there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of flaws but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. earl earl a major reason for the concentrated honest fanatic attack on unions are organized labor as they are democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights closer popular rights generally.

and that it interferes with the prerogatives of our of those who own and manage inside. i should say said and a union sentiment in the united states among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major societies in every space. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. her number that the us has a lawn very violent labor history his. society. had been very strong about the 1920 s. . period not unlike today who is virtually crushed robert reich.

by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. the dozen or is felt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is to go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the packard pressures fish and i'll be able to through the legislation you know i am not for

a were. killed last definition of a day and hour which. is a freebie blow well being gradually regimented. friendly deal. i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial but bitter activism. there were industrial action there were the sit down strikes which are very frightening 2. 100 ships. have to recognize a sit down straight is just one step before saying we don't need bushes we can run this by ourselves. and business was told to read the business press a. in the late thirties they were talking about the hazard facing industrialists

and the rising political power of the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force. test courtly a. tourist start any quality in labor management. and of course the ism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to illegally break urbanizing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated continued the ninety's and of course with george

w. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. none if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you're back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution in the united states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded the wage labor as not very different from slavery and a different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well i was

a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege it's good to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple who gives the orders who follows them that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to creating consumers it's a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the united states and

the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control of population by force too much freedom in one. labor organizer in parliamentary labor party as in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had to have other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists there stand blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate a want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say 920 s.

it talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like fashionable consumption and alkie matter here. you find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual folk but walter lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy in which his view is exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. there to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the advertising industry just exploded. with with this as its goal fabricating consumers.

and it's done with great sophistication. many whilst down. as one of the last known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of the ideal is what you actually see need to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon we'll go walking in a shopping mall. the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your television set or maybe now you in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with

trying to get education and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if you've ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a television ad would consist of say general motors putting up information saying here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs a football hero you know an actress or the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make

irrational choices that's what advertising is all about. and when the same institutions p.r. . system runs elections they do it the same way. they want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational truisms go off against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas takes place. right after the election. president obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and was reported here if you go to the international business press executives were euphoric you know they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. but when she mocks the much she calls the hopi

changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of poesy issues and for very good reason because public opinion is sharply disconnected from what the 2 party leadership and their financial backers want. more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. who is a public being marginalized. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic development only.

very. time to sit down and talk. well you know the thing we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small ball it's next to the hard pool of ships and it's. not common and. the little self to be told fish already 90 percent of the dot and it won't be calmer. concept 15 scoops $75.00 tons true and they do it several times a day with a big fleet so no you get an idea on why the ocean is full which. we have to understand we can all stay still and just. be witness of the

deal going to the hours. i'm doing this because i want the future world to the future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. joined me every flows on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks

. we dare to ask. one of the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes and the wood moment see what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. but they might as well be and some other country. and the population knows. what it's led to is

a population that angry frustrated and i hate institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to this. there is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people to hate and fear each other and look at only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on april 15th. april 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different the if

a society is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and. activities that they have formulated agreed upon to be better than the solution celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power you know has nothing to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can they keep from doing . that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not her attractive picture.

the tendencies that we've been describing within american society unless they're reversed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. a society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathies or their e.b. to a sport in which they're going driven out. that society is so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and that lead to

maximize personal gain at the expense of others any society made a small society based on that principle is a good way to control. a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. john dewey the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control no we will not have

a functioning democratic society. as he put it poesy will be the shadow cast by business over a society. that's centrally true. where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them they are not self justifying they have to justify themselves and their burden of proof to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves if they can't we ought to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice way dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years

but we'll thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change is because lots of people are working all the time and you know they're. working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. one of the real achievements of american society it's the 1st in the world in that it's not the bill of rights it's time that the constitution the freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was a case of going civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular movement which was demanding rights. refusing to back down and

in that context the supreme court did establish a pretty high standard freedom of speech or it takes a women's right to women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he'd go their people to join with them well that's her right to return. to a non-trivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism camilla doesn't show up publicly but you know the show not terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects draws in air. which are going to have to be corrected by operating outright that is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways to put it right. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the army carrying out proces

based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate process. that you have agreed to try to do things you learn you learn that with the world it's like that. feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. there's huge opportunities it is a very free society still good for his world. government is very limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's a lot to be done if people organise struggle for the right susan is done in the past and can win many victories commune. close friend for many years later cowards in. to

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so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. that you'd like to be close this is what before 3 of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters about how. there should be more. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision that has shattered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped and i'll be instructed here you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he graham my arm and he write me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women. have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s.

military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended i had an almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's man or when.

the headlines are not see the taliban movies with more american deaths after donald trump cancels afghan place talks on u.s. soil. american special envoy for middle east peace resigns leaving current israeli palestinian plans in the hands of a less experienced successor we assess what that means for the region. it's time for the palestinian authority to pony up and get with the program so that they can achieve the type of independence that israel can have the type of the rights and security that the jewish people so much deserve in this part of the world so it's a win win win win situation in the middle east is quite simple and it starts by putting the occupation in the historic waste.