The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

May Boeve - Executive Director of 350.org, an international climate change campaign on Break Free, a two-week global wave of action to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Lisa Esposito, Patient Advice reporter at U.S. News & World Report, on the countless ways poverty affects people's health. (Starts at 11:35)

Paul Loeb, founder of the national nonpartisan Campus Election Engagement Project, on why youth voter turnout is at a record low - and what can be done to change that. (Starts at 20:15)

 

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Litigation reporter Alison Frankel on the dark art of corporate secrecy in court (starts at 3:20)

Huffington Post reporter Daniel Marans on Puerto Rico's debt crisis (starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Sarah Spain - SportsCenter Reporter for ESPN on her new video with Julie DiCaro, #MoreThanMean, which features the nasty, bigoted things men say to women reporters on social media. (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Helen Davis Chaitman on her new book, JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook

Lynn Parramore, contributing editor at AlterNet, on why she believes the wealthiest 0.01%, not the 1%, are the real problem. (20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-30-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Ari Rabin-Havt, host of The Agenda, on his recently-released book, “Lies Incorporated: The World of Post Truth Politics" (Starts at 5:05)

Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, on CMD’s recent expose which revealed how a top GOP polling firm worked with the Chamber of Commerce to help defeat initiatives like raising the minimum wage.(Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Wendell Potter on the new book he coauthored, Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It (starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, please enjoy some of our best content of the last few months:

Economist Monique Morrissey on the failings of 401(k)s (Starts at 5:07)


Historian Rick Perlstein on why some Democrats have given up on big ideas.(Starts at 20:16)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, please enjoy some of our best content of the last few months:

The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim on the Hollywood executives who are terrified of offending Donald Trump (Starts at 3:35)

Rashad Robinson of Color of Change on how corporate influence corrupts the Congressional Black Caucus PAC (Starts at 20:13)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, please enjoy some of our best content of the last few months:

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky on the fight to expand Social Security benefits. 

Nancy Altman, co-founder of Social Security Works, debunks Wall Street's latest lies about Social Security. (Starts at 20:15)

 

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT