Summary: It's time to take on the corporate power! This week on Talking Left, we focused on how corporate power is harming our nation, and what we need to do to stop it! First, we spoke with Justin Duckham, congressional reporter for Talk Radio News Service. Justin shared his thoughts on why Congress won't pass immigration reform this year - or anything else for that matter - and who that hurts. Of course, the House will attempt to pass the legislation in pieces, which means they'll try to militarize our border before doing anything to help undocumented immigrants. It's obvious that the defense industry is pulling the strings of House Republicans, and nothing will get done unless the corporate masters give their approval. Next we heard from Kyle McCarthy, of StudentDebtCrisis.org. Kyle shared an incredible story about Globe University, and the fact that they are swindling students out of thousands of dollars in exchange for worthless degrees. In addition to covering stories like that, Kyle is always working to bring attention to the massive student debt problem in our nation, and fighting to fix the broken system. After that, we spoke with Maira Sutton, the Global Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This week, Wikileaks released the complete intellectual property rights chapter of the TPP, and it poses a serious risk to free speech. Maira explained how copy right laws and other provisions in the TPP can have a major impact on our rights, and emphasized that this is only one chapter of the monster trade deal. For the sake of our rights, our national sovereignty, and much, much more - we must stop the TPP! Thanks to Rocky Mountain Mike for writing and producing our incredible theme music! Please check out his amazing Sound Cloud! Thanks to We Act Radio - 1480AM WPWC, Radio or Not, and SoFlo Radio - for helping to ensure all listeners have corporate-free, independent radio! And, of course, thanks to you, our listeners, friends, and family - for supporting us through all of our crazy shows, dreams, and political addictions!! You can also follow all of the news about upcoming topics and guests on our Facebook page and on Twitter @TalkingLeft. And you can subscribe to Talking Left free on iTunes and to our awesome new YouTube Channel! As always, thanks for listening!
