Womens Magazine – March 25, 2024
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Featured Episode
Against the Grain – March 25, 2024
A radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism.
Hostility to unions, lax environmental regulations, and –- perhaps less obviously –- far flung rural communities: all of these helped give birth to our express-delivery, buy-on-credit economy. Environmental historian Bart Elmore considers the importance of the American South to the genesis, reach, and ecological damage of five outsized corporations: Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Bank of America, … Continued
Apartheid Education / Gas Station Heroin
Legendary public school reform advocate Jonathan Kozol joins us to discuss his latest book, An End To Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America. Then, we do a deep dive into the scourge that is kratom, the dangerous so-called pain-relief supplement that our guest, attorney Matt Wetherington, calls “gas station heroin.” Jonathan Kozol, … Continued
Guest: Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and is currently co-coordinator of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. She is the author of In The Mouth Of The Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost Of Silencing The Press.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – March 25, 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).
Palestine Post w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman and Nadya Tannous; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Brontez Purnell
As we do each Monday, today’s show focuses on the latest news from Palestine. We’re joined by Nora Barrows-Friedman, staff writer and editor at The Electronic Intifada and Nadya Tannous, a community organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is longtime Oakland writer, punk musician, dancer, director and underground legend Brontez … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
00:08 — Anthony D’Agostino, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University. 00:33– Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Democracy Now 6am – March 25, 2024
On today’s show: ISIS-K Claims Credit After 137 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack; Russia Tries to Blame Ukraine As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2 World Ignores Sudan Hunger Crisis; 230,000 Children and Mothers Could Die in Coming Months
Background Briefing (Monday, 5am) – March 25, 2024
The Do-Nothing Congress Descends Into the Chaos Congress We begin with the do-nothing congress now descending into the chaos congress with Marjorie Taylor Greene filing a motion to vacate the speakership, as the House Republican majority hangs by the thread of only a one seat majority thanks to resignations of adult members who can’t stand … Continued