Episode 221 with Karen Lewis and Sarah Jaffe

Coming up on today’s show, we have the President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, here to discuss Rahm Emanuel's war on public education in Chicago.

We also have journalist Sarah Jaffe back on the show to discuss how a union in Oregon using collective bargaining talks to go after the big banks that wrecked the economy.

We'll also discuss 19 people getting shot at a Mother's Day Parade in New Orleans, the DOJ secretly getting journalist's phone records at the AP, how we've passed the dangerous carbon milestone of 400 ppm and what that means for our species.

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