The Progressive Page Turner

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  • Conversations about books with the people who wrote them. Hosted by Marianne Barisonek
    Copyright 2025 The Progressive Page Turner
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Politics & Government
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Episodes
  • Episode 9: Jaz Brisack - Get on the Job and Organize

    Episode 9: Jaz Brisack - Get on the Job and Organize
    May 9 2025

    The unacknowledged truth about the capitalistic machine we all live in is that it relies on our compliance. When companies freely exploit workers without effective restraint from the government there is still power in grass roots organizing. In their book Get on the Job and Organize: Standing up for a Better Workplace and a Better World Jaz Brisack details the ins and outs of organizing Starbucks workers one coffee shop at a time.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 8: Jerry Avorn - Rethinking Medications

    Episode 8: Jerry Avorn - Rethinking Medications
    Apr 24 2025

    How safe and effective are the drugs we take? Why do Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in other high-income countries? Jerry Avorn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, explains why ineffective, dangerous and overpriced drugs make it through the FDA approval process in his new book Rethinking Medications.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 7: Alan Weisman - Hope Dies Last

    Episode 7: Alan Weisman - Hope Dies Last
    Apr 11 2025

    In his new book Hope Dies Last Alan Weisman documents how people from all over the world are coping with our ecological predicament. The stories range from rewatering the marsh that might have been the Biblical garden of Eden to kelp farming, fusion reactors and other creative and imaginative ways to mitigate past destruction and navigate an uncertain future.

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    30 mins

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