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1) People For The American Way's Director of Leadership programs, Markus Batchelor discuss PFAW's recent "No More Excuses Rally" and direct action protest in support of passage of the John Lewis Civil Rights Advancement Act, as well as the For The People Act in an effort to protect and restore U.S. democracy.

2) Veteran labor journalist, author and Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow Sam Pizzigati, discusses his recent article, "Let's Take the Profit Out of War," written against the backdrop of U.S. war hawks decrying the tumultuous end of America's longest war in Afghanistan.

3) Delmarie Cobb, media political consultant & Jeff Cohen, a founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College and co-founder of RootsAction.org, talks about opposition to President Trump's nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Opponents site Emanuel's role in covering up a Chicago police murder of Black teenager Laquan McDonald, in 2014 -- and his neo-liberal war against a long list of progressive goals, including Medicare for All, a healthcare public option, and his disturbing ties to the healthcare industry and Wall Street.

4) Greg Palast, known for his investigative reports for The Guardian, Rolling Stone and Democracy Now and author of several New York Times bestsellers including “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,” discusses Chevron's prosecution of Steven Donziger, an American attorney who represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous Ecuadorians from the Amazon rainforest in a case against Chevron's environmental damage and health effects caused by the company's oil drilling Donziger has been under house arrest since August 2019 and faces a possible prison sentence.

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