America faces the greatest challenges our nation has ever confronted. Extreme wealth inequality, a crippling health and economic crisis, a looming climate catastrophe, and untended wounds from our past keep our democracy in shackles. Listen in with your hosts Richard Dien Winfield and Chris Tidwell in the pursuit of an America Unchained.
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24: Facing the Economic Perils of Climate Change - A Discussion with Steven Rothstein of Ceres
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Steven Rothstein of Ceres Organization joins us to discuss organizing the public and private sectors around sustainability.Av America Unchained
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23: Philosophy, Politics, and Freedom: A Conversation with RDW and Former Graduate Students
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A roundtable conversation between Richard Dien Winfield and some of his former and present graduate students about the relation of philosophy and politics and the role of the philosopher in public life.Av America Unchained
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22: The Coup and Georgia Going Blue
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We cover the historic senate seat flip in Georgia and the shocking attack on Capitol Hill.Av America Unchained
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21: The Crash of the Blue Wave
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We discuss why the 2020 national election failed to produce the predicted Blue Wave and how policy weaknesses of both "centrist" and "progressive" Democrats must be remedied if we are to contend with the perfect storm in which we are engulfed.Av America Unchained
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20: Fight for the Now: Richard Bensigner and RDW on the Future of the Labor Movement
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A discussion between labor organizer Richard Bensinger and RDW on the state of the labor movement and how it relates to the Social Bill of RightsAv America Unchained
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19: Winfield & Tharoor on Globalization and Unemployment
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A conversation with Richard Dein Winfield and Sashi Tharoor regarding the international ripples of the pandemic and how to address it through economic and social rights.Av America Unchained
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18: Winfield & Tcherneva on Guaranteed Jobs
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We are joined by Pavlina R. Tcherneva, author of "The Case for a Job Guarantee", in a live stream to discuss why we need a Federal Job Guarantee and how it can be implemented.Av America Unchained
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17: A Discussion With Noam Chomsky on the Future of American Democracy
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Noam Chomsky joins Richard Dien Winfield to discuss the future of American democracy.Av America Unchained
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We discuss the misleading way in which the terms "capitalism", "socialism", and "communism" figure in recent political discourse and what the proper relation should be between public and private sectors to remake capitalism with a human face and secure our freedoms.Av America Unchained
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15: The Wages of Freedom: How We Fund Our Social Rights
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A bold platform for removing all obstacles to equal opportunity requires a bold funding solution and it is easier to achieve than one might think. We discuss the actual costs of fulfilling our social rights and how they can best be funded.Av America Unchained
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We discuss the meaning and history of reparations, how reparations for Black Americans are warranted, and what they could achieve in connection with enforcement of the social rights agenda.Av America Unchained
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13: Legal Care For All: From Tollbooth “Justice” to Equality Before the Law
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This episode examines how the United States justice system allows money to determine one's legal standing and how legal care can pave the way for genuine equality before the law.Av America Unchained
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12: From Armageddon to Abolition: Exploring the Road to Nuclear Disarmament
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Pairing with last weeks episode as a two episode saga discussing security challenges, the topic this week is nuclear proliferation and disarmament.Av America Unchained
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11: International Remedies to Our Pandemic and Climate Crises
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We examine humanity's increasing vulnerability to pandemics and disastrous climate change and discuss the international actions that we must take to contain these intertwined crises before it is too late.Av America Unchained
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10: Making Voting Rights Count: How We Fix Our Electoral System
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Manipulation of voter eligibility, voter suppression, and now the COVID-19 emergency have stacked on one another to put the basic act of democracy in jeopardy. We discuss the past and present of the shackles on our voting system.Av America Unchained
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9: Labor Unchained: How We Forge Justice at Work
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We examine the role of the employee-employer relation in a free society, how US labor policy has unfairly disempowered employees, and what changes should be made.Av America Unchained
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8: From Open Borders to Walled-In Lockdown: What Our Immigration Policy Has Been and What It Should Be
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To what extent can we call ourselves a nation of immigrants? This episode tracks through the history and the present problems of immigration in America.Av America Unchained
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7: Back to School: COVID-19 and Ensuring the Right to Education
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We discuss the nature of the right to education and explore how America can implement a safe learning environment under COVID-19.Av America Unchained
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6: Guaranteeing Housing in the Time of Pandemic
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With an avalanche of evictions and foreclosures racing towards us, we examine how we are failing to fulfill our fundamental right to decent housing and what we can do to solve our housing crisis.Av America Unchained
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5: Fulfilling the Right to Health Care: From Obamacare to Medicare For All
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This episode tracks the history of healthcare as a human right, the American healthcare quagmire, and where we go from here.Av America Unchained
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4: Overcoming Gender Disadvantage: How We End Systemic Sexism
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This episode examines why gender disadvantage remains entrenched despite the triumphs of the women’s movement and explores the transformative measures needed to achieve true gender equal opportunity.Av America Unchained
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3: Making Black Lives Matter: How We End Police Killings and Systemic Racism
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We discuss the recent protests surrounding police brutality and how we can change the legal system to make black lives matter.Av America Unchained
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2: The Real Right to Work: Federal Job Guarantee or Universal Basic Income
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We discuss the merits and differences of a federal jobs guarantee and universal basic income, particularly in respect to resolving our racial justice, pandemic, and economic crises.Av America Unchained
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1: The Contemporary Crisis: COVID-19, Race, and Social Rights
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