0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch: commentary on the news of the day, and welcome back Brian.
0:34 – For a historical insight into organizing and mass popular movements, we’re joined by Eric Tang (@UnsettledCity) professor of University of Texas Austin in African and African diaspora studies and Asian American studies. His new book is Fire: The Long Hot Summer of ‘67 Revisited.
1:08 – Mexico’s new president confronts massive crises: Laura Carlsen (@cipamericas) is the Director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy.
1:34 – A New NAFTA? Lori Wallach (@WallachLori) Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch joins us to explain the new deal, which she describes as “incomplete.” There is an opportunity to make gains for workers, the environment, and economic equality, she says, but more work is needed to ensure swift and certain enforcement of the pact’s labor and environmental standards among other essential improvements necessary to stop NAFTA’s ongoing damage to workers and the environment.