National Politics; A Proposal to Arm Bodega Employees; Labor and 2020; Choosing Surveillance

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 21, 2020

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Domenico Montanaro, NPR's senior political editor/correspondent, previews the Nevada caucuses and discusses other national political news; 
  • New York City Council member Ydanis Rodriguez (Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill) talks about his pitch to make it easier for bodega owners to obtain guns, following the murder of two Bronx deli workers in separate shootings in the span of a week;
  • Jane McAlevey, labor and environmental organizer, post doctoral fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco, 2020), talks about labor’s influence in the Nevada caucuses and how labor issues are playing out among the 2020 field;
  • Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell talks about how Americans are welcoming surveillance devices like Ring and Nest into their homes, and as they can now watch their front doors...babysitters...children and pets all day long... how surveillance has become normalized.

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