Behind the News: Bolsonaro's Brazil & Alabama Amazon Workers

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Forrest Hylton (https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/people/forrest-hylton) on Bolsonaro's Brazil: disease, chaos, and creeping military dictatorship. Plus: Luis Feliz Leon (https://twitter.com/lfelizleon?lang=en) on organizing Amazon workers in Alabama (Gainesville article here (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/poultry-plant-georgia/); Bessemer, here (https://prospect.org/topics/luis-feliz-leon/)).