding with the union rahm emanuel's response was to say i'm glad that obama race to the top because race

to the top and then devises many of the kinds of so-called reforms that are on the table here now at the same time a lot of rank and file democrats don't believe that making it easier to fire teachers is the solutions to improve education at the elite level you have i think many more people lining up in the obama some in manual positions then in the more progressive position of saying we should actually be taking on teacher retention and taking on poverty as ways to improve education. what the schism in the democratic party how do you expect this is going to play out how's it going to how is the democratic party going to be different a couple of years from now as a consequence of it or well and happy. well over the last week i've been talking to some of the leading critics of the main stream education reform movement all of whom have said they see an opportunity here and i think what we've seen over and over from people pushing the line and waiting for superman for example from critics

of teachers unions is saying nice things about teachers bad things about unions and not really acknowledging that there are rank and file teachers that there are masses of rincon file teachers who actually take issue with this prescription that the way to improve education is more charter schools and less job security and less voice for teachers i mean in illinois the so-called reformers got through a law which actually narrows what the teachers are able to bargain about which makes it harder for the teachers to push for improvements in the learning conditions so over the next couple years this is coming to a head we see it right now that's part of why the obama administration would like that straight to be over it puts obama in a difficult position it puts democrats around the country in difficult position and it's been striking how few national democrats have been willing to commit and support union i think it's i'm sorry finish is what i think the first step before a reckoning in the democratic party though may be a reckoning within some of the national teachers' unions in there in chicago has

been willing to be much more aggressive and much more critical both towards democratic politicians and towards the charter movement than the national union so far has been and if they become more aggressive that may force a sharper confrontation with the democratic party the inner city chicago schools. the average cost to educate a child there's a thousand dollars a year that's that's what's that those are the resources given to them in the suburban schools right around chicago it's twenty three to twenty four thousand dollars per student per year are we back where lynn and johnson was in the war on poverty isn't it time for those kind of numbers to be front and center. rather than testing teachers we have a little less than a minute charge absolutely and i think in some ways the reason that we see teachers blame the reason we see unions blame is because a lot of people in the elite class in this country have given up on the idea that

we could integrate schools integration has moved backward have moved back on the idea that we can fully fund schools and so there is this vacuum where it seems politically impossible to provide the funding and provide the programming to make equal education a reality and so instead it's easier to beat up on the teachers than to fight for redistribution in terms of resources and in terms of national priorities and so that in the vacuum of that kind of perverse asian teachers become the scapegoats you know isn't isn't a time for that kind of conversation to happen is nobody pushing that i'm not hearing that from any side when you're hearing it from c.t. you in chicago and they've put out a quite dramatic platform called the to the schools chicago's students deserve which talks about the fact of apartheid in their words and chicago tops for a major redistribution of resources talks about the crisis in class size there the fact that schools are an airconditioned that people can't even get their textbooks they're talking about it and they're offering an alternative not by saying that

they also want to make it easier to fire teachers but they want to do it in a more moderate way but offering a real contrast in what it would take to make good on the promise of education gets equal education for everybody in the united sates josh thanks so much for being with us and thank you tom. just. it's the good the bad and the very very end x. . bilious li li the good people of the world on friday u.n. officials told a conference in geneva switzerland that the ozone hole over the antarctic will be smaller this year than it was last year fishel is also said that this goes to show

how a ban on harmful substances like c.f.c.'s has helped to stop ozone depletion the ban on chemicals like c.f.c.'s was initiated with the signing of the montréal protocol twenty five years ago un weather expert gear botham told the reporters at the geneva conference that the ban has quote prevented a major environmental disaster and globally ozone depletion has leveled off and quote so what's the bottom line here despite what republicans in washington will tell you. climate change is very real and it can also be curbed directly through human action is a lot of work to do to save our environment it's time to get started. the bad congressman peter king i am he says meet the press yesterday king told david gregory that president obama's orders to withdraw troops from iraq and end the war there brought on last week's embassy attacks in the middle east take a look. my view was a large component of it is going to this president's policy president obama's policy has been confusing it's been apologetic and it's been this guy that he day

you started is apology to about in two thousand and nine when he was a matter what people say apologizing for america somehow suggesting that we didn't incite islamic so he became the president throughout fact that you talk about iraq we took our troops out of iraq without even getting is that it's a boys and women you're going to go i pat. iraq and yet need to pull the troops out regular out the pact the troops are out you definitely if you have not now what are you doing by that is telling our allies that kim broke with king's promotion of the rights apology tour a lot i aside president obama withdrew troops from iraq because he recognized it was time to end of the most on necessary war in american history and let's not forget iraqi officials our allies wanted u.s. troops to leave leaving iraq is not what caused last week's violence in the middle east and the very very ugly newsweek moving on from congressman king's outrageous comments to an outrageous magazine cover this week's edition of newsweek released

today features a picture of muslims with a big bold title of mozilla brage after the attacks in benghazi last week we saw numerous images of libyans holding up signs in support of the united states and in support of what ambassador chris stevens was doing in the country in libya and that was no fluke despite what conservatives preach the majority of muslims are peaceful people who do not encourage violence against americans or anybody else and preach hatred and don't preach hatred of american idol. islamic radicals kill the bestor stephens' not all muslims just like a few radicals perpetrated the nine eleven attacks not all muslims as a nation we need to understand that the sins of a few should not be automatically placed on the many but apparently newsweek is only to cast that inaccurate and ignorant blanket statement and that is very very. after the break a year ago occupy wall street started

a conversation that this country sorely needed to have but the group's work is nowhere near done what is the key to making occupies message work in this country increasingly controlled by kleptocrats and. i'll tell you in tonight's daily take. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are on the day.

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sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know it you don't know and sometimes it's the firesign theater says everything you know is wrong and that you're you know you're right. to say that you're. being you go is. earlier this month the owner of a strip club in new york city went to the new york state court of appeals to argue that stripping is a form of art and as a result should be exempt from new york state sales tax but can we really label something that involves a woman dancing on a man while he shoves dollar bills in your underwear as art well if you think that there is no art involved in stripping then everything you know might be wrong

joining me now is sheila heydemann author of the book strip down a former strip tease artist chillum welcome thank you town i know you i'm fine stripping as art tell me about this. well you know i think i always approached stripping as an art and i think there was a handful of other dancers who treated the same way and i think stripping can absolutely be an art well you know to take this a little more seriously back during the victorian era ballet and gymnastics were actually ways that dirty old guy dirty old men could watch scantily clad women. flounce their body parts i mean literally ballet and gymnastics were for that purpose and or many would argue that to do you think that you know generations from now people will look back pole dancing or stripping or lap dancing or something as the logical extension of that. i think that there are really two different ways to

look at it i mean i think absolutely that a lot of forms of wimmin and scantily clothed costumes can be looked at. other than forms of art i mean i think a lot of different things and it goes beyond just stripping i really think it has to do with with the stripper or with the dancer with the performer because there obviously times when stripping is done just as a way to make money and obviously that's always in the back of the mind of a stripper as you are they actually make money but i think there is an attitude of some dancers that really goes into it doing it as an art and i think that yes it's possible that one day people will that back at this time and say oh you know that really was kind of artistic i'm sorry we can see that and then they'll be i think there's always going to be that the other side that says let's get real these are naked women gyrating on the stage for men for a dollar bills can that be art well i mean that's

a reasonable question there are filmmakers who have included nude scenes sex scenes . sometimes they're minimal in a movie sometimes they're front and center in a movie. sometimes i mean you know i remember when deep throat came out and the supreme court justice came out and a cardinal or a bishop or somebody came out so this is our of course this is our so we've kind of had that dialogue in america. is it is a going to continue or is it you know i think we're doomed to repeat this story i mean i think that there's always going to be this fine line there's always going to be a way to look at things like this as art i know for myself that i would rather that men went to strip clubs and saw women dancing in a strip club as opposed to like when i'm in a store and i see you know half naked women on covers of magazines where kids are around where you can see that and this image of women as being objects it's just so normalized at least in the strip club i feel it's taken away it's kind of put in

the special space and to me it just makes more sense it's you know people want to look at it as art and there are i think certain places like more like burlesque houses where it's treated more as an art where's the harm in calling it an arts well in the borough as causes of the twenty's and thirty's it really was performance art i mean it was and it wasn't quite stripping but it got awful close and got awful close that's true and i know that there are some burlesque clubs still left i know the last club i worked in was in new york city and try to back up and that was the whole big draw of it for me was it was called a burlesque out so we were allowed to do performance art as long as we ended up naked at the end so it was it was laced since to be weird on stage while you were naked basically and unfortunately that you didn't make as much money as you did in the ring regular strip clubs but you did have more freedom of expression which to me was a trade off do you think that burlesque is making a comeback or is

a more internet porn is the future of all this i think it's we're going to see both of both of these things continue i think that burlesque has keeps making comebacks . i think it will continue to do that because the female body the female naked body is a beautiful thing in that the way a woman may move her body or express herself sexually can be an art can be uniform to look at besides just a sexually gratifying in the moment kind of thing i think we can step back and see art and say wow that's just really beautiful so i think we're going to always see that side of it and i think we're also i don't see us ever getting away from the internet more and either i mean i think there are there are two different things so it's hard to say well we're going to call it one are not the other are and that's kind of where it starts to get sticky because now we know what if we have porn actresses then saying well this is art you know i mean so it is it's a fine line it definitely is show thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you so much tom. to understand the plight of the american middle class today.

to understand the plight of the american middle class that day you have to understand that a crime has taken place middle classes i'm dying today because of a random financial crisis in two thousand and seven triggering a deep and long lasting recession all of that happened to the middle class is dying today because of a decades long arguably criminal effort to rig the american economy in favor of the corporate elite and transfer a massive amounts of wealth from the vast majority of americans up to the top one percent and we're now in the final stages of this effort what i call the cancer stage of capitalism and more and more americans are

waking up to what's really happening progressive senate candidate massachusetts elizabeth warren spoke directly to this issue in her d.n.c. speech. do you feel like the system is rigged against them and here's the painful part. they're right. the system is very. look around oil companies guzzle they own billions in profits billionaires pay a lower tax rates than their secretaries. and wall street c.e.o.'s the same ones who wrecked our economy and just royd millions of jobs still strut around congress no shame demanding favors and acting like the we should thank them just anyone here have a problem with that. lauren is smart and like other smart americans she's a wised up to what's really happening in our nation which is the outright theft of

wealth of the middle class passing along the top one percent in a recent article published for alter net david de graw another smart american highlights each incident of theft against the middle class by the corporate elite there's the reagan tax cuts and destruction of labor unions beginning in the one nine hundred eighty s. the fuel that enormous pay gap between c.e.o.'s and workers so the thirty years ago c.e.o.'s made twenty five times more than their average worker and yet today much. and yet today make as much as five hundred times more than their average worker those same policies that result in the top one percent seen their share of national income triple over the last three decades while the bottom ninety percent have seen their share drop by twenty percent years of lobbying and outright bribery have rigged the tax code against working americans. forcing them to pay

a higher tax rate than members of the corporate elite like mitt romney and warren buffet not only that those higher taxes paid by working people they don't flow through the coffers of government to be reinvested to help the working class with better schools or social services or infrastructure instead that revenue goes straight to corporate treasuries in the form of bailouts on wall street tax subsidies the oil industries or giveaways to the for profit health insurance cartel for example the wall street bailout financed by taxpayers like you and me led to banks getting paid more than one hundred fifty billion dollars in bonuses just in two thousand and nine while we the taxpayers lost twenty five percent of the value of our four a one k.'s that same year the richest four hundred americans increase their wealth by thirty billion dollars giving them more wealth from the bottom one hundred fifty five million americans combined as you grow up points out that all of an article had our taxpayer money been invested in job creation rather than passed out as wall street bailouts five million americans could have been put back to work

earning thirty thousand dollars a year which that didn't happen instead more than fourteen trillion dollars was quietly passed out to wall street and corporate america trillions went to our for profit military industrial complex so they could profit from our never ending war on terror and not a single penny was reinvested in better education better health care better infrastructure or job creation for working americans and working americans really needed all that wealth that's been stolen from before bush americans spend seven percent of their income on food and energy today it's twenty percent working americans pay eight percent of their income on health care more than any other nation in the developed world and yet we get worse results. meanwhile the cost of housing for the middle class has gone up thirty four percent since bush so with all of these necessities are added together americans have to use their credit cards to

make ends meet and are forced to go deeper and deeper into debt since their wallets have been picked by the corporate elite as elizabeth warren said the game is rigged and if it wasn't a rig if wages for working people had continued to rise with productivity like during the truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter presidencies if the rich still pay their fair share in taxes and the reagan tax cuts it never happened and if wealth distribution in america had stayed on track with where it was in the carter in one nine hundred seventy s. in the middle class today would be thriving as de graw argues had the corporate elite not stolen so much money from us over the last thirty two years the average middle class income today would be above one hundred thousand dollars we'd be able to afford free health care for every american a four bedroom home for every american family free college for all we've been that much more productive and twenty first century roads bridges internet and public

transportation and we could also afford a five percent income tax rate moving forward for the bottom ninety nine percent of all americans the potential for all of those things i just mentioned was stolen by the corporate elite with the help of republicans ronald reagan both george bush's and their cronies in congress and smart people are waking up to this reality and saying that's it enough is enough which explains what rick santorum may have meant last week when he said this about support for the republican party we will never have the media on our side ever in this country we will never have. the elite smart people on our side. you're right read the smart people will never be on your side and that's the way it is tonight monday august seventeenth two thousand and twelve and don't forget the mockers he begins with you get out there get active today your.

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