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 Cityâs administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
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Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the cityâs Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops.
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.
This week the New Cold War and political prisoners were on your mind.
MOVEâs history is a reminder why police and prison abolition remain so urgent.
