Summary: The Perils of Corporate Personhood! This week on Talking Left, we covered a few different stories that highlight the problem with corporate personhood and corporate power! First, we spoke with our friend, Mr. Copaulicus - a teacher, musician, historian, and defender of all things progressive - about the history of minimum wage. As Mr. Copaulicus explained, it took 33 years to enact the first minimum wage, and we can't be discouraged by the uphill battle we're fighting now. Although Mr. Copaulicus doesn't have his own site, you'll be able to catch him on this show often! Next, we heard from Heidi Weber - whistleblower and former dean of Globe University. Heidi was on our show a few months ago explaining her case against Globe for wrongful firing. She was back this week to give us the wonderful news that she won her case, and Globe was even forced to cover her attorney's fees. Heidi's story is a prime example of why there shouldn't be a profit motive in education, and why for-profit colleges need to be regulated - or even outlawed. Last, but certainly not least, we spoke with Dave Saldana, producer and director of the new documentary - "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed!" In conjunction with PR Watch, Dave produced this movie to expose Big Oil's misinformation campaign, and to prove that the pipeline is the wrong idea for the US. As if that documentary didn't expose enough lies, Dave keeps finding more! He was with us this week to explain how the American Petroleum Institute has created an astroturf veterans' organization to claim that vets support the pipeline. Dave proved that Vets4Energy is nothing but a Big Oil front group, and that we shouldn't believe any of the hype about KXL. And, this week we have to give a special shout out to Filter Free Radio, and a big CONGRATS to Jacob Dean and Skeptical Scott for their DC terrestrial radio debut! You can now listen to Filter Free Radio every Sunday at Noon ET on We Act Radio, and of course you can listen anytime at FilterFreeRadio.com! 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! Remember - Talking Left will soon be available on the Progressive Voices Channel on Tune In. We'll let you know when you can tune in to hear the show there. 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! As always, thanks for listening!
