Mar
15
2016
GUEST: Jessica Pieklo, Vice President of Law and the Courts at RH Reality Check.
Much is at stake in a Supreme Court case over a Texas abortion law. The nation’s highest court heard oral arguments last week in Whole Women’s Health v. John Hellerstedt. The case challenges the restrictions placed on abortion clinics in Texas under a law called HB2. The law uses medical arguments to restrict …
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Mar
15
2016
GUEST: Arnie Gundersen, on the Board of Directors of Fairewinds Energy Education. He was the recipient of a prestigious Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship for his Masters Degree in nuclear engineering and he holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president.
It has been five years since the magnitude 9 earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami …
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Mar
14
2016
GUEST: Chad Peace, President of Independent Voter Media.
According to Gallup, more than a third of all eligible voters in the US are not affiliated with either the Democratic or the Republican Party. While they can also choose who they want as President in a general election, voting in primaries becomes more complicated. Depending upon the state you live in, independent, or “decline-to-state” voters may or may …
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Mar
14
2016
GUEST: Rosa Clemente, community organizer, freelance journalist, 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, and currently a doctoral candidate in the W.E.B. DuBois Department of AfroAmerican Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is currently on a nationwide tour called If I Were President. Clemente is currently in Los Angeles to stand trial along with six other activists with Black Lives Matter on misdemeanor charges related …
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Mar
14
2016
GUEST: Jasmine Richards is the founder of the Pasadena Chapter of Black Lives Matter.
Richards is facing the harshest charges of any Black Lives Matter activist around the nation. Her case is coming up for trial and she faces multiple misdemeanor charges as well as a dangerous felony charge of “making terrorist threats,” all for exercising her right to politically protest.
Watch a video profile of …
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Mar
11
2016
GUEST: Josie Setzler, member of the organizing team, Witness Against Torture.
Saifullah Paracha is the oldest man being held prisoner at the US-run detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was finally able to make an appearance in front of a review board this week to make the case for his parole.
Dozens of men remain imprisoned in Guantanamo. President Obama had made the closing of the …
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Mar
11
2016
GUEST: Westley Williams and Marianne Raney, McDonalds workers who have walked off their jobs in Florida.
Days ahead of the Florida primary race next Tuesday, fast food workers in the state have walked off their jobs to speak out against low wages and poor working conditions. They want presidential candidates, especially in the GOP, to back their demands for $15 an hour. Workers involved in the struggle …
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Mar
11
2016
GUEST: Erin Aubry Kaplan, long-time Los Angeles based journalist, former staff writer for the LA Weekly and op-ed writer for the LA Times. Her earlier books include ‘Black Talk, Blue Thoughts’, and ‘Walking the Color Line’. Her new book is entitled ‘I [Heart] Obama’.
As President Obama’s 8th year in office unfolds, his tenure is being examined from all sides. Setting aside for a moment, the fact that he is the nation’s …
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Mar
10
2016
GUEST: Ahilan Arulanantham, deputy legal director at the ACLU of Southern California and senior staff attorney at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. He was the ACLU attorney questioning Judge Weil.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released the transcript of a deposition in a case it filed against the federal government over a lack of legal representation of undocumented minors in immigration court. The transcript shows Judge …
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Mar
10
2016
GUEST: Adam Johnson, a contributing writer at Alternet and at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
Bernie Sanders defied all polling expectations on Tuesday night and defeated Hillary Clinton in Michigan, upsetting predictions for the Democratic nomination race. FiveThirtyEight.com, which has made a name for itself in predicting elections, wrote, “Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.”
Most of the …
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