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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

President and bipartisan group of senators reach infrastructure compromise; DC extends federal eviction moratorium to July 31; Oakland mayor and progressive city council at odds over police funding in budget

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  Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. President Joe Biden reaches infrastructure agreement with bipartisan group of senators. House Speaker to create a house committee to investigate January 6th attack. Tower apartment building in Florida collapses; as many as 100 people missing. CDC … Continued

The Visionary Activist Show

The Visionary Activist Show – Democracy in Chains (and the Keys to Liberation)

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Caroline enthusiastically welcomes Nancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains,” that we may understand the increasing, and long-planned threat to democracy… and the urgency of our Now. Gotta see the long-forged chains, in order to remove them…. Today’s Full Moon’s image is “A party of campers packing their canoe at twilight – the ability to … Continued

Behind the News

Why workers don’t revolt, fighting Amazon in South Africa, the horrors of solitary confinement.

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• Political economist Sam Gindin, author of this piece, talks about competition and the working class • Leslie London, director of Observatory Civic Association in Cape Town, South Africa, on a fight against Amazon. The Facebook page for the campaign is here. • Tana Ganeva, a journalist specializing in criminal justice, talks about the prevalence … Continued

Talkies

Nobuko! Town Crier! Julian Assange!

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Nobuko Miyamoto’s powerful memoir tells of her childhood in WWII American concentration camps with her family, of her successful Broadway and film career, and of her most fulfilling life as an Asian Movement activist artist. PLUS: Julian Assange’s brother tells of Julian’s status and efforts to free him.  PLUS: the one and only Town Crier! … Continued

Letters and Politics

Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation [Re-broadcast]

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Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the … Continued