Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Senator Bernie Sanders demands President’s Build Back Better plan include medicare expansion, White House says it won’t include everything they want. F.D.A. advisory panel approves kid-size Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 5-11 year olds. San Francisco Supervisors introduce … Continued
Today on the Show: Greg Palast joins us for a special report into the ongoing congressional investigation of Trump’s attempt to overthrow the US electoral system and rule by decree. Also hate goes on trial in Charlottesville, and JFK assassination investigators backed up by the Kennedy family are demanding that the Biden Administration follows through … Continued
We speak with professor and author Christopher Emdin about his new book Ratchademics. Later we speak with Deputy Director of The Ella Baker Center Marlene Sanchez and Ashley Chambers about the 25th anniversary of The Ella Baker Center.
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A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, Jovelyn Richards and Jennifer Stone
Join Sarah Holmes for another segment in our series, Honoring our Elders. In this episode, Sarah interviews Doña Enriqueta Contreras Contreras, curandera, midwife and teacher. Doña Queta resides in Oaxaca, Mexico. They are joined by Elisa Marina Alvarado graciously translating. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
William Morris’s designs are still admired and revered, but his radical politics and utopian inclinations are less well known. Michael Robertson discusses the nineteenth-century Englishman’s insistence on craftsmanship, his critiques of industrialism, his turn toward socialism, and his utopian novel News From Nowhere. (Encore presentation.) Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy Princeton University Press, … Continued
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Beth Shapiro is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She is the author of How to Clone a Mammoth, which won the AAAS science writing award, and her latest, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years … Continued
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