Pennsylvania Sierra Club Chapter Chair Veronica Coptis joins us to talk about why the Sierra Club is in the Fight for 15, and why economic justice struggles are hand in hand with environmental justice in our nation s coal fields. Laura Wiens, Director of Community Outreach at The Union Edge, reports back highlights from the 2016 Labor Notes conference in Chicago, IL, and the 20,000 person CTU strike and march. Reporter Theo Meyer from POLITICO joins us to discuss his article, Inside the Freedom Caucus Growth Plans, about the extreme right-wing fringe of the GOP's election tactics this upcoming November.

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