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What's Going On 9/11

Wed, Jan 12, 2022 07:00 AM

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Hosts: WBAI Radio
Topics:
  • Show hosted by Rebecca Myles, follow her work on Twitter at @RebMyles -
  • US/Russia economic and political relations -
  • 20th Anniversary of opening of Guantanamo Bay Prison, demands to close the prison and release all the detainees. -
  • Exploitation of home care works in New York State - wage theft
Synopsis:

Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, and founder and creator of the Center for Political Innovation. Follow him on Twitter - @calebmaupin and on his YouTube channel.

Andy Worthington.  He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. Follow his work on Twitter @GuantanamoAndy

Also joined by New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim, who represents District 40 - Flushing, Queens district. Assemblyman Kim was one of the few democrats who questioned the Cuomo administration’s policy of sending those who had recovered from COVID back into the Nursing home and the subsequent under-reporting of nusing home deaths, now being investigated by New York State Attorney General.

Kim was re-elected to his third term as the representative of the 40th Assembly District in November, 2016. He is the first and only Korean-American ever elected to the New York State Legislature. He is a member of several committees inclu education, housing and is Chair of the Committee on Aging. His office has released a new report on the Nonprofit War on Workers about scandalous practices in nonprofit agencies and their union affilliations in the field of home care work.The report documents wage theft from immigrant women of color approximating $14 million. Follow his work on Twitter @rontkim

https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Ron-Kim/story/100283

Guests:
  • Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, and founder and creator of the Center for Political Innovation. Follow him on Twitter - @calebmaupin and on his YouTube channel.
  • Andy Worthington.  He is the co - founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. He is also the co
  • Also joined by New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim, who represents District 40 - Flushing, Queens district. Assemblyman Kim was one of the few democrats who questioned the Cuomo administration’s policy of sending those who had recovered from COVID back into the Nursing home and the subsequent under
  • Kim was re - elected to his third term as the representative of the 40th Assembly District in November, 2016. He is the first and only Korean
  • https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Ron - Kim/story/100283
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Waltz No. 2 -
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