We know when it started and some of us are willing to guess when it will end.

Are we already fascist? Are we heading that way? Can we stop it? How? Lots of questions, but they all have answers. This is 25 minutes.

On the day before Labor Day, 2025, I spoke at Pathways Unitarian Church in Hurst, Texas. I went on for nearly 45 minutes, but was able to cut it down to 30 minutes for this podcast. I could have made it much shorter by just saying "everybody is screwed if they don't get organized and form coalitions around the labor movement." That is what I said, but I explained it a little bit more fully.

For many years, progressive individuals and organizations have been living in our own isolated silos. Now, faced with dictatorship, we have to learn to build coalitions. Here's 13 minutes with my ideas and experience.

It's getting more important than ever that we learn how to sift out the lies from the information storms we live in. Here's my 8 1/2 minute attempt to help.

Old-timers in today's protest movement tend to think that their days fighting the war in Vietnam was somehow superior to today's protest movement, but they are mistaken. In this 23 minute podcast, I explain how today's protest movement is much more capable of making real change. It's one of the reasons for my optimism even as the nation seems to be sinking into fascism.

I interviewed Justin Chen of AFGE. He's not your granddad's labor leader.

The right to retire is a fairly new concept in America. It didn't just happen nor did it come about as a gift from our loving bosses. It may be true that certain bosses came up with employer-provided pensions, but that was only after Social Security and was an attempt to divided the working class rather than a gift.

The right to retire is based on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. All of them were dreamed up by the labor movement, created by the labor movement, and pushed through legislation by the labor movement. Celebrate July 30 and August 14 with the firm understanding that it was your own working class forebearers who caused them!