Leslie is joined by two great guests on two timely topics.
First, she's joined by Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, a labor organization consisting of 33 unions that together represent workers in all areas of transportation.
Greg gives an analysis of Pete Buttigieg's first congressional hearing as Secretary of Transportation. This includes a discussion of infrastructure, unmet congressional mandates, and more.
The website for the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO is ttd.org and their Twitter handle is @TTDAFLCIO.
Leslie's other guest during this episode is Mansoor Shams, a Muslim American U.S. Marine Veteran, Public Speaker, and a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also the founder of MuslimMarine.org, where he uses his platform to bridge gaps, create cross cultural understanding and counter hate, bigotry, and Islamophobia through education, conversation and dialogue.
They analyze the fact that an AR-15 style weapon has been used in yet another mass shooting (this time in Boulder, Colorado) and Mansoor highlights how similar the AR-15 is to the M-16 he used while in the Marine Corps. They also examine how the weapon used in the Boulder, Colorado shooting was banned in the area, but then just days before the shooting, the assault weapons ban covering that weapon was lifted.Lastly, as a practicing Muslim, Mansoor explains how it was painful to see Islamophobia rear its ugly head after it was discovered that the shooter in Boulder, Colorado had a Arab sounding name, resulting in some condemning the entire religion of Islam.
Mansoor's Twitter handle is @MansoorTShams. The tagline for MuslimMarine.org is “unifying people through conversation."
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