We Can Do This!

Politics
Society & Culture
Government

advocacy
Reid Maki
economic reform
Fascism
workers rights
Womens Rights
Sally Greenberg
John Breyault
Child Labor
food policy
health
National Consumers League
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equity
education
Racism
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consumer rights
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“We Can Do This!” from the National Consumers League, a nonprofit with a 120+ year history advocating for consumers on marketplace and workplace issues.

In each episode, we talk through some of the major cultural issues and public policy battles of today with individuals helping to shape our nation’s social and economic reforms in health, data and privacy, food and nutrition, labor, and finance.

Hosted by NCL Executive Director Sally Greenberg and NCL’s senior policy staff.

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Credits

Paul Woodhull
Sally Greenberg
Taun Sterling
Reid Maki
John Breyault

Indomitable spirits

In this trailer of We Can Do This! you will hear from figures who have paved the way for social and economic reforms as well as those carrying on the fight for an equitable tomorrow. This very special sneak peek of the new podcast from the National Consumers League features two pioneering advocates and attorneys working for women's rights, Judith Lichtman and Marcia Greenberger; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi; and three young women who grew up working in the farm fields of America as child laborers.

1: Two dynamos of women's rights law crashed through the glass ceiling—part 1

Marcia Greenberger, the founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center and Judy Lichtman, president emeritus and senior advisor at the National Partnership, join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a look at how far women have come and the work ahead in the women’s rights movement.

2: Two dynamos of women's rights law crashed through the glass ceiling—part 2

Marcia Greenberger, the founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center and Judy Lichtman, president emeritus and senior advisor at the National Partnership, join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg to continue their look look at how far women have come and the work ahead in the women’s rights movement.

3: Ending the scourge of child labor with Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi—Nobel Peace Prize Laurate and founder of multiple social activist organizations including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, and GoodWeave International—joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition to talk about his journey from local activist to global figure in the fight to end child labor and the state of affairs in the movement.

4: Measles; it ain’t over until it’s over

Dr. Linda Fu, general pediatrician at Children’s National Health System and an associate professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg and Patricia Kelmar, previously NCL’s director of health policy, for a dialogue about vaccines in America and debunk the myths that have stoked the current anti-vaccine sentiment.

5: Sorry, fair pay and a safe workplace aren’t on the menu

Diana Ramirez, Federal Senior Policy Advocate at Restaurant Opportunities Center, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about one of America’s most pervasive sources of inequality: the death of livable wages in the food industry and others.

6: What’s for dinner? Whatever’s in the waste bin

Scott Nash, CEO of MOM’s Organic, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about America’s shocking food waste epidemic, our food system, and the impact that our dinner plates have on the environment.

7: The invisible child laborers in our fields

Norma Flores López, Governance and Development/Collaboration Manager at East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the plight of workers on America’s farms. Joining them are two young women that have worked in fields as child laborers, Araceli and Jazmin.

8: Born too soon; the difference a day makes

Dr. Joia Adele Crear-Perry of the National Birth Equity Collaborative and Dr. Kelle H. Moley of March of Dimes joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about premature births, maternal outcomes, and the societal stressors that disproportionately affect some pregnant women more than others.

*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*

9: Child and forced marriage puts the "lock" in wedlock

Fraidy Reiss, activist and founder/director of Unchained At Last, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the silent scourge of child marriage in America and the continued effort to support women who wish to leave coerced and forced marriages.

*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*