Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas, Executive Director of the Middle East- Children’s alliance joins us for a Gaza update and to talk about a major action MECA is sponsoring later this month. Also we continue our drum-beat reporting on the Homeland Security Sweeps, taking place now across the state and the country: We’ll be … Continued
On this edition of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Congresswoman Lateefah Simon for a timely and urgent conversation about the devastating implications of the recently passed federal spending bill”dubbed by critics as the Big Ugly Bill. Representing Californias newly redrawn 12th Congressional District, Simon pulls no punches in breaking down what … Continued
Trump’s Tough Talk Threatening Russia With a 50 Day Deadline For a Ceasefire We begin with Trump’s Oval Office meeting today with the NATO head Mark Rutte and assess his announcement that he is “very, very unhappy” with Russia and plans to deliver “top-of-the-line” weapons to Ukraine, threatening 100% tariffs on Russia if no ceasefire … Continued
Scientific evidence is increasingly supporting the theory that the Earth is alive and replete with intelligence. In fact, the wild diversity of earthly organisms exhibits the characteristics that human beings attribute to personhood. How is it then, by the law, that a corporation is a person, but nature is not? What if we expand the … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug dedicate the entire program to their interview with the nation’s leading expert on environmental toxins, Dr. Philip Landrigan. Over a career spanning decades, Dr. Landrigan has been out front on efforts to inform the public about the links between common environmental exposure and human health, including groundbreaking … Continued
In a time when Jewish trauma is being weaponized and used to justify the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, the book An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come presents a liberatory model for Jewish healing firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values. In this … Continued
Over the course of two decades, publications of the Industrial Workers of the World featured the influential writings of a hobo, transient worker, columnist, poet, and songwriter named T-Bone Slim. Owen Clayton talks about Slim’s focus on workers’ everyday lives under capitalism, his political stances, his use of humor, and his commitment to worker organizing. … Continued
We begin on a positive note by welcoming a “doer,” citizen extraordinaire, Jon Merryman, who couldn’t stand the trash, especially old tires, being dumped in his neighborhood. So, he took it upon himself to clean it up and has now expanded his efforts across the country. Then co-president of Public Citizen, Robert Weissman, joins us … Continued
Guest: Andrew Delbanco author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.
On Today’s Show: “War on Children”: Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camps Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal in April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going to Stay in Power: NY Times ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor RespondDemocracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news … Continued
