Feb
09
2016
GUEST: Ahlam Muhtaseb, a member of California Scholars for Academic Freedom, Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator at the California State University San Bernardino.
An African American professor at Wheaton College has decided to leave her teaching position there after coming under fire for saying that Christians and Muslims worship the same god. Larycia Hawkins is a tenured professor of political science at the Christian college. As a protest …
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Feb
08
2016
GUEST: Esther Calhoun is a resident of Uniontown, Alabama, and president of Black Belt Citizens for Health & Justice.
The US Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing on Friday to look into the impacts of coal ash disposal in low income communities, and communities of color in the US. Coal ash is a waste by-product of coal-fired power plants and, according to a report by Earthjustice, …
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Feb
08
2016
GUEST: Jeff Cohen is an associate professor of journalism and the director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and former board member of Progressive Democrats of America.
The two remaining candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination held their fifth debate on Thursday evening in New Hampshire. The debate comes ahead of the second primary race …
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Feb
08
2016
GUEST: Chelsea Manning, Iraq war whistleblower, serving a 35-year sentence.
The world’s best-known imprisoned whistleblower, Chelsea Manning, is not afraid to speak out. Serving a 35-year sentence in Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, she has continued to use her high profile to speak out against injustice. Only in her 20s, Manning was convicted of violating the 1917 Espionage Act in sharing classified information about the Iraq …
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Feb
05
2016
GUEST: Samuel R. Gross, the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is also the editor of the university’s National Registry of Exonerations.
Nearly 150 people were exonerated for crimes they were convicted of throughout the United States last year. That number is a record high, as per the National Registry of Exonerations. Even more shocking, the average sentence …
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Feb
05
2016
GUEST: Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit-American filmmaker and Transmedia artist, co-founder of the international women’s media technology collective, Third World Majority.
Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing a criminal trial for contempt of court in an ominous move that reflects an increasingly intolerant atmosphere in the world’s largest democracy. Roy, who is known for her strong progressive views critical of India’s government, could face prison time. …
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Feb
05
2016
GUEST: Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, at the University of Georgia School. She has testified before Congress on postal banking and how poor Americans are forced to resort to payday lenders.
In a 2014 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called for the creation of a public banking system, with the postal service as a foundation. That idea …
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Feb
04
2016
GUEST: Patrick Woodall, Research Director and Senior Policy Advocate for Food & Water Watch, advocate on economic justice issues in Washington, and coauthor of a book on the World Trade Organization.
Representatives from a dozen nations including the US are gathering in Auckland, New Zealand this week to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a complex and very secret trade deal on which the …
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Feb
04
2016
GUEST: Arun Gupta, investigative journalist who has written for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian, The Nation, and Salon. He recently wrote a piece on Raw Story called ‘The Oregon militant leaders are captured or dead — but anger toward the government lives on.’
Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed white militia that occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon for nearly a month, is …
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Feb
04
2016
GUEST: Joy Ann Reid, National Correspondent for MSNBC. She is the former managing editor of TheGrio.com and her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Salon, and more.
After the Iowa caucuses, all eyes are on New Hampshire, the next Primary election race. While Bernie Sanders is set to win there as per his huge lead in poll numbers over his rival Hillary …
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