Today on Flashpoints: California Governor Jerry Brown declares a state of emergency in response to LA county’s ongoing Aliso Canyon gas leak disaster. Also, more on 12 year old Tamir Rice and the killer cop who murdered him. And we speak to the head of the National Day Labor Organizing Network about the impending ICE … Continued
Some highlights from the past year, including Mitch Monsour on romantic love; Frank Wilderson, III, on Black lives; Maribel Casas-Cortés on precarity; Alex Khasnabish on the middle class; Christopher Newfield on education; and Albena Azmanova on systemic change. For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
With Robert Spitzer, professor of history and political science at the State University of New York at Cortland, and author of many books including Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights (2015) and The Presidency and Public Policy (1983). About the book: In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third … Continued
“Every Time I Think About Those Kids It Gets Me Mad”: Obama Tears Up as He Orders New Gun Control; “A Profound Day”: Mother of Teen Who Was Shot Dead over Loud Music Praises Obama’s Action on Guns; Gun Owners of America vs. American Constitution Society: A Debate on Obama’s Gun Executive Orders; Executive Action: … Continued
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Tonight’s program features everybody’s favorites food, music and a calendar of exciting, meaningful upcoming events! Julieta Kusnir explores Decolonize Your Diet with authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel who are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, … Continued
Lori Bongiorno, author of Green, Greener, Greenest. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Mark Nathan Cohen, PhD professor of anthropology and author of Health and the Rise of Civilization discusses how humans developed as hunter-gatherers and what was lost when they turned to agriculture. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
With Jessica Goad of the Center for Western Priorities and principal author of Going to Extremes: The anti-government extremism behind the growing movement to seize America’s public lands. Then, Jeremy Brecher, author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, on his book Strike!. About Going to Extremes: Last week, armed members of … Continued
Amid Armed Oregon Standoff, Report Finds “Skyrocketing” Number of Anti-Gov’t Militia Groups; Language Matters: #BlackLivesMatter Called “Thugs”; Why Aren’t Oregon Militants Called “Terrorists”? These Aren’t the First Armed Whites to Take Over That Oregon Land: Just Ask the Native Paiute People; “We Have Been Betrayed”: Activist Who Refused to Shake Obama’s Hand Decries Latest Immigration … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Timothy Loehmann, The cop who murdered 12 year old Tamir rice walks free. Using disinformation to justify the Saudi lead war in Yemen. And major corporations moving into Salinas, as ICE continues to crack down
