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GUEST: John Kay, visiting professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a fellow of St. Johns College, Oxford University. He is also the director of several public companies and a weekly contributor to the Financial Times. His new book is called Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance.

If the objective of our global financial system is to organize the …

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Turkey experienced what is now being seen as the deadliest internal attack in the nation’s modern history last week. At least 95 people were killed and hundreds injured in two suicide bombings at a peace rally in Ankara on …

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GUEST: Diana Zuniga, Statewide Co-Coordinator of Californians United for a Responsible Budget.

Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law Senate Bill 219, championed by state senator Carol Liu. The bill is intended to close loopholes in an earlier law that was aimed at keeping together families broken apart by mass incarceration. Known as the Alternative Custody Act, the law is aimed primarily at mothers. …

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GUEST: Rasheed Ali is an award winning musician, artist, and educator.

The year 2014 may go down as the start of a new chapter in the black struggle for equality and civil rights, with the uprising in Ferguson over the killing of Michael Brown. As police continue to gun down Black Americans, many remember past violence of the United States and how another …

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GUEST: Reyn Leno, Tribal Council Chairman for the Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde in Portland, Oregon.

While most of the US yesterday marked Columbus Day to perpetrate the myth that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, a growing number of cities and states also decided to celebrate it as “Indigenous People’s Day.” The city of Portland, Oregon was the latest to join in the trend.

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GUEST: Sonia Guiñansaca, Artist Network & UndocuWriting Project Coordinator at CultureStrike.

Two major movements of people of color in the United States are joining forces in Oakland this week. A national migrant rights group called CultureStrike is teaming up with Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV) to, in their own words, “respond to the criminalization of migrants and communities of color, and envision a world beyond borders and …

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GUEST: Jorja Leap, faculty member with the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. She is an internationally recognized expert in gangs, violence and crisis intervention, and senior policy advisor on Gangs and Youth Violence for the City and County of Los Angeles. Her earlier book is ‘Jumped In: What Gangs Taught me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption’.

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GUEST: Dr. Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Columbia, and the author of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015.

Women’s bodies are highly policed in today’s society. Pregnant women’s bodies are …

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GUEST: Judge Pamela Alexander, District Court Judge, Fourth Judicial District, Minnesota. Decades ago she attempted to point out that the different sentencing guidelines for powder cocaine and crack cocaine resulted in blacks serving longer sentences than whites.

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Women are increasingly criminalized in our system of mass incarceration. In fact, while the vast majority …

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GUEST: Jack Cole is retired state police lieutenant with the New Jersey state police. He is also the founding member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015.

The first point of interaction that ordinary Americans have that lead them into the prison system is with law enforcement. Police have been trained to behave as …

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