Check out Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, a Jazz Group from Tulsa, Oklahoma!

We played their song “Goodnight Ollie” on today’s show.

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Just two weeks after provincial elections in Quebec, Canada which led to victory for the Parti Quebecois (PQ), Montreal’s student movement is claiming a massive victory: the tuition hikes that thousands of students had been protesting since February have been dismissed, and a draconian law curbing people’s right to protest, passed by the Liberal party, was overturned by the PQ. …

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A riot involving 2,000 workers broke out this past Sunday evening at a Northern Chinese Foxconn factory where components of Apple’s iphone5 are currently being manufactured. Five thousand police officers were sent in to stop the unrest at the Taiyuan plant, according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency.

The rioting, which took place in the dormitory area of the factory …

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“We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.” — Ricardo Flores Magon
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Labeled this election year’s “sleeping giant,” Latino voters in the US are expected to significantly influence the political outcome on November 6th. Changing demographics due to immigration and the failing economy overall reflect a slow but palpable shift away from white American domination.

Latinos are generally concentrated in certain parts of the country. A new survey by the Pew Hispanic …

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We’ll examine the major student victory in Quebec, Canada, where, after many months of strikes, students managed to get their tuition hike repealed. And, what the Foxconn Factory riot means for China’s labor. Plus, award winning journalist and writer Ruben Martinez joins us in studio to discuss his new book Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West. …

“The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all.” — Eve Ensler …

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Protests sprouted up all over Phoenix last week to denounce a controversial part of Arizona’s immigration legislation being referred to as the “show-me-your-papers” provision. It took effect last Tuesday after a federal judge lifted a preliminary injunction issued in 2010, effectively blocking the enforcement of the statute on the streets of Arizona for the past two years.

In 2010, the Supreme …

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Anarchists from around the nation gathered at the Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood on September 8, for the 4th annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair. Alternative publishers, do it yourself printers, artists, musicians and political activists converged on the small park for a day of discussion about the the past present and future of the often-misunderstood philosophy of anarchism. Los Angeles …

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Native American women are being sexually and violently assaulted at shockingly high rates in the United States. According to Justice Department statistics, not only are Native American women ten times more likely to be murdered than other women, one in three report being a victim of rape or attempted rape. An disturbing 86 percent of the cases of sexual violence …

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