Sep 16, 2012
Robin discusses myths and spin from the right on why unions must be destroyed and why teachers are the enemy, and speaks with Ellen Snortland, women's and girls' self-defense advocate and author of the book Beauty Bites Beast; Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers' union whose members will vote today on whether to end their strike; Lynn Povich, author of Good Girls Revolt, a former senior editor at Newsweek and one of the women who successfully sued Newsweek for gender discrimination in the 70s; and Gloria Feldt, women's leadership speaker, author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, and the former head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.