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A range of interesting examples welcome to you africa in Lagos Nigeria among todays stories. Invasive whats a high sense and how they are being put to good use in ghana. And we shed a light on a new trend around in mobility in africa and you wrote. In egypt the bed means i returning to a more sustainable life due to the pandemic stage you know. We start the show focusing on the future of mobility lots and lots of people good whites on motorbike taxes in many countries across africa like nigeria theyre the number one means of transport especially in places like legal us but they are daisy and thats why in the ugandan capital kampala the plan is to switch electric motors and not just for the motor bikes but all kinds of vehicles especially since more and more people finally realize that Transportation Needs to become more eco friendly and sustainable. Francis is one of the few people in uganda driving an electric motor bike. He sees a lot of advantages really who. Claims very well. Ok ha
Im tony woods, it is my pleasure to moderatetonights book talk. With my friends jordan and chris. Its what happens when a liberal and conservative jump into a car and drive across the country and thats the question of this book union by the friends jordan blashek and christopher haugh. Jordan is my coworker, conservative and a former marine. Chris is a democratic speechwriter. The this unlikely pair met at lost and became friends but they couldnt stop arguing about politics and in 2016 those arguments got worse and worse though they decided to take a road trip to see america. They did it again and again. They but union is the story of their friendship and how that union changed the way they see themselves. Its also the story of the people they met and the lessons they learnedabout what it means to be an american. In the end union is a story about hope for a betterfuture and a better united states. Offer a warm virtual welcome to chris and jordan and give you a moment to say hello to th
A little bit of a different take on it i noticed there had been a flurry of books on socialism. Thats no surprise because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in the country theyve collapsed at the end of the 20th century suddenly they tried to take stock of its other unifying theme by and large is the idea that socialism has never worked certainly not for the lack of being tried was tried in the majority of the world. The largest countries in the world, russia, china, india so the issue is that socialism didnt work before and its not going to work now. The verdict of history kind of argument. But the problem is that a lot of young people dont know that history is a house and really ds them. The second part is we are trying a new form of socialism. Its not authoritarian socialism, its democratic socialism. It is scandinavia. Its right there you can see it and we have three types of socialism. Its not just about the racial grievances and gender grievances a
Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz