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COVID, Race, and Democracy: Stephen Sefton

Mar 07, 2023: 7pm - 8pm
*Laid-off Facebook food service workers in Menlo Park demand equality and severance pay. *The Oakland Institutes Policy Director Frederic Mousseau discusses a report on The Takeover of Ukraines Agricultural Land by Western capitalists. *A strike by a local of the Amalgamated Transit Union in suburban Washingtons Loudoun County, Virginia is now in its eighth week with pressure building. Thomas ORourke (WPFW) reports. *A report from WSLR (Sarasota, FL) on Manatee County debate over "bias in public libraries". *The US has refused to restore Ethiopias preferential trade status unless it submits to an international investigation of human rights violations during the Ethiopian civil war, which ended in December 2022. Ann Garrison reports. *A series of events in a number of Latin American countries have left observers scratching their heads as they try to determine the actual political orientation of the government in each case. Don DeBar spoke with Journalist Stephen Sefton about recent developments in a number of countries with supposedly leftist governments that are appearing to stand with the US on some issues, but not others.