Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
Enemies of the people do not become heroes of the people just because Trump dislikes them and they dislike Trump. “Mueller is a pig agent of the ruling class.”
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one.
The Trump Justice Department seems to be preparing to do what the Obama Justice Department would not do: put Julian Assange on trial.
How do Americans, especially white Americans, appear to the rest of the world, and are they really as “nice” as they think they are?
Trump is not bringing fascism to America, but rather, fascism was built into the American project from day one.
