Feb
12
2016
GUEST: Chenjerai Kumanyika is an Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Clemson University in South Carolina. He was one of the men in question who was kicked out of the Trump rally at Clemson.
Fresh from his victory in New Hampshire, Republican front runner Donald Trump headed to South Carolina where the next primary election will be taking place. He spoke at Clemson University where two …
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Feb
12
2016
GUEST: Suyapa Portillo, an Assistant Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, she has a blog on the Huffington Post.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote a letter on February 11th to Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, calling into question the Obama administration’s ramped up deportations of undocumented immigrants, particularly those who fled from Central America. A month ago Sanders had said to Obama directly, “As a …
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Feb
12
2016
GUEST: Plastic Jesus, Los Angeles based artist.
In just a couple of weeks, the 88th Annual Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles, at a ceremony that will be marked by an almost overwhelmingly white cast of nominated actors. Awards Emcee Chris Rock is expected to weigh in comedically on the issue through the televised and highly popular event.
The Academy’s whiteness has become a political …
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Feb
11
2016
GUEST: Jasmine Tucker, senior research analyst at the National Priorities Project, formerly with the National Academy of Social Insurance, where she was the lead author of the groundbreaking study, Strengthening Social Security: What Do Americans Want?
The grey hairs that have sprouted on President Barack Obama’s head over 7 years could well be attributed to his long-drawn out and caustic battles with Republicans in Congress over his …
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Feb
11
2016
GUEST: Gerald Friedman, Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Now that Bernie Sanders has begun to look like a front-runner to the commercial media, his polices are finally being discussed seriously. After all, with so many Americans from across demographic lines supporting him, there’s got to be something to his rhetoric. According to one economist, featured recently on CNN, “Under Sanders, Income and …
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Feb
10
2016
GUEST: Jay Riestenberg, research analyst and principal author of the report, Our Voices, Our Democracy, by Common Cause.
As primary election season gets into full swing with the New Hampshire election yesterday, one issue that comes up again and again, and that can be seen undermining so many other issues, is money in politics. Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizen’s United decision, the disposable dollars of billionaires …
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Feb
10
2016
GUEST: Todd Stenhouse, spokesperson for AFSCME Local 3299.
Much has been made during the primary election about Hillary Clinton’s speaking fees from major Wall Street firms. But her husband, Bill, is also about to be in the spotlight for a speaking event. Workers at the University of California in Berkeley are calling on former President Clinton to respect a speaker’s boycott of their university. Bill and his …
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Feb
10
2016
GUEST: Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. He is the co-author with David Rosner, of ‘Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children’.
Just two days before the New Hampshire primary race, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited the town of Flint, Michigan, where a tragic and entirely preventable man-made …
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Feb
09
2016
GUEST: Joe Lauria, is an international affairs correspondent, who has written for the Consortium News, Middle East Eye and Wall Street Journal, among others, joining us live from Iraq.
The war in Syria rages on, despite world attention and a refugee exodus. United Nations sponsored peace talks, which were set to kick start another round of diplomatic discussions earlier this month, stalled within days. The talks are …
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Feb
09
2016
GUEST: Mimi Kennedy, actor who rose to fame with her role as Abby O’Neil on ABC’s Dharma & Greg. She is also a long-time progressive activist and is currently the advisory board Chair of Progressive Democrats of America.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is getting desperate. Or so it appears, at least according to recent statements by some of her highest profile supporters. In response to the growing popularity …
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