Feb
03
2016
GUEST: Alan Minsky, Program Director at KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, a contributor to Truthdig.com, joining us live from Ames, Iowa.
The Iowa caucuses have been seen as a bell weather of primary races in Presidential elections. Kicking off primary season, the state of Iowa attracts national and even international attention every four years, even as it struggles to pull off extremely complicated “caucusing” in …
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Feb
03
2016
GUEST: Nathan Thompson, is a researcher with the Igarapé Institute, a Rio de Janeiro-based think tank specializing in security and development issues.
Mass protests shook Brazil in mid-January, leading up to the coming Olympics. They center on the hikes to public transportation fares. Echoing similar protests in 2013, they have rocked cities like Sao Paulo, and also prompted repressive responses from government security forces.
But it’s not …
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Feb
03
2016
GUEST: Seth Freed Wessler, Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a contributor to The Nation magazine. His investigation, reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund, with support from the Puffin Foundation, is the cover story of the February 15 edition of the magazine.
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are being held inside privately run federal prisons in the US, and, according to a new, …
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Feb
02
2016
GUEST: Margaret Flowers, Pediatrician based in Maryland, served as congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the board of Healthcare-Now. She is co-director of the group, It’s Our Economy and co-host of Clearing the FOG Radio Show.
The Democratic race for the Presidential nomination has revived the issue of Single Payer healthcare in the media. Because Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is now considered a serious candidate by the …
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Feb
02
2016
GUEST: Greg Jobin-Leeds, Founder and Board chair of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, writer, high school and adult literacy teacher, and author with AgitArte, of the new book, When we Fight We Win! Twenty First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World.
On yesterday’s program we aired part 1 of an in-depth conversation I had with author and activist Greg Jobin-Leeds about …
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Feb
02
2016
GUEST: Corine Fairbanks, Director of the American Indian Movement, Southern California chapter.
On February 6th, 1976, American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier was arrested in Canada and extradited to the United States. He was tried and convicted for the deaths of two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ron Williams, during what has become known as the “Incident at Oglala.”
On June 26th the previous year, Coler and …
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Feb
01
2016
GUEST: Dr. Donald Bucklin, Regional Medical Director for U.S. HealthWorks.
The first confirmed case of Zika virus has been reported in Los Angeles County. Officials around the country are worried about the spread of the virus throughout the US and dozens of people have been confirmed infected in the past few days. Among them is a pregnant woman in New York. Globally there is a serious …
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Feb
01
2016
GUEST: Greg Jobin-Leeds, Founder and Board chair of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, writer, high school and adult literacy teacher, and author with AgitArte, of the new book, ‘When we Fight We Win! Twenty First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World’.
The white armed militia in Oregon and the rise of Donald Trump and his hordes of supporters are enough to …
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Feb
01
2016
GUEST: Juan Felipe Herrera, US poet laureate for 2015-16, first Latino/Chicano to be awarded the honor.
The year 2015 was a huge year for racial justice in the US. Not just in the streets, but in the pages of books. Poetry books to be specific. It was the year that the US for the first time, chose a Poet Laureate for the nation who was Latino/Chicano.
Juan …
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Jan
29
2016
GUEST: Robert Jackson, Senior Fellow – Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Professor of Environmental Earth System Science, been studying on emissions of methane from the leak.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District announced this week that it is suing the Southern California Gas Company over a massive and devastating methane gas leak in Porter Ranch, Southern California. The well, which has been leaking since late …
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