Pushing Limits – February 16, 2024
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
Featured Episode
Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (encore)
Today, we continue celebrating Black history and heritage with a special encore episode honoring an often forgotten civil rights figure, Bayard Rustin. The organizer of the 1963 march on Washington, Rustin was a trusted advisor to labor leader A. Phillip Randolph and to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As a gay man, a pacifist, and a … Continued
Why are farmers protesting in France? / Huge logging scheme disguised as land-back bill
Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week. In the first segment, a French farmer explains the complex politics behind the recent wave of mass protests by farmers, as well as the economic squeeze that government policies impose on them. Next, in a brief “intermission,” Eleanor and Mickey discuss recent failures of corporate media and consider whether old … Continued
Talkies – February 16, 2024
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Terra Verde – February 16, 2024
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice
On this week’s episode, Professor Richard Wolff begins with the increasingly more common corporate threats aimed to force remote workers back to working onsite. He then turns to Ukraine war economics, U.S. versus BGI as anti-Chinese economic nationalism, U.S. escalation of war in the Middle East, and finally a critique of injustices embedded within the … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – February 16, 2024
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
A Look at Hezbollah and How it May Respond to Israel’s Attacks; Plus, Upcoming San Francisco Ballot Measures
0:08 — Joseph Daher is Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute. He is the author of Hezbollah: Political Economy of the Party of God (and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. 0:33 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – February 16, 2024
On today’s show: “Uniquely American Hell”: Kansas City Shooting Highlights Missouri’s Pro-Gun Laws in “Pro-Life” State “I Died That Day in Parkland”: Shotline Uses AI-Generated Voices of Gun Victims to Call Congress Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against WikiLeaks’ Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing “They Were So Close”: Israel Kills Medics … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – February 16, 2024
What is Behind The Republican Head of the House Intel Committee’s Warning of “A Serious National Security Threat”? We begin with Wednesday’s warning from the Republican Chair of the House Intelligence Committee of “a serious national security threat” to the U.S. which apparently has something to do with a possible Russian program to deploy nuclear … Continued