Disability and the Media: Excerpts from a conversation about how Hollywood presents people with disabilities hosted by Santa Barbara’s Independent Living Resource Center Rapid Response Committee. New York-based comic, Mike Cotayo and Florida-based actress singer-songwriter Danielle Hollobaugh talk about their experiences as disabled people in the industry.
In 2019 a well known romance writer began tweeting about other writers in her community and concerns about racism. It led to a huge reckoning within an organization called the Romance Writers of America, which is still unfolding. And although the online debate seemed to be isolated to a specific community of romance writers and … Continued
Historian Peter Kuznick joins Mickey to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie “Oppenheimer.” While his overall evaluation is positive, Kuznick notes that the movie fails to address the crucial fact that there was no military need to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Kuznick also reminds listeners that had Henry Wallace not been replaced as … Continued
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.
This episode of Terra Verde features an interview with Greg King, the author of the recently published book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. The book explores the economic and ideological webs of control over our industrialized society — and how the raw resource of the ancient redwoods provided … Continued
This week’s updates focus on Artificial Intelligence abused by employers as Profiteering Tool; racism in US universities, US-China economic competition, the progressivism of Tony Bennett. Interview with Ben Cohen, co-founder/former CEO of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream on a capitalist’s criticism of US capitalism.
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Join Dave Rosenfeld of Solar Rights Alliance and me in conversation on “Proposed Utility Tax would increase electricity bills for millions, undermine rooftop solar, and discourage conservation” https://solarrights.org/utility-tax-post/
0:08 — Dr. Robert Okin is former chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. He spent two years interviewing people on the street who seemed to have mental disorders; his book about that, just out in its second edition, is SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street.
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
