The Rick Smith Show Full Three Hour Show 8-8-2016

Braddock PA Mayor John Fetterman joins Rick to look back at the conventions and forward to November as election season heats up and hits full stride.  John brings the class war as only he can going after Trump's thin skin and childish behavior.  

Brian Tashman, Senior Research Analyst at People For the American Way joins Rick to explain how extremist right wing conspiracy theories find their way into mainstream media and how that infrastructure has created the Trump monster. 

Chris Ellis, fast food worker and Pittsburgh Fight for $15 leader joins Rick to preview the upcoming National Fight for $15 convention and to talk about what it’s like attempting to provide for a family on $8 an hour and what led him to join the Fight for $15 movement.  

Julian Vasquez Heilig, California NAACP Education Chair, professor, researcher, and blogger joins Rick to discuss the recently proposed NAACP resolution calling for a moratorium on Charter Schools and question where there is any choice for parents in the school choice rhetoric.  

Chuck Pascal, Non-teaching BAT, Bernie delegate, Education advocate joins Rick to talk about the Democratic Party platform and how he and other Sander's delegates fought for sound education reform language to push back against the privatization wing of the party platforms of the past.