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This week on CounterSpin: The thing about the US Postal Service: Low-income people get the same service as the rich; rural people get their prescriptions and paychecks and ballots in the same timeframe as those in big cities. The idea has always been that postal service is a public good, not to be mined for profit, and not tiered to give the wealthy yet another leg up. USPS is the second-largest employer in the country, traditionally offering opportunities for people of color—and unlike the number one employer, Walmart, it doesn't subsidize itself by paying wages so low that employees have to also rely on public assistance. That's why it's so worrying that the current leaders of the Postal Service seem intent on driving it into the ground ([link removed]) . We'll talk about the fight for the post office with Lisa Graves, executive director and
editor-in-chief at True North Research

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National Day of Action #TeachTruth October 14

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Also on the show: Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered the FBI to work with local leaders to help address the “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence” against educators and school board members over mask mandates, and also interpretations of critical race theory ([link removed]) , which has been distorted by conservatives ([link removed]) to mean any teaching about racism or systemic inequity in US society. If you didn't know that K–12 teachers and college professors are under visceral attack simply for teaching the unvarnished truth of US history, it might be because somehow many free speech advocates, including in the press corps, haven't taken on this disturbing encroachment on the rights of educators and students. Teachers, however, are fighting back, and a number of groups are planning a Day of
Action on October 14 ([link removed]) to shed light on that fight and what's at stake. We'll hear about that from Stevana Sims, public school counselor in Montclair, New Jersey, and a member of the steering committee of the group Black Lives Matter at School ([link removed]) .

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