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#43 - Capitalism and Repression

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Unholy Alliance: State and Corporate Repression

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Regular Show

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Feb. 2, 2001, 10:53 a.m.

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Notes: Government as a tool of wealthy and powerful
interests is nothing new; rather it is the
primary reason that governments exist. If you
don't believe that consider this simple fact:
corporations and plutocrats have caused the
death and emmiseration of millions of people,
yet how many CEO's are there on death row or in
the burgroning prisons of America? Law
enforcement agencies have most often been used
against political dissidents, and as we will
hear tonight, the FBI was created to suppress
radical movements that challenged the
plutocracy. And nothing has changed. Tonight, we
will devote most of the program to a talk by
activist and scholar Ward churchill on the
history of political repression against
movements of equality and freedom in the United
States, Then, a report on a miner's strike in
Ontario, where we can see in a current context,
the same historical dymanics that Churchill
discusses, and, also, what it takes to defeat
this unholy alliance of corporate and state
power. And to close, the facts behind that
swindle called electricity deregulation, which
is now plaging California, and could be coming
to your state soon.

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