As teachers take to the streets especially in red states and in Oklahoma they began their second week of the strike, we talk about the economics of teaching with Sylvia Allegretto.  She is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley. Then we talk to Elizabeth Gillespie … Continued


7:34AM – Monique Judge, columnist and news writer for TheRoot.com, speaks about the police shooting of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man in Brooklyn 8:08AM – Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex Taina Vargas-Edmond – Executive Director of Initiate Justice Dorsey Nunn – Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or … Continued


Sunday Show

Sunday Show – April 8, 2018

In the first hour “Potomac Fever” with Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal and co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice”. In the second hour “Vladimir of the Volga” with Anthony D’Agostino, Prof. of History, San Francisco State Univ., author of “The … Continued


Blues By The Bay

Blues By The Bay – April 7, 2018

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The Blues: highlighting this Afro-American roots art form from its rural country roots to the urban manifestations and regional flavors that encompass the genre. Hosted by Tom Mazzolini.


Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago, and is widely remembered for his speech, ‘I Have a Dream.’ Journalist Gary Younge analyzes the King’s speech, delivered on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, highlighting the day’s tensions, and the importance of remembering the entirety of King’s message and evolution as a … Continued


Trump Escalates Already-Deadly U.S. Border Policies, Ordering National Guard Troops to Mexico; Caravan of Central American Migrants Holds a Mirror to Cruel U.S. Immigration Policy & Imperialism; How the Wireless Industry Convinced the Public Cellphones Are Safe & Cherry-Picked Research on Risks; Seven Plowshares Activists Arrested Protesting at U.S. Nuclear Sub Base.