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Hard Knock Radio

300,000 Black Women Pushed Out of the U.S. Labor Force

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Host Davey D convenes SEIU 1021 organizer Jennifer Esteen and Women’s Economic Agenda Project director Ethel Long-Scott to unpack a seismic—and largely ignored—economic gut punch: 300,000 Black women cut from the federal workforce in the first half of 2025. Both guests frame the layoffs as part of a broader, deliberate restructuring—legal, political, and technological—that targets … Continued

Background Briefing

September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it?–Israel Strikes an Allied Country with the Biggest US Base in the Middle East–The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Russian, Chinese and Iranian Disinformation Warfare–

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With a September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it Since They Don’t Negotiate in Good Faith? We begin with the looming September 30th shutdown of the U.S. government. Democratic leadership is inclined to pursue a bipartisan budget agreement — but if … Continued

Planting Medicine

Tree Medicine, Part 2

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Emiliano Lemus and guest host Lizanne Deliz pick back up where they left off, talking about trees! They discuss the medicines of elder, willow, gingko, moringa, and more. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.

Against the Grain

Imperial Migration

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U.S. imperialism has produced migration, sometimes to places you wouldn’t expect. According to Emily Mitchell-Eaton, the Marshall Islands and Arkansas are both central to the workings of empire. The perceptions of longtime residents of demographically transformed cities like Springdale, Arkansas reflect geographical imaginaries that occlude the fact of U.S. empire. Emily Mitchell-Eaton, New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, … Continued