Dec 03 2015
GUEST: Simona Sharoni, is a feminist scholar and activist and a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and co-founder of Feminists for Justice in/for Palestine.
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), in a landslide vote of 90% just decided to back the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions or BDS movement against Israeli oppression of Palestinians. …
Dec 03 2015
GUEST: Shannon Gibson teaches International Relations at the University of Southern California, she is heading to Paris shortly for COP21.
Now that the high-profile heads of state have made their pretty speeches to kick off the 2-week COP21 climate meeting in Paris, France, the real work of negotiating a global climate treaty begins. Country representatives are expected to engage in behind-the-scenes horse-trading with poor …
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Dec 02 2015
GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, an award winning journalist and political prisoner.
The Chicago Police Superintendent has resigned in the latest news on the police killing of 17-year old Laquan McDonald. A video of the shooting by officer Jason Van Dyke was recently released, a year after the actual killing. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel asked Superintendent Garry McCarthy for his resignation on Tuesday morning, citing …
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Dec 02 2015
GUEST: Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and directs the Institute’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good. An expert on U.S. inequality, Collins has authored several books, including ’99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It’.
Each year, in September, Forbes Magazine releases its list of the 400 …
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Dec 02 2015
GUEST: Les Leopold, co-founder and Director of the Labor Institute in New York City and author of the award-winning biography, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi.
In our last story with economist Chuck Collins, we heard the latest statistics on how absurdly rich the US’s wealthiest people are. Several questions arise from that: do …
Dec 01 2015
GUEST: Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and Women’s Studies at Penn State University.
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year old Laquan McDonald. The shooting took place over a year ago but dash-cam video of the incident was not released until recently, in response to a reporter’s Freedom of Information Act request. The …
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Dec 01 2015
GUEST: Sonja D. Williams, Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Howard University, winner of three Peabody awards as a radio producer. Her credits include ‘Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions’, and ‘Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was’.
You just heard the opening minutes of Destination Freedom, the pioneering radio program written and hosted by Richard Durham, a man …
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Nov 30 2015
GUEST: Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, also an Executive Board Member of the California Democratic Party.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks, reportedly boasted about the ease with which he snuck into the city alongside refugees, and apparently was planning more attacks on Jewish centers and businesses. Abaaoud was killed during a police raid following the attacks.
Most …
Nov 30 2015
GUEST: Samantha Cook, co-found of SOSBlakAustralia.
Friday November 27th was meant to be the biggest shopping day of the year. But that day has increasingly become a convenient day of protest for a variety of causes including low-wage workers demanding better working conditions, and Black activists boycotting sales over police violence. This past Friday also marked one year since the start of a campaign called sosblakaustralia.
Indigenous …
Nov 30 2015
GUEST: Daphne Wysham, director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in cities around the world as the United Nations Conference of Parties kicked off in Paris, France. There were to be massive demonstrations in Paris demanding a global climate agreement, but in the wake of the recent ISIS attacks there which killed 130 people, French President …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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