Guest host Vylma V celebrates what would’ve been Frantz Fanon’s 92th birthday with Dr. Frank Wilderson, UC Irvine Professor in the Department of African American studies and for the second half of the hour, Vylma discusses the latest in the struggle to end solitary confinement in California with local Bay Area attorney & activist, Anne … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews David Brown author of an intellectual biography of Richard Hofstadter. They talk anti-intellectualism and populism in the US. Then, he is in conversation with Andrew Ervin about his last book: Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed our World.
Progressives are trying hard to push the Democratic Party to the left, as part of a Summer For Progress campaign. On today’s show we’ll speak with Erika Andiola, Political Director of Our Revolution, to find out what the People’s Platform is that her group wants the supposedly liberal party to back. Then, as California extends … Continued
In Venezuela, opposition groups are forming a parallel government and calling a national strike. Those moves come in response to the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro calling for a constituent assembly to re-write the constitution. And it’s all happening against the backdrop of what looks like economic chaos: widespread shortages of basic goods, lines that … Continued
David Cay Johnston: Trump is “Appallingly Ignorant” on Healthcare & Puts Greed Above Human Lives; David Cay Johnston: GOP Budget Redistributes Money to the Rich & Helps Make U.S. a “Police State”; Rights Advocates: Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity Set Up as a Pretext for Voter Suppression; “Trump and the Russian Money Trail”: Trump’s Ties … Continued
In the second hour of The Hear and Now (around 11 p.m.), reeds player Phillip Greenlief and writer Claudia La Rocco talk with host Derk Richardson about their duo Animals & Giraffes, which is releasing its debut CD, July, and performing Wednesday, July 26, as part of the Outsound New Music Summit at the Community Music … Continued
As universities become increasingly infiltrated and transformed by capitalist logics, what do free universities add to the educational, social, and political landscape? Fern Thompsett, a Ph.D. student at McGill University, co-founded a free university in Australia; she’s also researched more than two dozen free university projects in North America. Thompsett describes both the free-of-charge and … Continued
Guest host Vylma V talks with Puerto Rican environmental activist Wilmer Estrada about the current fight against Applied Energy System (AES) in Penuelas Puerto Rico. AES produces over 300,000 tons of ash every year and is dumping much of it an an open land fill in the Penuelas community just 3 miles from the ocean. … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Elisabeth Rosenthal about her book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal was for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at The New York Times before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health … Continued
As the GOP’s dream of repealing the Affordable Care Act is once more deferred with the latest defection of two Republican Senators, we’ll turn today to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund that helps us put US healthcare into an international perspective. My guest will be Eric Schneider, lead author of the study. Then, … Continued
