Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn’t make the headlines. On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll hear about some of the fallen heroes of 2016. Featuring: Joani Blank, founder of Good Vibrations; Carol Queen, Sexologist; Darren Seals, Ferguson activist; Ebony Williams, … Continued
Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy on Israeli Settlements, Kerry, Military Aid & End of Two-State Solution; Ava DuVernay’s Documentary “13th” About Mass Incarceration Shortlisted for an Oscar.
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we speak with activist Pastor McBride about the era of Trump and Fraternal Order of Police. Later we discuss resisting fascism with Xochitl Outlaw and political prisoner and commentator Mumia Abu-Jamal discusses Dylan Roof.
Marga Gomez! Scoop Nisker! Chey Bell! Whether you laugh to keep from crying, or are just in LOTS of denial, you are in for a good measure of the Holy Fool today. YAY!!!! with host Kris Welch.
In this episode we hear an interview with Ethan Michaeli, award-winning author, publisher and journalist. He is the author of the book The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America. Michaeli was a copy editor and investigative reporter at The Defender from 1991 to 1996.
In this episode, Mitch Jeserich speaks with Eileen Markey, a journalist and author of the book A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura, about the killings of three American-Catholic nuns in El Salvador in 1980. Then Cat Brooks speaks with Noura Erakat, an activist, attorney, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University about the Palestinian … Continued
Obama Urged to Take U.S. Nukes Off High Alert Before Trump Takes Office; Scientists Scramble to Protect Decades of Climate Research Before Trump Takes Office; Facing Possible Threats Under Trump, Internet Archive to Build Server in Canada; Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Ask Obama to Exonerate Their Mother in Nuclear Spy Case.
John Kerry delivers a remarkable rebuke to Israel, just before Trump Middle East policy changes everything. PLUS: what’s the future for the Democratic party, and why should progressives care? AND: long a target of the GOP, Social Security faces great danger from the next administration. With host Kris Welch.
In this episode we hear an interview with Chris Lehmann, author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity and the Unmaking of the American Dream, about the history of American Protestantism’s obsession with financial prosperity, megachurches, and Donald Trump’s worship of positive thinking. Then we hear an interview with Gabriel Thompson, a journalist who wrote the … Continued
George W. Bush’s Ethics Lawyer: Trump Will Be in Violation of Constitution on Day One; Report: After Legislative Coup, North Carolina Can No Longer Be Considered a Democracy; CIA Interrogator: At Time of U.S. Invasion, Saddam Hussein Was Focused on Writing Novel, Not WMDs.
