Manufacturing Dissent Since 1996
New interviews throughout the week

Nationalize the Railroads Now / Kari Lyderson

Cuteyellowrr

These 12 Unions got to the point where they were ready to strike and shippers themselves probably didn’t support the strike but going back to April at these very crucial hearings before the Federal board that oversees railroads… their workers and shippers were actually united in their criticisms of the industry, there’s these deep problems that aren’t just about working conditions or workers rights, there are just these really deep fundamental flaws in the power that these major railroad companies have obtained, that really hurts everyone in a lot of ongoing ways.

Journalist Kari Lydersen returns to talk about her In These Times article, "The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads."

Share Tweet Send

 

Kari lydersen photo
Guest

Kari Lydersen


Kari is a Chicago-based reporter, author and journalism instructor specializing in energy, the environment, labor, public health and immigration issues, and the myriad and complicated way such topics intersect.

She aims to show the ground-level impacts of policy, technology and economic developments, including a focus on how the most vulnerable communities are impacted and how they respond through community organizing and other efforts.

Currently she is a lecturer in the graduate program at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University, where she leads the Social Justice & Investigative Specialization and co-direct the  Social Justice News Nexus,, a fellowship program that brings together graduate students and professional reporters.

 

Related Interviews
Claire Provost
May 16 2023
640px corporate greed octopus

How Corporations Overthrew Democracy

Jodi Dean
Oct 17 2022
Ben sutherland   16562901782

Whither the Left / Jodi Dean

More with Kari Lydersen
Kari Lydersen
Sep 28 2022
640px evanston 1876

Reparations In Evanston / Kari Lydersen