Cover to Cover – August 26, 2025
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, and Jovelyn Richards.
Featured Episode
Join Violet Moon as she deep dives into medicinal mushrooms. Violet will speak to the medicinal benefits of different mushrooms, their unique constituents, as well as give instructions for how to best prepare them. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.
Environmentalism of the Injured
For decades after World War Two, the defense industry polluted the desert near Tucson’s Southside and poisoned the aquifer from which the largely Mexican American neighborhood got its drinking water. Sunaura Taylor, who was born there, reflects on lessons from the residents’ struggle — and asks what a genuine remedy might look like. She discusses … Continued
Songs to Obsess Over & Over… August 2025 Edition
interim Music Director Mike Biggz here, with your monthly top 5 songs that I can’t stop obsessing over. Songs to Obsess Over & Over August 2025 Stacy Epps – Feels Like (RE:Source Collab) Stacy Epps is an Atlanta soul singer who first popped up on my radar back in 2008 and hit the scene … Continued
Social media has become a new tool of anti-Palestinian suppression even though these platforms were initially instrumental in advancing the Palestinian struggle. Omar Zahzah joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss Big Tech’s role in Israel’s genocide. His new book is about how digital platforms and technology companies support the Israeli settler-colonial project … Continued
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – August 26, 2025
On Today’s Show: “Time to Cut Ties with Israel”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing “We Must Defeat Fascism”: Chicago Alderman on Trump’s Threat to Deploy Troops to City Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich “Buy Their Way Out of Jail” Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, … Continued
Driven by the Movement: Activists of the Black Power Era w/ JoNina Abron-Ervin
On today’s episode, we speak with former Black Panther newspaper editor JoNina Abron-Ervin about her book Driven by the Movement: Activists of the Black Power Era, a moving account of the often overlooked contributions of local and regional African-American social justice activists of the late 1960’s. Learn more about the book here https://www.akpress.org/driven-by-the-movement.html Our Resistance … Continued
Data Shows US Immigrant Population Declining First Time in 50 Years; Lawsuit to End ICE Arrests at Mandated Court Hearings; Plus, How ICE Tracked Wire Transfers to Spy on Immigrants
00:08 — Stephanie Kramer is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. 00:33 — Amy Belsher is director of Immigrants’ Rights Litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union and worked on the case of Mata Velasquez who was taken by ICE during its new practice of stationing agents outside of immigration courts. 00:45 — Abigail … Continued
Democracy Now! – August 26, 2025
On Today’s Show: “Time to Cut Ties with Israel”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing “We Must Defeat Fascism”: Chicago Alderman on Trump’s Threat to Deploy Troops to City Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich “Buy Their Way Out of Jail” Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, … Continued