Talkies – August 9, 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.
Featured Episode
This week’s Terra Verde episode lifts the hood on America’s disaster recovery and climate resilience workforce. While these workers are the ones rebuilding our homes after hurricanes or harvesting food during extreme wildfires, they often face inordinate exploitation in these unstable and invisibilized sectors. Pressure to change industry standards is growing with support from organizations … Continued
European Election Results / Capitalism Versus Marriage
This week’s episode features updates on the U.K. and French elections showing dramatic shifts to the left, contradicting U.S. mass media; U.S. self-induced global economic isolation in pursuit of punishing countries doing business with China; and Trump and Biden equally unwilling to solve Social Security’s financial problems by taxing incomes of the rich as Congress … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – August 9, 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).
Media Matters & Haki Nawiri Afrika: On today’s show, I’ll speak to Media Matters Evlondo Cooper on mainstream media’s climate coverage (or lack thereof) during tornado season. We’ll switch gears and catch up w/Leonida Odongo founder of one of Kenya’s premier agroecology organizations Haki Nawiri Afrika.
CA Supreme Upholds Prop 22; Plus, Gender Policing and Racism in Women’s Sports; Phoenix Project Tracks Influence of Tech and Real Estate Billionaires in San Francisco City Politics
0:08 — Cheuk Kwan is author of Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese restaurants around the world. 0:21 — Veena B. Dubal is a Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. 0:33 — Amira Rose Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – August 9, 2024
On today’s show: “New Dawn” in Bangladesh? Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Sworn In as PM After Student Protests “Uncommitted” Co-Chair Layla Elabed on Meeting Kamala Harris, Pressing the Vice President for Arms Embargo on Israel NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home
Background Briefing (5am) – August 9, 2024
Trump’s Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy, and Now He’s Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman We begin with Trump’s press conference today at Mar-a-Lago at which he rambled on about his grievances, starting off with a tirade of child-like petulance that Joe … Continued
Puzzling Evidence – August 9, 2024
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – August 9, 2024
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.