A state measure that could impose penalties against oil companies for price gouging scores an easy win in its first committee vote A nationwide strike by Starbucks workers calls out union busting by the coffee giant A replanting effort at Sequoia National Park after devastating wildfires in 2020 and 2021 California Senator Padilla calls for … Continued
Today on the Show: The Election Crimes Bulletin is back, from Atlanta, to the Miami coast and the halls of Washington, everyone want to know if Trump is going down? And if he does who else goes with him, and what else is in store in the battle to protect the vote? Also we hear … Continued
Davey speaks with investigative reporter and founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Jerry Mitchell about the banning of books across the United States. For more information on the Mississippi Banned Book Festival, log onto https://msbannedbooksfestival.com/
Holy Names University announced that it was closing this term and that the Board intended to “sell to the highest bidder.” We hear details on what that means and the opposition to it from two students and a city council member.
What makes one group of people show up and stand up for another group’s interests? Manijeh Moradian describes how what she calls affects of solidarity spurred Iranian student leftists in the U.S. to become active in Black liberation, Palestine liberation, and other radical movements and struggles of the 1960s and ‘70s. Manijeh Moradian, This Flame … Continued
Guest: David Waldstreicher is a Professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004); In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997), and his latest, The Odyssey of … Continued
