Bread & Roses Too

04/08/2026

Todd Chretien on Aiming for Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: MAGA Before the Elections
Trump’s approval ratings are dismal, and the MAGA base is showing some cracks, but we should not underestimate their capacity to hold on to power through brute force. Centrist Democrats’ nostalgia for neoliberal normalcy is not enough to stop Trump 3.0.

And Ramy Khalil on How Working-Class Resistance Forced ICE Out of Minneapolis
A new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026.

Challenges of Beating Trumpism * Working Class Resistance to ICE & Building May Day Strong https://podcast.show/3957103/episode/153793379/
Todd Chretien on Aiming for Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: MAGA Before the Elections
Trump’s approval ratings are dismal, and the MAGA base is showing some cracks, but we should not underestimate their capacity to hold on to power through brute force. Centrist Democrats’ nostalgia for neoliberal normalcy is not enough to stop Trump 3.0.
And Ramy Khalil on How Working-Class Resistance Forced ICE Out of Minneapolis
A new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026. https://podcast.show/3957103/episode/153793379/

04/08/2026

Challenges of Beating Trumpism * Working Class Resistance to ICE & Building May Day Strong https://podcast.show/3957103/episode/153793379/
Todd Chretien on Aiming for Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: MAGA Before the Elections
Trump’s approval ratings are dismal, and the MAGA base is showing some cracks, but we should not underestimate their capacity to hold on to power through brute force. Centrist Democrats’ nostalgia for neoliberal normalcy is not enough to stop Trump 3.0.
And Ramy Khalil on How Working-Class Resistance Forced ICE Out of Minneapolis
A new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026. https://podcast.show/3957103/episode/153793379/

10/05/2021

Jeremy Brecher on Making “Build Back Better” Better: Aligning Climate, Jobs, and Justice; Nancy Braus about the climate crisis, and the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline; and Vanessa Gray about Vermont’s Climate Action Plan and the Just Transition Community Conversations.
https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/episodes/climate-justice-line-3-and-vermonts-climate-action-plan

09/06/2021

Vermont AFL-CIO President on building union power, working class unity, and a Union led Green New Deal
https://share.transistor.fm/s/5d963f0d?fbclid=IwAR0c0L6DDtnKdK_7UuziUxaDJDeAIW-2LD_7D_QywZB9YJ9Q4FjBGpYP80k

Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen talks about building union power, working class unity, and a Union led Green New Deal.

09/01/2021

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05/31/2021

Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine and Biden's Rehabilitation of U.S. Capitalism
Wafic Faour and David Finkel about Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine & U.S. Complicity; plus Ashley Smith on Biden’s Program for Rehabilitating U.S. Capitalism.

EQUAL TIME RADIO with Traven is where Vermonters, and indeed politically conscious people everywhere, talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—workers organizing at the workplace, our movements meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, nurses working for health care as a human right, st...

04/30/2021

May Day in Montpelier, Amazon and U.S. Labor Law
Andrew Tripp, an experienced lead union organizer, discusses reasons behind the union loss at Bessemer Amazon in the context of the anti-worker, anti-human rights regime of U.S. labor law. David Van Deusen and Liz Medina discuss May Day in Montpelier, the PRO Act, card check, and the working class history of May Day.

EQUAL TIME RADIO with Traven is where Vermonters, and indeed politically conscious people everywhere, talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—workers organizing at the workplace, our movements meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, nurses working for health care as a human right, st...

04/02/2021

Dan LaBotz about Why Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing Could Be So Important for All Working People. Bruce Levine, author of Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, about the role of Vermonter Thaddeus Stevens in the dynamic trajectory of the second American revolution—an opportunity to remake the country as a true multiracial democracy. How the Civil War evolved, and why its aftermath was both so promising and so disappointing.

EQUAL TIME RADIO with Traven is where Vermonters, and indeed politically conscious people everywhere, talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—workers organizing at the workplace, our movements meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, nurses working for health care as a human right, st...

04/01/2021

Brian Pine about the lack of Affordable Housing in Vermont. Dan Fingas about building grassroots power in Vermont to win a jobs guarantee, universal healthcare, affordable housing, racial justice, and bold climate action; and Mike Goldfield, author of The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s about the potential significance of Alabama Amazon Workers Organizing.

EQUAL TIME RADIO with Traven is where Vermonters, and indeed politically conscious people everywhere, talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—workers organizing at the workplace, our movements meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, nurses working for health care as a human right, st...

02/28/2021

Rep. Selene Coburn discusses Progressives' Priorities for this Legislative Session and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler talks about the The Lancet's "Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era" study.

EQUAL TIME RADIO with Traven is where Vermonters, and indeed politically conscious people everywhere, talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—workers organizing at the workplace, our movements meeting the challenge of the climate crisis, nurses working for health care as a human right, st...

02/02/2021

Looking forward to having Professor Stephanie Sequino on Equal Time with Traven soon.

The study also provides a first look at town-by-town data on traffic stops.