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The life of Muhammad Ali has inspired millions, as an example of courage, strength, determination, and love of life. It has also inspired some serious payback. Dave Zirin opines. PLUS! a new poem from Raymond Nat Turner. And labor news from David Bacon. With host Kris Welch.
Today we host a political round table discussion on Hillary Clinton becoming the first woman to be a major party presidential candidate, the Democratic Primary process itself, Donald Trump and feminism. Then, gay and lesbian rights in America with Stephen M. Engel author of the book Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian … Continued
Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her life, her work, her new book, and, for the first time, the University of Utah’s controversial move to fire her from the writing program she created, after she started bringing students to environmental protests. But first: While we were electioning, there was some big news on the … Continued
Jill Stein to Bernie Sanders: Run on the Green Party Ticket & Continue Your Political Revolution; Green Party’s Jill Stein: What We Fear from Donald Trump, We Have Already Seen from Hillary Clinton; Debate: Is Cuomo’s Crackdown on BDS Unconstitutional McCarthyism or a Stand Against Anti-Semitism?; As 13M People Read Stanford Victim’s Letter, Advocates See … Continued
Host/producer Nina Serrano will be rebroadcasting “A Tribute to Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish” Darwish published 30 volumes of poetry and has been described as “ … the essential breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging.” The program features poets: Jack Hirschman, Deema Shihabi, Lenore Weiss and Neeli Cherkovski. Each poet … Continued
As Bernie Sanders lost the States of California and New Jersey last night, and as Hilary Clinton appears to be the nominee for the democratic party; Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton’s administration and a prominent supporter of Bernie Sanders join us for a conversation about of the Sanders campaign and the future of … Continued
How the Clinton-Trump contest works out is going revolve around a question that’s been central to the last two decades of politics here in California – can you get further by rallying votes from immigrants, or from people who hate and fear them? We’ll go over what the voter registration and exit polling data from … Continued
“Historic Moment for Women”: Dolores Huerta on Hillary Clinton Declaring Victory in Democratic Race; Dolores Huerta vs. Norman Solomon: A Debate on Best Path Forward for Democratic Party; “This is Huge”: Voices from Hillary Clinton’s Victory Rally in Brooklyn; Dolores Huerta & Norman Solomon on Trump, Sanders’ Next Steps & Media Coverage of the 2016 … Continued
Special coverage of the California Primary Election results with host Mitch Jeserich. Special in-studio guest Norman Solomon, long-time progressive activist and media critic, co-chair of the Coalition for Grassroots Progress and Robert Reich former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. We’ll also talk to Ruth Coniff, editor-in-chief of the Progressive Magazine and Bill Fletcher, former president of … Continued