Belabored Podcast #15: Renegade Retailers and Education Ideologues

Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Subscribe and rate on iTunes here. Tweet at @dissentmag with #belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Belabored is produced by Natasha Lewis. In the latest episode of the Belabored podcast, Josh and Sarah are joined by the Nation‘s Lee Fang, investigative reporter and author of The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right, for a conversation about the enemy. They discuss the bait-and-switch tactics being used to avoid worker safety accords in Bangladesh, the rise of the online education wing of the corporate education reform movement, and how the whole big-money machine fits together. They also discuss the beginning of hearings over Chicago school closings, the latest at the NLRB, more strikes by low-wage workers, and more. Links for those following along at home: Lee on Bangladesh worker safety accord Lee on Walmart’s ties to weak worker safety protections Josh and Lee on Walmart’s ties to Obama’s budget chief Lee on How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools Pieces We Wish We’d Written: Sarah: Michelle Chen on sex workers’ rights Josh: Chris Geidner on the EEOC and transgender rights. The post Belabored Podcast #15: Renegade Retailers and Education Ideologues appeared first on Dissent Magazine.