Flashpoints – September 1, 2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Featured Episode
The State of Workers’ Rights
On today’s show, we look at the state of workers’ rights in 2025 with Jennifer Esteen, a nurse and SEIU labor leader. Esteen reflects on the shifting landscape of labor rights in the U.S. and beyond—from new protections for workers in places like California, to the growing attacks on unions and collective bargaining nationwide. We … Continued
This Labor Day special examines how Trump and Project 2025 threaten working Americans, fuel unprecedented inequality, and distort the meaning of labor itself—past, present, and future—with insights from labor experts Steven Greenhouse, Sylvia Allegretto, and historian Michael Kazin.
The State of Working America Under Assault From Trump and Project 2025 We begin on this Labor Day with the state of working America which is under assault from Trump and Project 2025 even as Trump’s groveling lackey, the Secretary of Labor, in a cabinet meeting praises her “Dear leader” telling him; “”Mr President, I … Continued
In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, creates more cooperative businesses, better care for communities, and builds wealth for the many, not just the few. This episode features American political economist, historian, and author Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, along … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about firefighting gear that was supposed to be PFAS-free (but turned out not to be), hazardous mercury vapor emanating from school gymnasium floors, and how men, not women, are responsible for at least half of all fertility problems. Then, in an interview recorded a few years … Continued
Womens Magazine – September 1, 2025
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
While we’re told by politicians that the ideas of Karl Marx are foreign and have no place in this country, history proves otherwise. Andrew Hartman shows that Marx and Marxism have had an a significant influence on the United States, from Marx’s journalistic writings for the New York Daily Tribune, on the mass politics of … Continued
Impeach Trump!… Again
Ralph welcomes constitutional scholar, John Bonifaz, co-founder and president of the group “Free Speech for People,” which has launched the non-partisan campaign “Impeach Trump. Again.” Plus, Ralph, Steve, and David discuss Donld Trump’s servile corporatist agenda and his attempt to rig the midterms by ordering Texas to gerrymander him five more districts. Ralph Nader … Continued
Guest: Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Vitvatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cole is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area … Continued
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – September 1, 2025
On Today Show: Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: “My Deep Care for Children Doesn’t Stop at Any Border” Labor Day Special Featuring Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the United States Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.