Out d'Coup LIVE | Cyril Mychalejko - Progressive columnist for Bucks Courier Times and The Intelligencer | April 5, 2021

<p>On tonight’s program, I am thrilled to welcome Cyril Mychalejko to the show. Cyril is a new progressive columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times & The Intelligencer. His column brings a sorely needed left/progressive voice to the pages of the papers that serve one of the most hotly contested Congressional districts in the state: PA-1. </p> <p>To give you a window into Cyril’s background, let me simply paraphrase from <a href='https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/opinion/2021/03/11/mychalejko-bucks-county-has-progressive-future/6937496002/'>his introductory column for the Courier Times</a>. Cyril is a son of Bucks County. He grew up in Holland, went to St. Bede Elementary School, graduated from Council Rock High School, and went to Bucks County Community College where he edited the student newspaper. He finished college on the West Coast and just kept going after that. His writing, activism, and teaching has taken him all over the country — and the world. He’s organized<a href='http://www.fighting29th.com/archive/2007/09/page/3.html'> anti-Iraq war protests</a> in upstate New York, knocked on doors in Bucks County for former Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy, and campaigned against free trade deals like the <a href='https://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/miamiherald_ftaapoverty.pdf'>FTAA</a> and <a href='https://freepress.org/article/caftas-hollow-reforms'>CAFTA</a> in <a href='https://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/florida/about/'>Florida</a>. He’s also worked as a human rights observer and accompanier in Ecuador monitoring a violent mining conflict, participated in human rights and solidarity delegations in Central America, and taught at an international school in the Kurdish region of Iraq. His writing has also appeared in progressive publications such as <a href='https://truthout.org/articles/fashion-faux-pas-free-trade-and-sweatshop-labor-in-guatemala/'>Truthout</a>, <a href='https://upsidedownworld.org/'>Upside Down World</a>, <a href='https://indypendent.org/'>The Indy