We look at a labor dispute at Bronson Pediatrics that speaks to our political moment of austerity and the squeeze put on both workers and patients in our healthcare system.
An article from GRIID looks at the double standards practiced by a local news outlet when reporting on a story involving the kidnapping of immigrants.
The University of Michigan is in hot water after a Guardian article exposes the exorbitant sum the university spent sending hired goons to surveil on anti-genocide student protestors, and we look at how Santa Ono's centrist flailing between progressive and "anti-woke" warrior has earned him a old pile of nothing.
We spend the rest of the show discussing the uprising to ICE kidnappings in Los Angeles.
2:55- 14:00 Local Pediatrician Claims They Were Fired For Organizing Against Bronson Policy Changes
15:25- 25:00 Local News Station Defers to Power While Doubting Movimiento Cosecha GR
25:35- 39:30 U of M Hired Cartoonish Goons to Stalk and Surveil Anti-Genocide Protesters
39:40- 48:00 Former U of M President Santa Ono Used Pander- It's Not Very Effective...
52:15- 1:18:00 LA Melts the ICE
SOURCES/ FURTHER READING
Fired Kalamazoo pediatrician files defamation lawsuit against Bronson Healthcare https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/06/fired-kalamazoo-pediatrician-files-defamation-lawsuit-against-bronson-healthcare.html
Community shows up to defend immigrants from ICE arrests in Grand Rapids, while GRPD cooperates with ICE https://griid.org/2025/06/05/community-shows-up-to-defend-immigrants-from-ice-arrests-in-grand-rapids-while-grpd-cooperates-with-ice/
Action Alert: Contact WZZM 13 for their unwillingness to believe what Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE had to say about what happened at the ISAP office https://griid.org/2025/06/08/action-alert-contact-wzzm-13-for-their-unwillingness-to-believe-what-movimiento-cosecha-and-gr-rapid-response-to-ice-had-to-say-about-what-happened-at-the-isap-office/
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance
The Ruination of Santa Ono https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ruination-of-santa-ono
ICE Raids in Los Angeles: State Brutality, Popular Resistance, and Class Struggle https://www.leftvoice.org/ice-raids-in-los-angeles-state-brutality-popular-resistance-and-class-struggle/
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