Today on the show: How Trump’s extremism turned the Oath Keepers from keyboard warriors into seditious coup plotters: And we’ll talk to celebrated code-pink truth teller and Global Pease Activist, Medea Benjamin, about the Dangers of the latest US confrontation with Russia over the Ukraine. And we’ll also ask Medea to reflect on the implications … Continued
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Caroline re-hosts Susan Shannon, at this exact mid-Winter, when Persephone lights her candle and begins ascending from the Underworld, and we with her, true Brigid’s Day; one of the 4 cross-quarter holy days, as Mercury, the psycho-pomp Hermes, stations to go forward- outward – tonight… and Pluto arrives at 27 degrees Capricorn- the beginning of … Continued
Art Spiegelman discusses MAUS and the role of comics in education in this 2000 interview with the late Richard A. Lupoff. Honoring Black History Month: A 1983 interview with the late Octavia Butler, with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff. Plus: Reviews of “Freestyle Love Supreme” at ACT’s Geary Theater and “Swept Away” at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theater. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison makes people sick and kills them. Psychiatrist Terry Kupers, from a 2013 interview, on the effects of solitary confinement on mental health. And refinery worker and union VP BK White talks about worker safety and health at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, where workers … Continued
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On today’s show: 0:18 – The San Mateo County Superior Court was recently sued for imposing a $300 civil assessment automatically every time an individual misses a payment or court deadline in their traffic infraction case. Joining us to discuss are Zal Shroff, Senior Racial Justice Attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of … Continued
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