Chokepoint Capitalism

Broadcast on January 25, 2024
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant

This week's show:
Essayist, novelist and activist Cory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism and the threats that Amazon and other huge corporations pose to creative freedom and the wellbeing of authors and the world.

Plus, Elise shares one of her Top 10 Favorite Labor Songs, Labor Notes editor Al Bradbury tells us the story behind her song “Union Conga” and previews this year’s Labor Notes conference; the R.J. Phillips Band remembers the Bread and Roses Strike.

On Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1874; that was the day Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

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