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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz

2. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Author, Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist, Feminist

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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz:  For this show we will be talking with our guest Dr. Harriet Fraad, about International Workers' Day, also known as Labor Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor and occurs every year on May 1st. I have also invited her on to talk about the labor movement alone with something I personally need some clarity on and that is the definition of Socialism, Communism and Capitalists and the impacts these movements had on the labor movement and social policies.

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2. Our guest Dr. Harriet Fraad gives us a short history of International Worker's Day oon May 1st to celebrate labor, which is more observed in Europe than in the USA.  The 8-hour day has been championed by labor movements since 1887. Dr. Fraad gives as examples of socialism today in the Scandinavian countries, that holds as paramount the basic human needs of non-toxic food, shelter, warmth, restorative sleep, clean air and clean water, and public health care. Jobs are not outsourced without finding an equivalent job and pay for the workers. Socialism recognizes that unregulated Capitalism loots lives. FDR's New Deal could only happen with movements of the communists, socialists and labor organizing farm and industrial workers as leverage for him to tax the rich at 96.8% or they would lose their factories.  By 1950, 35% of workers were unionized in the USA. That was turned back over the fear of Russian style communism in the 1950s and the relaxing of rules of campaign money influencing political elections. Now, most jobs do not offer a wage to support a family. Indeed, 2 people working for minimum wage cannot afford the rent of an apartment.  When Capitalism fails with its Great Depressions and Recessions, as it systemically often does, Fascism is the dictatorship that arises, which Italy, Germany, Japan and Spain experienced leading to WWII. Dr. Fraad encourages our listeners to become active and join progressive organizations as a collective voice to counter the costly propaganda pushing the deregulation of corporations.

About our Guest:  Dr. Harriet Fraad is a Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been in practice for 46 years. She writes and speaks on the intersection of politics, economics, and personal life in the USA. Her work can be found on her website, harrietfraad.com. Her podcast, Capitalism Hits Home, now with Julianna Forlano can be found at her website, harrietfraad.com, and at Democracy@Work.info as well as on YouTube. Her newest podcast with Max Golding is directed to the psycho-therapy community. It is called “it’s Not Just in Your Head.”
Harriet Fraad appears as a regular guest on Economic Update’s 100 radio stations as well as on The David Feldman Show at 8:00 PM, EST Mondays on WBAI and on the internet. She appears regularly on Women’s Spaces on KBBF, Sonoma County and North San Francisco Bay, Her latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics. NY: Routledge 2019. Dr. Fraad was a founding mother of the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven CT and has been an activist for her entire life.

Guest Links: 

www.harrietfraad.com

Democracy@Work.info

Podcast: It’s Not Just in Your Head

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff https://economicupdate.libsyn.com/

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Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Events:

May 6 – 12 Nurses Week National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale's birthday. These permanent dates enhance planning and position National Nurses Week as an established recognition event.

Herstory Birthdays:

  May 1, 1830 (1930) – Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, labor leader and organizer.

May 1, 1924 – Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University (Yale, 1949).

May 1, 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, named Library of Congress’s Consultant in Poetry (later called Poet Laureate) in 1985.

May 12, 1820 (1910) Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. (from Wikipedia)

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Announcements

Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Day of Action campaign of National Sexual Violence Resource Center: www.nsvrc.org

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Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

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