June 4 – Pushing Back Against Voter Suppression; G-7 Finance Ministers to Meet on Euro Crisis; Chris Hedges on “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”

Full Program

We begin with an update on the voter suppression activities of Republican governors and legislatures that the Department of Justice is finally pushing back against. Wendy Weiser, who directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU discusses efforts underway to re-enfranchise five million eligible voters who have been denied their vote by new Republican laws intended to prevent likely Democratic voters from going to the polls in November.

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Then we discuss Europe’s emergency meeting of the G -7 Finance Ministers taking place on Tuesday to stop a run on the Spanish banks, which has heightened global concerns about euro zone debt in the already-strained 17-nation European currency arrangement. Amy Verdun, the Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Victoria in Canada and co-editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies, assesses whether this latest crisis meeting will finally address the two-year-long on-going crisis.

Then finally Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges discusses his latest book, “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”. This graphic novel is a searing account of the travels of Hedges and cartoonist Joe Sacco through America’s sacrifice zones, where the poorest, most exploited citizens are victims of the unchecked depredations of big business in a contemporary oligarchic system of masters and serfs.