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Investigative journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast: Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across the U.S.

Starbucks Union organizer Aleah Bacetti: Starbucks Continues Anti-Union Tactics to Slow Unionization Drives

Brown University's School of Public Health's Pandemic Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo: Nursing Homes Unprepared for Ongoing Deadly COVID Pandemic

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Ethiopian guards massacred scores of Tigrayan prisoners
• Mexico’s president wants to develop the poorer south
• Tribes fighting for Colorado river water rights

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Afghans for a Better Tomorrow's Arash Azizzada: Afghan-American Community & Allies Demand  Biden Ensure Safety of Afghanistan's Most Vulnerable

Hamline University's David Schultz: Holding Politicians Criminally Accountable for Deadly COVID Policies 

Prison Policy Initiative's Leah Wang: Urgent Need to Improve Basic Standards for Imprisoned Pregnant Women and Their Infants

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
  • Modi engineering electoral Hindu majority in Muslim Kashmir region
  • Rio de Janeiro asks why its cops kill so many black people
  • U.S. declares first water shortage of Colorado River

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Newtown Action Alliance and Newtown Action Alliance Foundation's Po Murray: Atlanta & Boulder Mass Shootings Underscore Urgent Need to Pass Gun Violence Prevention Legislation

Former Supermax prison inmate Sean Sellars and former Department of Correction nurse Kebra Smith: Campaign to End Solitary Confinement in Connecticut Prisons Moves Forward 

Center for Economic and Policy Research's Alexander Main: With Charges Dropped, Popular Former President Lula da Silva May Run Against Bolsonaro in 2022

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Ten years of war have broken Syria into pieces
• The crisis in state governments isn’t the budget
• Over 700 complaints of police abuse filed after protests

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

• American Constitution Society's Caroline Fredrickson: After Trump, Reforms Must be Undertaken to Protect Democracy from Future Autocratic Presidents

• University of Connecticut's Christopher Vials: Resisting Trump-GOP Authoritarianism Requires a Big Tent Coalition

• Honor the Earth's Winona LaDuke: Opponents Organize to Resist Minnesota Approval of Line 3 Pipeline Project

• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
– Russia plans to build  its first naval base — in Sudan
– Will Biden-Harris confront India's Modi on human rights?
– Tyson managers bet money on how many  workers would get COVID

Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET

Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.